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- - - - Students argue that what’s being taught in university courses is imported from the global North, doesn’t draw enough on African-based research, and the work of academics from the global South. They've also argued that course materials don’t take the backgrounds of most South African learners into account in terms of culture, language or method
        
        many South African universities are thinking about “decolonizing the curriculum” from only one angle: changing the content of what they teach; for example, they might add Africa-based authors to a reading list.
        
        leaves many students feeling alienated and marginalised.
        
        To help bridge this gap, we’ve come up with a series of questions to encourage academics across faculties to unearth some of the norms, assumptions and everyday practices that are taken for granted and which may be entangled in the “hidden curriculum”.
        
        Important questions:
        
        What principles, norms, values and worldviews inform your selection of knowledge for your curriculum?
        
        Does your curriculum reflect its location in Africa and the global South? To what extent does it draw on subjugated histories, voices, cultures and languages?
        
        How does your teaching recognise and affirm the agency of black and first-generation students? How does your teaching legitimate and respect their experiences and cultures?
        
        Can you speak indigenous or regional languages and relate to the cultures and lived experiences of all students? Do you draw on these valuable resources in your teaching?
        
        How far do your teaching and assessment methods allow students to feel included without assuming assimilation?
- - - - the issue this movement brings up is remembering history vs. glorifying a violent colonizer
- - - - However, many of those buildings that they have said are going to be named that have not been named yet
        
        Neo-Colonialism: Many of the same institutions that once profited from slavery continue to exploit the labor of the people of Africa; colonialism is continuing to this day
        
        Histories should not be separated because all of history is one history for humanity
        
        The conversation about the decolonisation has been going on for decades; its only the momentum that has been building now