Browsing Journals by Subject "Decoloniality"
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A decolonial "African mode of self-writing": The case of Chinua Achebe in Things fall apart.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2014)Against a background of arguments that Africa does not possess powerful modes of self-expression, the present paper explores Chinua Achebe’s Afrocentric literary vision that became his crowning reaction to colonialist ... -
Decolonising images? The liberation script in Mozambican history textbooks
(The South African Society forHistory Teaching (SASHT) under the patronage of the North-West University, 2020)In this article we examine the textbook narratives of the colonial past and the nation-building process in Mozambique, a Southern African country which gained its independence in 1975. One of the priorities after independence ... -
Fallism as Decoloniality: Towards a Decolonised School History Curriculum in Post-colonial-apartheid South Africa
(South African Society for History Teaching (SASHT) under the patronage of the Department of Humanities Education in the Faculty of Education at the University of Pretoria, 2021)The 2015/16 student protests in South Africa, dubbed #MustFall protests, signalled a historic moment in the country’s post-colonial-apartheid history in which student-worker collaborations called for the decolonising of ... -
Gender conversations in Zimbabwe: A precursor of male gaze in visual art practices
(AOSIS, 2020)Masculine hegemonic predisposition dominates the gender culture in Zimbabwe. From this perspective, the notion of the male gaze entails that visual interpretation, amongst other things, at encoding and decoding levels ... -
Mobilising History for nation-building in South Africa: A decolonial perspective.
(The South African Society for History Teaching (SASHT) under the auspices of the School of Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2013)One of the greatest challenges facing people in the process of becoming South Africans today is that of building a cohesive national identity out of diverse and competing national, cultural and ethnic aspirations and ... -
Philosophers’ debt to their students : the South African case
(AOSIS, 2020)Philosophy teachers owe their students a little more than mere formal instruction of topics popular in philosophy. What they owe their students is largely influenced by philosophy’s claims to be a discipline that is ... -
A reflective analysis of articles published in the journal of Transformation in Higher Education (2016–2020) : beyond transformation?
(AOSIS, 2020)Background: The fault lines exposed by the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and global economic recession unfolding during 2020 in societies around the world, reiterated the need for transforming higher education ... -
Silenced and Invisible Historical Figures in Zambia: An Analysis of the Visual Portrayal of Women in Senior Secondary School History Textbooks
(South African Society for History Teaching (SASHT) under the patronage of the Department of Humanities Education in the Faculty of Education at the University of Pretoria, 2021)Despite their significant contribution to the country’s historical development, women’s influence is commonly underestimated and ignored in Zambian history literature. Subsequently, their role remains undocumented in ...