Centring African Languages to Decolonize Curricula. A University Capacity Development Programme:Transforming teaching, learning, researching & leading

Faculty of Health Sciences UCT
Joined July 2022
We are delighted to be hosting the 2023 Decolonial summer school. Our Theme is tentatively tittle Decoloniality: Linguicide, Imagination and the discontinuities of understanding Impilo. Bahlali you don’t want to miss this festival of ideas this January 9 to 13
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The ability to understand and to be understood during an encounter with your health professionals is perhaps the most important aspect to healthcare! This and more! Have you rsvp’d yet? @ERamugondo @KerrinBegg @tandontunja @UCT_news @UCTHealthSci @SAfmRadio @UWFM88_106FM
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Please join us as we reflect on how language discordance affects health care service delivery and health education @ERamugondo @UCTHealthSci @UCT_news @OTASA_news @OTARG_ @UCT_SPH @matumocr @KerrinBegg @tandontunja
Dignity conserving care in South Africa should mean that people can express their health concerns in their home languages without the need to involve translators @ERamugondo @KerrinBegg @UCT_SPH @UCT_news @matumocr @OTASA_news @UCTHealthSci
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Please join us as we reflect on how language discordance affects health care service delivery and health education @ERamugondo @UCTHealthSci @UCT_news @OTASA_news @OTARG_ @UCT_SPH @matumocr @KerrinBegg @tandontunja
So many times black South African patients are accused of a “language barrier” BUT SHOULDN’T YOUR HEALTHCARE PROVIDER SPEAK YOUR LANGUAGE? #caldc #africanlanguages
"Use English... but don't let English use you…”- Ngugi Wa Thiong’o #AfricanLanguages #CALDC #DecolonizingCurricula
"If you know all the languages of the world but not your mother tongue, that is enslavement. Knowing your mother tongue and all other languages too is empowerment.”- Ngugi Wa Thiong’o #AfricanLanguages #CALDC
“The manner in which the exclusionary nature of the English language is used in knowledge prodution separates us as humans.” ― Malebo Sephodi #AfricanLanguages #CALDC #Decolonizing