In 2015 and 2016 students at South African universities campaigned under the banner #FeesMustFall for the abolition of tuition fees. It was widely reported that students were pushing for far-reaching change: Twenty-five years after the end of apartheid rule they were calling for the decolonisation of the country’s education …
Is another knowledge production of Africa possible? My essay on this topic has been published at the New York-based blog "Africa is a country."
Read my essay "What is the point of African Studies?". It is an edited post that first appeared on the Review of African Political Economy.
Namibia has seen an unprecedented outpouring of grief following the death of liberation struggle hero Andimba Toivo Ya Toivo on 9 June 2017. Toivo was part of a generation that bore Southern Africa’s long struggles against apartheid and colonialism. The article gives a brief biography of this inspiring man …
In the first installment of the interview Reinhart Kößler speaks about the history of solidarity activism with the liberation struggles of Southern Africa in the former West Germany. He draws partly on his personal experience as an activist. In the second installment, Heike Becker and Reinhart Kößler discuss issues of …
Special Issue of Journal of African Cultural Studies
Edited by Heike Becker & Dorothea Schulz
This volume starts from the observation of a massive revival of cultural and religious identities across the African continent, stretching from post-apartheid South Africa to Islamist groups in parts of West Africa. Africa appears to be …