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Tax systems in post-colonial Africa need to be reformed. For instance, there ought to be rebates for advancing moral good or educating future taxpayers.
Britain and India may be linked by colonial ties, but India is intent on forging a new relationship based on in its own interests.
A myth is doing serious injustice to the way historians have approached decolonisation.
Muslim women are often criticised for their lack of political involvement, but Algerian women have embraced both anti-colonial and feminist movements.
‘African Guernica’ is an incredibly powerful work of art in many ways, importantly filling that space between the visible and the visible.
Schools and universities in post-colonial contexts still operate within the logic of coloniality. This is starkly illustrated by their language policies.
Decolonising the curriculum is far more nuanced than replacing theorists and authors. Universities first need to define how they approach the development and dissemination of curricula.
Sydney’s Garden Palace, which burned to the ground in 1882, was a monument to empire’s glory. Indigenous artist Jonathan Jones is now working on an epic exhibition that will explore this historical epoch from an Aboriginal perspective.
In South Africa there’s a value judgment attached to students who take part in universities’ English for Academic Purposes programmes. This shouldn’t be the case.
The lessons Paulo Freire learnt nearly 90 years ago and the theories he developed from painful personal experience still resonate across Africa’s schooling systems today.
Decolonisation of the curriculum doesn’t have to mean the destruction of Western knowledge, but it’s decentring. Such knowledge should become one way of knowing rather than the only way.
Curriculum transformation has to happen. But it has to go further than simply borrowing ideas and concepts.
Africa has been called a “consumer continent” by many, but in reality much of what its people consume is produced elsewhere. Technology is key to Africa becoming a self-reliant producer of goods.
Utopianism is a neglected prism through which to view Africa. It is the space where the intricacies of decolonisation and independence can be properly comprehended.
It is normal for resistance movements to adopt rough survival strategies and techniques while fighting an oppressive regime. Unfortunately that culture takes root and is permanently nurtured.
South Africa’s educational policies and curricula tend to be biased against rural lifestyles - even though nearly 20 million people live in the country’s rural areas.
A curriculum can’t be decolonised by simply removing content. This denies students the chance to participate in local policy debates and the global job market. A more nuanced approach is needed.
Top contributors
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Professor of English Language Teaching and Literacy Development, Rhodes University
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Emeritus Professor of African Linguistics, University of Leipzig
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Director of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies and Professor of British and Commonwealth History, School of Advanced Study, University of London
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Author and Research Fellow, UNSW Sydney
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Director: UCT eResearch, University of Cape Town
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Professor, Department of Economics, Stellenbosch University
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Senior Lecturer, Applied Language and Literacy Studies, University of Cape Town
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Associate professor, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor in Language Education, member bua-lit collective, University of Cape Town
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Monash Intercultural Lab and National Convenor of the Asian Australian Studies Research Network, Monash University
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Professor and Head of Department of Political and Conflict Studies, Nelson Mandela University
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SARCHI Ocean Cultures and Heritage, Nelson Mandela University
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Professor of Philosophy of Science, Durham University
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Associate of the Gordon Institute for Business Science, University of Pretoria
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Lecturer in Politics, Aston University
