Celebrating our continent
CELEBRATION: Dancers will visit CPUT campuses on Africa Day
Wednesday, 23 May 2018
Africa Day will be celebrated tomorrow on CPUT campuses to commemorate the founding of the Organisation of African Unity.
The OAU is now known as the African Union, but the day is still celebrated around the world in various ways.
This year CPUT has chosen the theme “Celebrating Africanness” and already students are describing what they think it means to be African on the CPUT Facebook page.
Keeping it short in a bid not to disrupt examinations, activations are curtailed to happen between 1pm and 2pm on the District Six and Bellville campuses. These include traditional dancing, poetry, drumming and interaction with an MC around the concept of Africanness.
Mowbray campus, look out for dancers to visit your campus between 12 pm and 1pm.
Granger Bay campus will be visited by the dancers between 2pm and 3pm.
All campuses should keep an eye out for a huge, travelling poster of Africa. International students are invited to place a pin on the map to show us where their hometown is situated.
On a more academic note, Fundani hosts the second Decolonisation Seminar tomorrow in the Seminar Hall on Bellville Campus. Entitled “Struggle for Epistemic Freedom in Africa: Deprovincialization and Decolonization” the seminar starts at 12.00 pm.
Professor Sabelo Ndlovu of Unisa will deliver the keynote address and Siya Sabata, CPUT lecturer responsible for the development of graduate attributes and curriculum transformation, will respond.
There is something to suite everyone’s mood this Africa Day so come and share in the celebration.
Written by Theresa Smith
Email: smitht@cput.ac.za
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