Ellis Ferdinand to represent Ghana at the 2021 Ubuntu International Students Dialogue

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The Ubuntu Dialogue was virtually launched on Tuesday, May 11, 2021, to get all participants to familiarize themselves with each other and also get the dialogue plans.

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The dialogue is expected to start from Tuesday, May 18 and any other Tuesday from 9:00 to 10:00 am EST until June 15, 2021.

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The dialogue is expected to be communicated on four topics namely;

1. The history and Legacies of and responses to systemic racism

2.  The meanings of Ubuntu and Pan Africanism as concepts and as practice

3. Decolonization and Transformation of Knowledge Production and Institutions

4. Africa and America as ideas, places, identities and subjects of study.

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The Ubuntu Dialogues: Museums and Communities Connect is an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded partnership between the MSU African Studies Center and the Stellenbosch University Museum.

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The partnership is geared toward a) transforming the function and practice of the museum as an institution, both within Africa and around the world; b) establishing new and strengthening existing connections and cooperation between universities, museums, and communities; and

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c) developing a replicable framework for universities and museums across national and other divides to collaborate in producing dynamic sites for the co-creation and dissemination of knowledge and practice.

The project includes three main components: virtual student dialogues, a seminar speaker exchange program, and a student internship program.

Participants are being selected from Nigeria, Ghana, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Cameroon, Malawi, Dr Congo, the United States of America, Botswana, South Africa, among others.

Ellis Ferdinand is a Practicing Curricularist and a Master of Philosophy Student in Curriculum and Pedagogic Studies at the University of Education, Winneba .

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He is expected to speak on three topics at the ubuntu international students dialogue to promote the essence of Pan Africanism from the perspective of an African and its impact on Africa’s futuristic growth and development politically, ideologically, economically etc.

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