Something pernicious is spreading across our universities, seats of learning that are supposed to be bastions of free inquiry. Expressing dissent has never been more difficult as a sinister new creed ...

Arshad Nadeem's gold medal victory at the Paris Olympics 2024 provided a rare moment of collective joy as the country celebrated its 77th Independence Day. This festivity unfolded against a backdrop ...

The colonization of Africa was an extractive project driven by a lust for resources. The extraction was done with notable brutality in parts of central Africa and with a distinct lack of sentiment ...

Shanade Bianca Barnabas received funding from the National Research Foundation during her PhD research. In 2015 the decolonisation debate, epitomised by the #RhodesMustFall campaign, took centre stage ...

Decolonisation has become a feature of academic life in many institutions of higher learning in North America and western Europe over the past few decades, and from the outset I would state that this ...

Research Associate in Higher Education Policy and Planning, Ali Mazrui Centre for Higher Education Studies, University of Johannesburg When South African students launched the “Rhodes Must Fall” ...

Straying from its intended goal, the discourse around decolonisation devolved into a series of battlegrounds for the imposition of fresh hegemonies by the central government in the name of ...

The long-term effects of chemical weapons such as Agent Orange mean that the impact of war lasts well beyond a ceasefire THE number of writers and researchers from Western powers addressing ...

To date, decolonisation in UK higher education has been patchy, misunderstood and, in some cases, misused as institutions struggle to address the questions thrown up by it. Too often the conversation ...

Speaking of “decolonisation” conjures memories of the 1950s and the wave of new nations that emerged, particularly in Africa, as European colonialism gave way to calls for emancipation in the ...