In this reflective piece, Dr Joseph Besigye Bazirake traces the intellectual, institutional, and personal journey that culminated in the book Higher Education Institutional Change: Perspectives from South Africa (2025), published by Palgrave MacMillan. Drawing on his experiences as a student, researcher, and scholar working within South African higher education, Dr Bazirake offers an insider’s account of how questions of history, inequality, and institutional change came to

What does it mean to think science through the lens of Mandela? Can we imagine a Mandela-inflected physics? Oceanography? Medicine? These...

On 10 April 2025 , a thought-provoking hybrid book launch was held at the South End Museum in Gqeberha  to launch Predicaments of...

Nelson Mandela University invites you to a hybrid seminar on Mandela & Science.

Join us for the launch of Predicaments of Knowledge: Decolonisation and Deracialisation in Universities  by Suren Pillay , a...

The Anti-Racism Lab will be hosting a series of lectures and workshops on the topic of Researching Race on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th of April...

We are pleased to announce that Emancipatory Imaginations: Advancing Critical University Studies  is now available. Edited by Dina Zoe...

The ACUSAfrica Conference 2024 at Makerere University, Kampala, was more than just a gathering; it was a space of critical engagement,...

The Anti-Racism Lab is thrilled to announce the inaugural workshop of the Researching Race Doctoral Series , an initiative dedicated to...

Nelson Mandela University is pleased to invite you to an engaging hybrid inter-university workshop titled, Critical Sustainability...

We’re thrilled to invite you to the " Kollektiv Omsorg: Collective Care as Black Feminist Praxis Within, Outside , and Against the...

This special issue, titled " Decolonizing the University: A Route to Intersectional (In)Equity? ", prioritizes a Black-Indigenous...

Join the Opening Plenary of the 2024 ACUSAfrica Conference , hosted by Makerere University, today, 16 October 2024 , at 14h00 (UCT+3). ...

We are happy to announce that the full report from the workshop series on Decolonisation in Context is now available. This collaborative...

We are excited to announce the release of a new video capturing our two-day hybrid workshop, " Decentred Critical University Studies in a...

Seminar One The Political Economy of South African Higher Education Nelson Mandela University's Council Seminar Series kicked off with...