The agenda to decolonise knowledge in Africa among topics at Archie Mafeje Memorial Lecture
The Deputy Minister of Higher Education, Science and Innovation, Mr Buti Manamela, will address the virtual Archie Mafeje Memorial Lecture event on Friday, 4 June, focusing on the intellectual's theories on Africans and science and innovation.
Prof. Mafeje was a respected African intellectual who critically engaged the position of Africans as knowledge producers in the global space. The legacy of colonialism included controlling not only political and economic power structures, but also natural resources and knowledge about Africa and its people. This skewed production of knowledge on Africa was one of the issues that led to Mafeje's interest in African political and intellectual self-determination, emancipation and self-understanding.
The lecture will interrogate the desire to and possibility of pursuing ideologies and theories about Africa's development, and to promote self-determination of Africa by Africans without foregoing the historicity that informs its present realities.
Other speakers include Prof. Adebayo Olukoshi, a distinguished researcher at the University of the Witwatersrand, who will speak on Archie Mafeje and the agenda to decolonize knowledge in Africa.
Details of the event:
Date: Friday, 4 June 2021
Time: 09:00 – 12:00
Link: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_dvbZGA0YTWaej7VxNIKcZg
Issued by the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Innovation and the Human Sciences Research Council.
For more information, contact Veronica Mohapeloa at 083 400 5750 or Adziliwi Nematandani at 082 765 9191 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
