In an interview published in Esprit, Achille Mbembe asks “what is 'today', and what are we
today? What are the lines of fragility, the lines of precariousness, the fissures in …

In recent years, higher education in Africa has emerged as a critical link to economic
development, political agendas, social desires, national reconstruction moves and social …

In a review of Coetzee's White Writing (1988) and Gordimer's Essential Gesture (1988),
Lewis Nkosi (1989) highlights fundamental deficits in South African literature. Owing to …

The 'Africanisation'of higher education is generally understood (Moulder, 1995; Pityana,
2004) to involve institutional transformation, and more specifically 'decolonisation'of higher …

Widespread calls to develop modes of teaching and learning in higher education for a
paradigm of complexity recognize higher education's double task; namely, to graduate …

Thank you for the kind invitation to deliver this lecture as part of the University of Pretoria's
Public Lecture Series on Curriculum Transformation Matters: The Decolonial Turn. The title …

The argument is made that attempts at decolonising higher education as a transformative
project in an era of a toxic, exponentially strengthening neoliberal performativity is inherently …

While Africanisation remains a popular idiom for intellectual decolonisation, it raises difficult
issues around citizenship, identity and belonging, alongside their constitutive dynamics of …

This article is based on an address that I presented at the Higher Education Close Up
(HECU 9, 2018) conference in Cape Town recently. It is intended as an invitation for …

One central facet of the ideal of transformation in South African higher education institutions
(HEIs), at least for many self-described adherents to it, is Africanisation. Africanisation, in …