The Rise of the Neoliberal University in South Africa: Some Implications for Curriculum Imagination(s)

The public university in the global South continues to be trapped an existential slumber, struggling self-define/self-diagnose its purposes, rationales, goals and agenda(s). Despite emergence of #FeesMustfall, #RhodesMustFall, more recently #Asinamali student protests, African higher education adopt neoliberal colonial conceptions institutional reforms, seen through enactment performance management instruments, demographic understandings transformation, incoherent/illogical policy prescriptions, use technology as pedagogic replacement. In this article, I attempt do two things. Firstly, critique legislative framework largely inadequate nature designed reinforce market-orientated logics discourses. Secondly, thinking beyond university, propose what inclusive curriculum could look like a decolonial lens. end article with some parting thoughts on future Africa, potential implications for see transformative curricula.