Arshad Nadeem's gold medal victory at the Paris Olympics 2024 provided a rare moment of collective joy as the country celebrated its 77th Independence Day. This festivity unfolded against a backdrop ...

Ideas matter. But many people seem not to think so. This explains the continued promotion, even now, especially now, of the classic two-state solution which believes – despite competing ...

It is easy to blame government, but in order to receive something one must ask for it. When we call for decolonisation do we know what we are demanding? Too often we confuse different aspects of what ...

Research Associate in Higher Education Policy and Planning, Ali Mazrui Centre for Higher Education Studies, University of Johannesburg When South African students launched the “Rhodes Must Fall” ...

Something pernicious is spreading across our universities, seats of learning that are supposed to be bastions of free inquiry. Expressing dissent has never been more difficult as a sinister new creed ...

Expanded reading lists do little for the student whose visa is denied because there’s not enough money in their parents’ bank account, says Farish A Noor Decolonisation has become a feature of ...

The colonization of Africa was an extractive project driven by a lust for resources. The extraction was done with notable brutality in parts of central Africa and with a distinct lack of sentiment ...

The International Court of Justice holds hearings on the Legal consequences of the Separation of the Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius in 1965 In a non-binding opinion issued on Monday, the World ...

Advice on decolonising the curriculum across different disciplines and unpicking the impact of colonial and Western power structures on higher education and models of teaching and learning. These ...

Emmanuel Mgqwashu receives funding from National Research Foundation. My concern with grand narratives such as “decolonisation” is that they tend to silence what I would call “local narratives”. They ...