Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka joining UJ to spearhead decolonisation
Prof Wole Soyinka is joining UJ’s faculty of humanities as a distinguished visiting professor, to actively teach and engage in public discourse on global politics
Nobel Laureate Prof Wole Soyinka is joining the decolonisation movement at the faculty of humanities at the University of Johannesburg (UJ) as a distinguished visiting professor. Soyinka is Africa’s only black Nobel Laureate for literature and continues to actively teach and engage in public discourse on global politics and development. Students around the country have advocated for decolonisation in the Fees Must Fall protests, which were first sparked in 2015. Prof Tshilidzi Marwala, deputy vice-chancellor of research and internationalisation at UJ, says decolonisation entails changing the movement of knowledge from the developed world to the developing world and that the appointment spoke to this project of decolonising education in the country. He says having Soyinke at the university was a move that shows Africans could have their own literature, which has its own style and flavour: "Thereby, we can then export that literature to the rest of the world and reverse the direction ...
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