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Join us on Mondays from 4pm-6pm for The African Studies Workshop! The presenters' papers explore Africa’s changing place in the world - and the new economies, legalities, socialities, and cultural forms that have arisen there. We shall also interrogate the claim that the African present is a foreshadowing of processes beginning to occur elsewhere across the globe; that, therefore, it is a productive source of theory and analysis about current conditions worldwide. At each workshop, a scholar presents a paper on one facet of the rapidly changing position of Africa in the global political economy and the impact of that change on global distributions of wealth, well-being, and power.
Presenting: Can Iqaba Possess Ontological Legitimacy? An Analysis of Blackness as Indigenously Located in Africa
Siseko H. Kumalo, is a Lecturer at the University of Fort Hare’s Philosophy Department and is completing his PhD wherein he interrogates belonging and national identity in South Africa. Siseko is a Mail & Guardian Top 200 Young South African, 2020 (in the category of Education) and holds a Master of Arts (Cum Laude) in Political Philosophy from the University of Pretoria’s Department of Political Sciences. He received his formative training from Rhodes University where he read in Political and International Studies, Anthropology, and Philosophy. His research and teaching interests centre around themes of education decolonisation in the South African academy. He served as the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Decolonising Disciplines and has presented his research at world-leading institutions. He has spoken at Duke University’s (USA) Centre for International and Global Studies and further lectured at Karolinska Institutet (Sweden), under their masters in Global Health, teaching on the subject of decolonising Global Health. Siseko has edited Decolonisation as Democratisation: Global Insights into the South African Experience (HSRC Press), co-edited Decolonising Curricula and Pedagogy in Higher Education (Routledge, UK), along with University on the Border: Crisis of Authority and Precarity (SUN Media Press). He serves on the Editorial Collective of Stilet, the Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Association as well as the Literary Association of South Africa’s Executive Committee. Siseko is a Mandela Rhodes Scholar (2017).
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