Date:
Thursday, 16 November 2026
Time:
13:00pm – 15:00pm
Venue:
Iyatsiba Lab,
66 Greatmore Street, Woodstock
(enter via Regent St)
This session, titled ‘Twelve Theses on Thinking and Overcoming the Neocolonial in Africa', will be led by Michael Neocosmos. It is concerned to rethink a politics of emancipation from neocolonialism.
It is organized around twelve theses along with commentaries and brief illustrations regarding the thought of an emancipatory politics for Africa. These theses express, in abridged form, the core ideas of Neocosmos’s latest book Beyond the Neocolonial: Africa and the Dialectics of Human Emancipation (Ottawa: Daraja Press, 2026).
Bio:
Michael Neocosmos is Emeritus Professor in Humanities at Rhodes University, a Research Associate at the Centre for Humanities Research, UWC, and Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute. Supported by the UK-SA Bilateral Chair in Culture and Technics
Supported by the UK-SA Bilateral Chair in Culture and Technics.