Hub for Decolonial Feminist Psychologies in Africa

20/04/2026

Join us for Dialogues in the Flesh: Reading with Omolara Oriye.
When: 24 April 2026 | 12:00 – 13:30 (Cape Town, S.A.); 11:00 – 12:30 (Lagos, Nigeria)

What to Expect:
This is a dialogical space. Cameras on (if your body allows), hearts open, and a willingness to sit in the tension of unlearning.

We will explore questions inspired by Omolara's two texts https://selar.com/m/thispluriverse:
- Reflecting on the body as a site of truth and the Archive of lies.
- Exploring individual liberation and the collective. Considering: which comes first?
- Reflecting on knowledge as liberation and knowledge as a [colonial?] infrastructure.

LINK: 575581ac-4bfa-40c4-871e-da55f7b5612a@92454335-564e-4ccf-b0b0-24445b8c03f7" rel="ugc" target="_blank">https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/575581ac-4bfa-40c4-871e-da55f7b5612a@92454335-564e-4ccf-b0b0-24445b8c03f7

08/04/2026

Please join us for a book launch:
Affected by R**e: An Intersectional Approach to Researching Sexual Violence by Rebecca Helman
When: Wednesday 29 April, 2026
Time: 18:00
Where: Hub for Decolonial Feminist Psychologies in Africa, Psychology Department, UCT Faculty of Humanities, Rondebosch
Please RSVP to [email protected] by 21 April

03/03/2026

Resist, connect and stand up!
Launching a manifesto for psychosocial support in times of collapse

5pm CET (Berlin) // 10 am CST (Ciudad de México) // 6pm SAST (Johannesburg) // 7pm AST (Sulaymaniyah)

In light of the current global conditions, the question arises again and again: What can we do when authoritarian dynamics of destruction gain strength and the suffering of billions continues to escalate?

The psychosocial manifesto “Resist! Connect! Stand up!” explores possible courses of action under these circumstances and brings together solidaristic analyses and practices. Across four continents, we present the manifesto and share testimonies from transnational contexts of ongoing violence. At the same time, we call for building networks and standing together in solidarity to strengthen the emancipatory power of psychosocial work.

With contributions from Aluna Acompañamiento Psicosocial (Mexico), HAUKARI – Association for International Cooperation (Germany/Region of Kurdistan in Iraq), Mastura Institute for Applied Science in Psychosocial Work (Region of Kurdistan in Iraq), and Sophiatown Community Psychological Counselling (South Africa) from the network The Transnational Exchange on Staff Care and Psychosocial Accompaniment Practices in Contexts of Violence.

Jessica Horn (human rights defender, pan-African feminist, writer and poet) comments on the manifesto.

We explicitly create space for political discussion and solidarity networking.

The event will take place online and will be translated into German, English, Spanish, and Kurdish.

Zoom-Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87999861393?pwd=URDy6Z2kalN8b1ijShQOdEnt0HocaA.1
Kenncode: 607583

11/02/2026

Let's get ready for 17th February

Zoom details
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4227412209?pwd=tEfjoJO6UPS2fta2IPXBDmTen4Pog4.1

Meeting ID: 422 741 2209
Passcode: LECTURE

07/10/2025

We have always loved the work of the indomitable Aphiwe Mhlangulana.
Makwande! 🕯️

[New Alert] 🌟 🎊

We are happy to welcome Aphiwe Mhlangulana as a Doctoral Research Fellow supported by Carnegie Corporation of New York on . Aphiwe is completing her PhD in Psychology at the University of Cape Town.

Her research examines Black African women journalists and bloggers' experiences of technology-facilitated . These experiences are explored through a feminist lens with a specific focus on journalists and bloggers in the Southern African Development Community ( ) region. Her work focuses specifically on the silencing of feminist activists. Her Master's thesis studied student activists' experiences of protesting against gender-based violence. She explored the multitude of ways student activists were silenced during the Silent Protests and the protest.

Aphiwe holds an MSc in Psychology from University of Cape Town and a BSc in Humanities/Humanistic Studies from Rhodes University.

UCT Faculty of Humanities Hub for Decolonial Feminist Psychologies in Africa

03/10/2025

𝐈𝐍𝐕𝐈𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍📌

2025 Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) Humanities Book Award Lecture

on 𝐑𝐢𝐨𝐭𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐬

by Prof Hugo ka Canham (Institute for Social and Health Sciences, University of South Africa)

Date: 24 October 2025
Time: 10:00 –11:30
Registration link: https://assaf-org-za.zoom.us/meeting/register/mFZmyV0sRg-5dHgdpKrsUw #/registration

20/03/2025

The Rhodes Must Fall movement is one of the student-led societal uprisings that can rightfully claim to have reignited decolonial discourse and scholarship in the African continent and beyond.

19/03/2025

[STREAMING LINK] Professor Shose Kessi will deliver her inaugural lecture on Wednesday 19, March 2025.

Time: 18:30 for 19:00
Venue: Neville Alexander Building, Auditorium LT1, Lower Campus, University of Cape Town
Lecture Title: S #*T HAPPENS
A Decolonial Feminist Psychological Reflection on Institutional Racism in Higher Education

You can follow the proceedings via this link: https://bit.ly/Professor_Shose_Kessi_Inaugural_Lecture

19/03/2025

[STREAMING LINK] Professor Shose Kessi will deliver her inaugural lecture on Wednesday 19, March 2025.

Time: 18:30 for 19:00
Venue: Neville Alexander Building, Auditorium LT1, Lower Campus, University of Cape Town
Lecture Title: S #*T HAPPENS
A Decolonial Feminist Psychological Reflection on Institutional Racism in Higher Education

You can follow the proceedings via this link:

10/03/2025

Dear Colleagues,

You are invited to join us for the Faculty of Humanities March inaugural lecture/s of:

Professor Shose Kessi
Date: 19 March 2025
Time: 18:30 for 19:00
Venue: Neville Alexander Building, Auditorium LT1, Lower Campus, University of Cape Town
Lecture Title: S #*T HAPPENS
A Decolonial Feminist Psychological Reflection on Institutional Racism in Higher Education

Abstract:
Institutional racism in higher education is something that we do not pay sufficient attention to. Debates on transformation in universities often focus on demographic change and do not take into account the everyday practices and experiences of staff and students, which often contradict the transformation discourse. How did we at UCT end up with a student throwing f***s on the Rhodes statue? In this lecture, I will present the findings from a Photovoice project with black students at UCT that started on the eve of the Rhodes Must Fall movement as an example of decolonial feminist mobilization against institutional racism. I also reflect, in conversation with black womxn scholars, on the role of the UCT Black Academic Caucus. The lecture will highlight the complex ways in which identities are negotiated in oppressive contexts as well as the less visible and ambivalent institutional practices that sustain the status quo. A case is made for universities to interrogate institutional racism, how it influences teaching & learning, research, and management practices, and most importantly, how it impacts people’s wellbeing.

Bio:
Shose Kessi is Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at UCT and Professor in the Department of Psychology. Her research centres on social and political psychology and the development of Photovoice methodology for community mobilization. Shose has published on the psychology of racism in higher education and other decolonial and pan-African approaches to psychology. She is co-director of the Hub for Decolonial Feminist Psychologies in Africa at UCT. Shose completed her PhD in Organizational and Social Psychology at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). She was a UCT Mandela fellow of the WEB DuBois Research Institute, Hutchins Centre, Harvard University in 2014 and a past recipient of the Erik Erickson Award from the International Society for Political Psychology.

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