#FeesMustFall, #StudentBlackOut Day, and the New Student Movements
In light of recent student protests in South Africa and the US and in a number of other countries across the world, the Concilium on Southern Africa is hosting a teach-in, Thursday, December 3. The teach-in brings University of the Witwatersrand faculty and students via Webex into conversation with local Duke and other area students and activists. These include: Kelly Gillespie who currently serves as Chair of Anthropology at the University of the Witwatersrand; Lwazi Lushaba a graduate of the University of the Witwatersrand and currently a Wits lecturer in political science and sociology; Leigh-Ann Naidoo a PhD candidate in Education and student activist on several South African campuses; Layla Brown a doctoral candidate in Cultural Anthropology at Duke, an affiliate of the All African Peoples Revolutionary Party (AAPRP), and activist involved with the Dream Defenders and teach-ins after the Ferguson uprisings; D'atra"Dee Dee" Jackson, HBCU Field Organizer for Ignite North Carolina, an activist working with students across the state concerned with college affordability and accessibility, Black Lives Matter, and institutional racism; and Ajamu Dillahunt, a student and organizer at North Carolina Central University.