Join us on Thursday, 12 November 2026 What if racism does not merely infiltrate knowledge but owns it? The Chair for Critical Studies in Higher Education Transformation (CriSHET) and the Centre for Non-Racialism and Democracy (CANRAD) cordially invite you to the launch of Racism’s Knowledge: Disciplines, Decolonisation and the Renewal of the Academy (2026), Volume 5 in the On Higher Education Transformation series, edited by André Keet and Shirley Anne Tate. At a time of moun

SAVE THE DATE The Intellectual Directions of Higher Education in South Africa A National Webinar on Reimagining the Futures of the University We are pleased to invite you to a national webinar on the intellectual directions of higher education in South Africa, co-hosted by Nelson Mandela University, Rosebank International, the University of the Free State, Higher Education Media Services, and EdNews Africa. As South African universities navigate profound socio-economic, po

The editors invite chapter submissions for the Anthem Handbook on New Directions in Decolonial Theory.

Unfortunately, we have to cancel the 2026 ACUSAfrica Winter school.

We are excited to announce the publication of Racism's Knowledge: Disciplines, Decolonisation and the Renewal of the Academy (2026), edited by Prof André Keet (Nelson Mandela University) and Prof Shirley Anne Tate (University of Alberta). A collection of new and previously published work, the book opens with a provocation that runs through every chapter: What if racism does not merely infiltrate knowledge but owns it? You can purchase the book via African Sun Media, Google Pl

The Call for the 2026 ACUSAfrica Winter School is out and motivations are due 29 May 2026.

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...