Slave memorial in Zanzibar. Eye Ubiquitous/Universal Images Group via Getty Images September 13, 2020 Black Lives Matter but slavery isn’t our only narrative Aretha Phiri, Rhodes University and Michelle M Wright, Emory University Black Lives Matter brings the slavery story into the present in America – but it leaves Africa stuck in the past.
Student protests dubbed #FeesMustFall in 2016 in Pretoria. Cornel van Heerden/Foto24/Gallo Images/Getty Images July 15, 2020 On decolonising teaching practices, not just the syllabus Aretha Phiri, Rhodes University and Danai Mupotsa, University of the Witwatersrand An African literature lecturer shares how embodied teaching can help students feel that their lives and stories matter.
Shutterstock May 27, 2020 Black and queer women invite the Black Atlantic into the 21st century Aretha Phiri, Rhodes University A group of leading black, queer and feminist academics held a colloquium to reconsider a seminal blackness studies text – offering new ways of thinking about the decolonial project.