Oluwole faced a double challenge: a woman in philosophy and an African, confronting both sexism and Eurocentric bias.
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Many academics and former diplomats commenting on Russia’s invasion show a lack of sympathy towards Ukraine. That needs to change.
The active and uninhibited dissemination of knowledge is vital for the advancement of knowledge.
Young professors are challenged to engage in public outreach using digital technologies, without becoming mouthpieces for corporate elites.
Populist movements are on the rise. Their supporters distrust the establishment, elites, authority and official sources. The post-truth world is a post-expert world.
How did Sol Plaatje, a man with only four years of formal schooling, become one of South Africa’s most brilliant and committed public educators?
The American Sociological Association is starting a conversation to include “public communication” – work often largely ignored – in the assessment of a scholar’s contributions. Why does it matter?
The president of one of the country’s leading research university systems argues that the academic community has to make sure researchers and scientists engage with the general public.
Earth is “fucked” and our insatiable growth economy is to blame. So argues Naomi Klein in her intentionally provocative best-seller This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate. Klein is the latest…
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