Unexamined assumptions and narrow worldviews riddle everyday academic practice, say Faith Mkwananzi and Melis Cin. The Black Lives Matter movement has sparked debates around structural and institutional racism, exclusion and belonging in the UK, and made discussion of decolonisation and racism a moral and ethical responsibility across society. Some universities’...
Street Art to Promote Representation and Epistemic Justice among Marginalized Rural Zimbabwean Youth is a Changing the Story Phase 2 ECR project, which focuses on rural Binga, a significantly underdeveloped rural district located in Matabeleland North in Zimbabwe. The project sought to document the experiences of the Tonga people who have...
Faith Mkwananzi is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Higher Education and Human Development Research Group at the University of the Free State, South Africa. In 2019 Faith was awarded Changing the Story Mobility Funding to attend the HDCA conference at the University College London, to present at the University...
Street Art to Promote Representation and Epistemic Justice among Marginalized Rural Zimbabwean Youth is a Changing the Story Phase 2 ECR project. The following films document the personal experiences of the Tonga youth who have been subject to marginalisation, social violence and exclusion, through street art designed and created by the young...
This blog is part of Changing The Story’s #YoungChangemakers series. If you are a young person leading alternative actions for civil society building in the Global South and would like to be featured in the series, get in touch! Written by Willard Muntanga, a young change maker on the Phase 2...