Participants: Khanyisile Mbongwa (Master's degree student at UCT and affiliated with the Centre for Humanities Research, UWC ); Sive Shosha (undergraduate law student, UWC); Xolani Zekani (post-graduate student, UWC); Mina Ezikpe (Duke Alumna and...

Student and academic activists from South Africa will discuss challenges faced during Fees Must Fall protests, and the ongoing question of the decolonisation of education in South Africa and globally. The relation of the protests to place, gender...

Tinashe Mushakavanhu presents a timeline of literary production in Zimbabwe, focusing on 3 critical waves that have shaped the country's black writing and intellectual traditions. Although Zimbabwean writers have longed for a secure place within...

In an era of diminishing public life and an ever-expanding private sphere, longstanding feminist conversations about the relationship between public and private, between personal and political, and between structural and intimate violence are...

In 2015, students marched in Durham in solidarity with #FeesMustFallactivists in Johannesburg. They show us that South African movements like #RhodesMustFall and #FeesMustFall are not restricted to national politics, but speak to the concerns of...

Lying deep in the belly of Southern Africa, Great Zimbabwe is an ancient city and UNESCO World Heritage site. Known locally for as long as it existed, the first westerners to discover Great Zimbabwe argued that the local Shona people could not...

From 1952 to 1981, South Africa’s white supremacist government ran an art school at Ndaleni for the training of black art teachers. It was by far the single largest art school on the African continent during the years of its operation. This talk...