Centre for African Studies to host Africa Thinking Differently workshop

We closed off the show with an interview with Sabelo Mcinziba – From the University of Cape Town. We were talking about the Africa Thinking Differently workshop that will be hosted between the 13th to the 15th of December. This workshop is part of a collaborative project between the Centre for African Studies and ‘the names we give’ at the University of Cape Town, Chimurenga, the Africana Studies Department at Brown University, the Centre for Caribbean Thought at the University of the West Indies, and Faculty of Humanities at Addis Ababa University. They say there is a current crisis in the general history of thought and knowledge production. It is a crisis in which challenges for thinking and the practices of thinking itself are crucial. Within this context the central challenge posed by this workshop is that of breaking with a set of conventional academic and disciplinary frameworks and ways of working – to think, practice, perform and imagine Africa in new ways. Sabelo explained more. The workshop will happen at the Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town, CAS Gallery, Upper Campus, Engineering Mall, Harry Oppenheimer Institute Building in Rondebosch from Tuesday, December 13th at 9:00 AM to Thursday, December 15th at 6:00 PM. If you would like more information contact Sabelo on 073 166 8889 or visit www.thinkingafricadifferently.eventbrite.com