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Qunta advocates a reparations fund to accelerate corrective policies, that schools be freed from colonial indoctrination and that African culture should be mainstreamed, especially African languages.
Women students have not been afraid to embrace the label of feminist, leading a wave of university protests in South Africa during 2015 and 2016.
Forty years after the students uprisings of 1976, South Africa is again in the midst of a political movement led by students.They have changed the tenor and shape of political discussion around education.
For the revolutionary Frantz Fanon it was not enough to celebrate the achievements of decolonisation. It was necessary to educate, to strain at the limits of national freedom and to provoke debate.
If South Africans are to make the radical changes they must to become truly great, the new generation will have to find a way of understanding the country’s past in its profound complexity.
Two narratives have emerged from student protests in South Africa: reform on the one hand - and revolution on the other. Which narrative will triumph?
Is there a place for Shakespeare in African schools, or is his time long past?
Franz Fanon’s writings were forged in the crucible of the Algerian liberation war which inspired struggles against racism and colonialism around the world. Half a century on, he continues to inspire.
The late Black Consciousness leader Steve Biko and political philosophers Frantz Fanon and Achille Mbembe top the list of writers who get routinely abducted by discerning pirates of the book world.
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Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, Emerson College
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Distinguished Reserach Professor, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Research fellow, University of the Free State
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Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London
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Professor of Psychology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate professor, University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate Professor in Politics, Rhodes University
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Associate Professor in Philosophy, Australian Catholic University
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Lecturer in Political Science, Nelson Mandela University
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Professor of African Literature, University of the Witwatersrand
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Assistant Professor in the history of Southern Africa, Durham University
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Associate Professor, School of Education, Aarhus University
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South African visual artist and senior lecturer of Art History and Visual Culture at Rhodes University, Rhodes University
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Assistant Professor of Psychology, Antioch College
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Professor of Political Science and Chair of the South African Research Initiative in Gender Politics, Stellenbosch University
