VIDEO: Decolonisation and Deracialisation in Universities by Suren Pillay

On 10 April 2025, a thought-provoking hybrid book launch was held at the South End Museum in Gqeberha to launch Predicaments of Knowledge: Decolonisation and Deracialisation in Universities (2024) by Suren Pillay. This launch sparked critical conversations on the future of knowledge in post-apartheid South Africa, from the tensions between Africanisation, decolonisation, and deracialisation, to the politics of curriculum and language.

Suren Pillay in conversation with Verne Harris

The recording of the book launch is now available to stream on YouTube.

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A collaboration between the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) and Nelson Mandela University’s Transdisciplinary Institute for Mandela Studies (TIMS), Chair for Critical Studies in Higher Education Transformation (CriSHET) and the Faculty of Humanities.