Across disciplines there is a growing awareness, backed by robust scientific evidence, that humans are not unique in this world and that we share our sentience with other animal and plant species. The Cartesian divide between human, animals and plants can no longer be sustained: We differ not in kind but in degree. This holds across disciplines in academia, including African Studies. But how to teach students about this shared sentience? We argue that the classical lecture hall does not suffice. This emerging new scientific paradigm asks for equally new pedagogical approaches. In this seminar we want to present you with one of these innovative pedagogical approaches, named ‘wild pedagogy’, which takes us first of all out of the lecture hall (and in this seminar that is a goat farm), but secondly also out of our comfort zone in many other ways. The latter we do around the theme of animal communication, the area of research in southern Africa of the current visiting fellow at the African Studies Centre Leiden, Dr Vanessa Wijngaarden. Click here to register for this event

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This event will be held both online and physically in Leiden. All registrees will receive a link to the online platform one day before the start of the event. This book is the first that looks at the many thousands of white workers who migrated to Zambia's copper mines and became some of most affluent and wealthy groups of workers in the world. Drawing on archival research from four continents, Money argues that this group was a highly mobile global workforce and constituted a racialised working class, a white working class. The affluence of these white mineworkers was secured through bitter struggles against the mining companies and by repeatedly preventing Africans from being employed in skilled jobs. These jobs were monopolised by white workers from the 1920s to the 1960s. They were an unpleasant bunch, but they were important. In this book, Money focuses on the mobility of these workers and their international connections. These, he argues, played a crucial role in shaping social categories of race and class on the Copperbelt and determining the evolution of a region which quickly became one of the world’s largest sources of copper. Click here to register for this event

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