Nomalanga Mkhize

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. Quotes There has been a decline in the black learning tradition in this country. Mkhize made this statement during the "Africa Speaks" lecture while discussing education, intellectual traditions, and the changing relationship between Black communities and educational institutions in South Africa. What I lacked in teaching experience I would soon gain. Mkhize recalled these words while reflecting on her interview for a Mellon lectureship at Rhodes University, where concerns had been raised about her youth and lack of teaching experience. Alienation gives way to a sense of home, ownership and accountability. Mkhize spoke about the role of the humanities in cultivating a sense of belonging and encouraging African-centred approaches to knowledge and education. As an African university, Nelson Mandela University is centred on African norms and values, as Mandela was. Mkhize made this statement while discussing the role of higher education institutions in strengthening African knowledge systems and encouraging social transformation. The goal is to cultivate an African-rooted universalism steeped in the varied humanising political and normative traditions of the country. Mkhize explained her vision for the humanities as a meeting place for diverse traditions, perspectives, and intellectual experiences. The decolonisation movement in South African universities is dead. It was shot out, harassed out, expelled out and threatened out. Professor Mkhize made this statement during a lecture on curriculum transformation, arguing that the original decolonisation movement had been displaced by institutional discussions that lacked substantive change. Budgets have been allocated to "talk about decolonisation" but not to actually do it. In the same lecture, Mkhize criticized universities for investing in conferences and publications about decolonisation without implementing meaningful institutional transformation. African-centred knowledge [is needed] for the sake of building a real and credible concept of a future. During the 2020 John Langalibalele Dube Memorial Lecture, Mkhize stated that South Africa's decolonisation debate should remain rooted in African intellectual traditions rather than relying primarily on North or Latin American theoretical frameworks. External links Category:Historians from South Africa Category:Living people