media releases - Africa Speaks Lecture Series

The Executive Dean of the College of Human Sciences at Unisa Prof. R.M.H. Moeketsi invites members of the media, the public and the diplomatic community to the Unisa Africa Speaks lecture series.

These lectures are intended to provide a rigorous academic platform for some of the best intellectuals on the African continent as well as those in the African Diaspora to critically engage with cultural, socio-political and economic issues that are of concern to all Africans. The lectures also provide young academics at Unisa with an opportunity to interact with Africa’s best intellectuals in the social sciences and humanities so that such invitees can act as role models to our emerging scholars.

This month's Africa Speaks lecture will focus on ‘Theory, ideology, and the danger of totalitarianism: implications for knowledge enquiry and policy making'. The keynote speaker will be African Scholar Dr Gordon Ade-Ojo, who is Principal Lecturer, Lifelong Learning at the University of Greenwich, London.

In this address, Dr Gordon Ade-Ojo will explore the concepts of theory, ideology and doctrine and argues that the line between these can sometimes be very thin. Because of the sometimes blurred boundaries, particularly between theory and ideology, Ade-Ojo argues that a fastidious adherence to the former can sometimes result in a rigid binary opposition between the self or familiar which is often eulogized; and the alien which is often castigated.

Details of the event are as follows:

Date:   09 May 2012
Time:   10:00
Venue: Senate Hall, Unisa Muckleneuk campus

Enquiries: Ms Ziyanda Rala - (012) 429 6413/073 3054 109