Application Deadline: November 20, 2022
Email: dg@dialogoglobal.com
Affiliated Faculty Members include:
Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Houria Bouteldja, Ramón Grosfoguel,Faith Mkwesha, Sandew Hira, Ashraf Kunnummal, Dina Odessy
Description:
The online international decolonial school, South-South Decolonial Dialogues, aims to open a dialogue among different decolonial thinkers of the Global South. The school goal is to the present different decolonial perspectives produced from the body-politics and geo-politics of knowledge of liberation struggles in the Global South. For this purpose, we have a group of decolonial intellectual/activists from different regions of the world that will participate as faculty of the decolonial school. They will cover different aspects of decoloniality with emphasis on their regional location. This course is offered through the Center of Study and Investigation for Decolonial Dialogues (Barcelona).
Speaker: Sandew Hira, penname of Dew Baboeram, is secretary of the Decolonial International Network Foundation (
On October 12 Aralez in the Netherlands organize a day full of activities including; a solidarity march, Mapu commemoration and solidarity ceremony, a 1492 people’s tribunal, cultural performances and panels. Together we commemorate the day Columbus invaded Abya Yala (the American continent) in 1492. A date that marks the symbolic beginning of European colonialism. A process that has institutionalised genocide and ecocide worldwide. As a result, the right to self-determination, identity and culture of Indigenous People’s is still under pressure. Indigenous land defenders are displaced and killed; rivers and environment polluted; and land expropriated for the profit of large multinationals. The result is the current climate crisis. Therefore, it is time for reparatory justice and decolonisation! This festival offers a platform to critical perspectives on the climate crisis, healing, cultural values, and solidarity.
Colonialism is not history. To this day, vast amounts of resources and labour-power are transferred each year from the Global South to the Global North. Governments are overthrown, workers exploited and ecosystems destroyed by Western multinational corporations. Throughout history there has been a rich tradition of anti-imperialist resistance in cultural and art movements.” From mass cultural organizations in Indonesia such as Lekra, to revolutionary artists working on Global South unity in Cuba. This festival will honour anti-imperialist resistance art, then and now. Ranging from conscious hip-hop to the art of drawing, from film and panelists to dance and afrobeat, we have a line-up full of organizers and artists that will bring anti-imperialist resistance alive in Amsterdam.
Almost 30 years after the fall of Apartheid in South Africa the country has still to find its way in improving the living standards of the masses and transforming the old society in a new one. The Rhodes Must Fall movement and other movements which came along with it put an enormous pressure on the Government of South Africa to do something of decolonization. The Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) has demanded from each and every university that they present their policy on how to deal with decolonizing the university. A university is also judged on their relevance for society. They have to connect with communities outside the academia. In South Africa – and the black communities in general – the focus on decolonial theory is on Decolonizing The Mind. This goes back to the traditions of Marcus Garvey. It is encouraging to note that Government of South Africa has also taken the decolonization trajectory to schools by demanding the “the teaching and promotion of African languages, South African and African history and national symbols to all learners up to Grade 12”.