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storyteller 'until the lions have their own historians, tales of hunting will always glorify the hunter' an African proverb

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Emeritus Professor Ron Simango, Rhodes University Linguistics and Applied Language Studies: sometime ago, a judge wrote his judgement in IsiZulu. Some people complained. What's the use of English when the accused, complainant, witnesses, prosecutor, and judge all speak IsiZulu.

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If you're in Africa, you study Africa. So African Studies must go out of the window. Prof Prah.

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The first form of writing, the first human script was born here in this continent, in Egypt.

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The earliest speech forms started in the area between Angola and Namibia among the Khoi Khoi people, says Prof Prah.

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When you say 'I'm Congolese, or I'm Zimbabwean', you're talking about something which is not more than fifty years. Prof Kwesi Prah delivering an Africa Month Public Lecture at Rhodes University.

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Prof Kwesi Kwaa Prah: when we talk of Africa Month, we are looking at ourselves as if we are outside ourselves. Prof Prah is delivering the Africa Month Public Lecture at Rhodes University. Follow on Zoom: https://t.co/p816D86ZEW? pwd=OHZLY3EvNGROWnI2VDlNVk5qdU5 sQT09

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Prof Sioux McKenna of Rhodes University: (as universities) we've come from being creatures of the state to being creatures of the market. She's now addressing the preconference session of the Journalism Summit now on at Rhodes University.

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Dr Mandisi Majavu: The goal is to live in a just, equitable society.

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Dr Mandisi Majavu: White people would not want to be Black, because they know what it means.

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Prof Christi van der Westhuizen: If you were born after 1990 and you are White, you still enjoy the privileges that accrue from whiteness. That's why it's important for White people to get involved in the transformation project.

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Dr Claire Kelly: What is valued? Who is valued? To start to talk about transforming our institutions, we need to understand how whiteness is operating through them.

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Dr Cecilia Lwiindi Nedziwe: when the UBLS collapsed, Botswana had to start afresh and build its own university. The funding was provided by the people of Botswana. This is the lesson for us if we are to retain our sovereignity.

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Tendai Sithole: Today if we want to see our own public audio-visual archive, we cannot find it at the SABC. It was sold to a private company and I was told it is sealed. We cannot access our own image archive.

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Black Solidarity: A Philosophical Defence by Mabogo P. More

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Tendai Sithole: I want to bring Black existentialist philosopher Mabogo P. More into the conversation on Black Consciousness speaking on its own terms.

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I had my own encounter with the police in Joburg. I was saved by my passport. If I had my Trinidadian passport, I don't know what would have happened. But my US passport saved me.

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Prof Victoria Collis-Buthelezi: If we are post race, let's look at the numbers, let's look at how the space is set up, let's look at who is profiting from appropriation.

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Prof Victoria Collis-Buthelezi: I'm a student of Black Studies. But there's a way in which we have begun to mistake the space for the map.