Is Africa a Dissimilar System? Oxford Africa Society 2019 Annual Lecture Discussion
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Africa Oxford Initiative
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The discussion after the lecture, with an international guest panel on decolonising education and reimagining the higher education space in Africa and the Diaspora. The panel includes environmental justice activist, Running Grass, higher education specialist, Sizwe Mkwanazi and the women behind South Africa’s largest protest since the fall of apartheid, Shaeera Kalla and Nompendulo Mkatshwa.
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