UCT’s Moshabela says Rhodes Must Fall movement was a painful period for many who were involved

UCT's Moshabela says Rhodes Must Fall movement was a painful period for many who were involved! The 2015 #RhodesMustFall student movement has been described as a painful period for the University of Cape Town's history and students involved. On 9 March 2015, student activist Chumani Maxwele threw human faeces on the Cecil John Rhodes statue on UCT's upper campus, in protest…

https://news365.co.za/rhodes-must-fall-2/

It's good that #OxfordUniversity are removing Sackler's name from buildings, endowed positions, etc. But there are still statues of, and scholarships named after, Rhodes. #RhodesMustFall seems largely forgotten.
The victims of the opioid epidemic are mostly white Americans. Rhodes' victims were black Africans.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/may/16/oxford-university-cuts-ties-with-sackler-family-over-links-with-opioids?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

The cover to the new (3rd) edition of Nicholas Mirzoeff’s Introduction to Visual Culture is absolutely fire. 🔥 It’s out with Routledge in the spring.

#poco #postcolonialstudies #visualculture #visualstudies #arthistory #academicmastadon #pubalert #rhodesmustfall

Academia friends: could you recommend any BA programs in English which have gone through a process of reinvention to diversify or 'decolonize' their course requirements and offerings? We are looking for models as we begin work on rethinking the Literature major and minors at Stevens.

#decolonizetheuniversity #rhodesmustfall #butlerbannerproject #diversify #curriculum #litstudies #AcademicMastodon @litstudies

At 4 PM we'll be co-hosting an interview with South-African socialist, climate justice activist and filmmaker Rehad Desai.

About "Everything Must fall", #BlackLivesMatter and climate justice for the Global South.

Event:
https://www.facebook.com/events/239794917321061/
Info:
https://socialisme.nu/agenda/marxisme-meeting-12-the-climate-crisis-black-brown-lives-in-the-global-south/

RT @[email protected]

Let's pay hommage to #RhodesMustFall and the entire fallist movement in South-Africa.
#BlackLivesMatter

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/seadanourhussen/status/1271353807495221248

RT @[email protected]

One protester makes an impassionate speech for the statue to be brought down. “We will beg no more. We want it down.” #RhodesMustFall

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/aamnamohdin/status/1270395143330451457