Category: Decolonisation

Rusty chains hang against an orange painted wall.

Educational aid and slavery reparation

by | Jan 15, 2025 |

What level and nature of reparations should be paid by the countries, institutions and descendants of those who perpetuated the Transatlantic Slave Trade to the countries, institutions and descendants of the enslaved? How much is ‘owed’, and on what basis may that be calculated; in what form should such reparations… Read More
Presenters at the UKFIET 2023 conference including Linda Scott

The urgent need for meaningful transformation and decolonisation in South African higher education institutions

by | Oct 27, 2023 | ,

The recent student riots in South African public higher education institutions serve as a stark reminder of the 2015/16 student riots and the #FeesMustFall and #RhodesMustFall movements. Just as they did in the earlier riots, these students in 2023 call for decolonisation of higher education spaces and protest against financial… Read More
A senior rainmaker in the Nganyi community, Obedi Osore Nganyi (right), instructs Reuben Asitwa Okonda, an apprentice, on how to do the pot blowing. During the rainmaking activities, the rainmakers sometimes stay for hours or even days in the shrines and at this point it is normally the work of the assistant to keep them supplied with food and water.

Decolonisation, politics, knowledge and power – interview with convenors of UKFIET conference theme

by and | Feb 28, 2023 | ,

It is the potential to ‘disrupt’ that excites us most about this conference theme – Decolonisation, politics, knowledges and power. The invitation is to engage critically with the colonial matrix of power and the way it operates through knowledge, theory and practice in education and development. Read More
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