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This year UCT is hosting a month-long celebration of its African connections.
The decision to upsize UCT's annual one-day Africa Day celebrations, on 25 May, to a month-long extravaganza was an easy one, explains deputy vice-chancellor responsible for internationalisation and the Afropolitan thrust at UCT, Professor Thandabantu Nhlapo. as he outlines the events for UCT Africa Month - themed Celebrating Africa.
For one thing, he says, a single day could no longer do justice to the university activities actually taking place on the ground. Too many initiatives in the faculties and PASS departments were overshadowed by the core events, which are centrally marketed.
"Also, the scale of the event did not match the importance the university attaches to internationalisation in the first place, and to the transformative aspects of the Afropolitan vision in particular," says Nhlapo.
So over the past months Nhlapo, as chairperson of the Africa Month core group, and the Faculty of Law's Professor Evance Kalula, chairperson of a steering group on which all faculties and PASS departments are represented, have (with those two groups) pulled together a programme of many notes and textures. The core events are still there - including a panel discussion on 24 May, the Africa dress competition and an exhibition showcasing UCT's partnerships on the continent.
The theme for the UCT Africa Month is Celebrating Africa.
Read the Monday Paper article.
Download the Africa Month Programme of events.
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UCT Africa Cup of Nations
Soccer tournament (5 May)
My Africa Photo competition (15 May)
Africa month Plaza event (15 May)
Africa Day panel discussion (24 May)
African dress competition (24 May)
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