And Prof Mamdani’s work remains prolific today, encouraging many students & academics to think about state and society in the colonial, apartheid & post apartheid eras.

One of the hardest chapters in his career, is now the centre of US politics. 🖤🤍🤎

Me neither. I’m reading people’s reviews and glad they enjoyed the film. But I cannot do horror films.

I was AFRAID after watching Get Out, and stopped watching thrillers and horrors long before that.

I value my sleep and my peace.

…without properly understanding our context.

Or literature that shapes broad generalisations of the African context for generations to come.

AI is not the step into the future that people think the Humanities needs.

And we won’t keep quiet about it or be shamed into accepting it uncritically.

So it’s interesting that academics in the global south are (once again), literally fighting a machine that allows students to bypass understanding of differences in governance & public administration in our context.

We’ve seen this before where large amounts of research are written about us…

Secondly, AI is antithetical to the Humanities because it reveals bias in the information it currently carries and in the way that it frames the information.

I’ve seen this in the course I teach, which is rooted in South African literature on governance & public administration.

And this could be a a by product or systemic within AI. We’ll all be able to tell soon enough.

In the greater scheme of things, anti-intellectualism means accepting a status quo, or the changing nature of systems without questioning them.

And historically, that’s never been good.

Firstly, AI is deeply anti-intellectual. And anti-intellectualism is fast becoming the problem of our times.

Humanities relies on learning about why processes, institutions & issues occurred, criticism and healthy debate. AI doesn’t equip students for this level of learning or understanding.

Fear of exposure because I’m not about to let you know what I don’t know about what the kids are saying these days 🤣