Listen to this episode on Spotify, Apple podcasts or Google podcasts. Decolonisation has become a lightning rod for critics who accuse universities and colleges of being full of liberal ideologues, ...
Colonisation is invasion: a group of people taking over the land and imposing their own culture on Indigenous people. Modern colonisation dates back to the Age of Discovery in the 15th century, as ...
South Africa was hit by an unprecedented wave of student protests against fee hikes, racism and for the decolonisation of curriculum. Reuters/Mike Hutchings In 2015 the decolonisation debate, ...
Expanded reading lists do little for the student whose visa is denied because there’s not enough money in their parents’ bank account, says Farish A Noor Decolonisation has become a feature of ...
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 ...
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 ...
Cornell University, an elite Ivy League institution in upstate New York, made history in early September when its English department became the first in the United States to change its name to reflect ...
Decolonisation has become an uncritical and condescending buzzword used to police what it means to be African, argues a sharp new book. Does decolonisation, as an intellectual project, harm ...
The problems of our times, such as lack of unity, a dysfunctional education system, chronic underdevelopment, and poverty are rooted in the use of religion as part of Britain’s civilising process ...
Many British universities have sought to liberate their courses from ‘white, Western and Eurocentric’ knowledge Craig Simpson is Arts Correspondent for The Telegraph covering the major issues ...
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