Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Decolonising African Studies: Revisiting Archie Mafeje on Theory and Method

Adam Branch, now Director, Centre of African Studies, Cambridge, the announcer of this talk, has been a dedicated leader in the Decolonising the Curriculum movement at Cambridge, from its early days when it began as a book study group meeting in a room in the Arts faculty to its later development as a research unit organizing day long seminars with invited speakers in events hosted by the research centre CRASSH.

I used to marvel at his dedication.

A glance at a Google search for his name demonstrates his scope of activity.

thanks

toyin

On 24 March 2018 at 19:06, Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu> wrote:

The Centre of African Studies is proud to announce this year's Audrey Richards Distinguished African Studies Public Lecture by:

 

 

Professor Lungisile Ntsebeza

University of Cape Town

 

Professor Ntsebeza is the holder of the AC Jordan Chair in African Studies at the University of Cape Town and is Director of the Centre for African Studies. He will be speaking on: 

 

 

Decolonising African Studies:

Revisiting Archie Mafeje on Theory and Method

 

 

When: Tuesday 8 May 2018, 5:00 pm

 

Where: Lecture Theatre LG18, Faculty of Law, 10, West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DZ

 

The Lecture will be followed by a drinks reception, to be held in the Atrium of the Faculty of Law

 

We welcome everyone to join us for this important intervention into debates over decolonising African Studies in the UK, in South Africa, and globally. This public lecture will engage the intellectual history and legacy of Archie Mafeje, a key figure in the struggles to transform knowledge production on Africa, who earned his PhD in anthropology at Cambridge in 1966. In 1968, Archie Mafeje was appointed Senior Lecturer at UCT, only to have the appointment reversed under pressure from the apartheid state, sparking student protests. He then taught at University of Dar es Salaam, ISS in The Hague, American University in Cairo, University of Namibia, and University of South Africa. In 2015, the Archie Mafeje room at UCT was occupied by students during the Rhodes Must Fall protests; in the words of the student occupiers, "We have chosen the Archie Mafeje boardroom to recognise his struggle against the very institutional racism we are fighting against." 

 

Adam Branch

Director, Centre of African Studies, Cambridge

 

 

Toyin Falola

Department of History

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