Ethiopia in Mengistu’s Final Year: Until the Last Bullet

Abstract

structural space for gender and social justice (435–436). There is a close link between identity politics and infrastructural politics in the material and physical space of the university, which can order and control different publics, as well as influence emotions of acceptance and comfortability in thinking of university as ‘home’. This metaphor of university as a home shows how the infrastructure of HEI is accountable for social cohesion and discriminative social organisations. The only weakness of the book is that it is overflowing with information, which makes it difficult to understand the thread that runs throughout the chapters. However, the heavy read is justified by the book’s twin focus on transformation in South African universities, and what this means for schools. The book shows that transforming and ‘decolonising’ curriculums between universities and schools means to pay attention to language policies and infrastructural politics. The book argues for a ‘thick transformation’ that is not only deeprooted and all-inclusive in education but also in housing, business, sport, and transportation (59). Transformation needs transparent communication and political participation for structural and systematic change. Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, the inaccessibility and inequality in online education and classroom learning has shown the need for transforming universities and schools. This novel hybrid pedagogy of both online and classroom education shows how inaccessibility can be resolved through envisioning the goal of transforming education, thereby revolutionising the South African schooling system.