Between 20 and 25 May 2024, Brendon Nicholls helped to organise the Africa Week celebrations at the University of Leeds. The week-long academic and cultural programme was ground-breaking in its local focus on specific geo-political locations in the global South, and in underlining the decolonial approaches to research under way at Leeds.
In the foreword to the week’s proceedings, the Leeds Dean for EDI, Dr Kendi Guantai, writes: ‘There is an element of restorative justice to our research. Many of the problems now faced by the geopolitical South are remnants of colonialism. We are now bringing back to these countries the funding and the knowledge that we’ve had the privilege of developing because we’ve had the financial and material resources to do so, in order to tackle these problems together.’
Learn more here: Africa Week (leeds.ac.uk)