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South Africa

Nomalanga Mkhize is a South African historian, public intellectual, columnist, and scholar whose work focuses on African history, land, identity, decolonization, feminism, education, and African intellectual traditions.

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African-centred knowledge [is needed] for the sake of building a real and credible concept of a future.

There has been a decline in the black learning tradition in this country.

The decolonisation movement in South African universities is dead. It was shot out, harassed out, expelled out and threatened out.

Budgets have been allocated to "talk about decolonisation" but not to actually do it.

Alienation gives way to a sense of home, ownership and accountability.

The goal is to cultivate an African-rooted universalism steeped in the varied humanising political and normative traditions of the country.

What I lacked in teaching experience I would soon gain.

As an African university, Nelson Mandela University is centred on African norms and values, as Mandela was.

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