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The Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of the Witwatersrand, Professor Adam Habib, has released a statement on accelerating transformation at Wits.

Doppiozero has reprinted the text of Achille Mbembe's essay on xenophobia, in both English and Italian. Photographs are by Kudzanai Chiurai.

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An edited version of the new preface, 'The Value of Africa's Aesthetics,' to the Africa edition of Achille Mbembe's On the Postcolony, published in May 2015 by Wits University Press.

Achille Mbembe's recent essay 'Decolonizing Knowledge and the Question of the Archive' has been published as an ebook by the blog Africa is a Country.

On 6 May 2015, the House of Prayer for All Nations Choir performed the Uniti Hymn, composed by WiSER composer-in-residence Neo Muyanga, and based on the preamble to the national planning commission written by poets Njabulo Ndebele and Antjie Krog. The concert premier of the hymn was recorded live to form part of an art installation at the African union headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, set to open in 2015.
 

The Adler Museum of Medicine at the Wits Medical School hosts a talk by Prof Tony Cantrell on 'Asbestos: Miracle Fibre - Serial Killer' on 18 May, 13:00-14:00. All welcome.

Wits University Press will publish an updated edition of Achille Mbembe's On the Postcolony, with a foreword by Professor of African Literature Isabel Hofmeyr and a preface by the author, this month.

The text of Achille Mbembe's recent lecture 'Decolonizing Knowledge and the Question of the Archive.'