Feb 01 2023 56 mins
This month, we're joined by Axolile Ntsika Mandaba Qina, or ‘Ax’ as he also goes by. Ax is a South African researcher currently doing his PhD at the University of Edinburgh; among many other achievements, he was the first African Black Male President of the Student Representative Council and received the Mandela Rhodes Scholarship in 2016.
We cover a lot of topics in this episode, including colonial legacies; the politics of language in university settings; pressure to be a revolutionary; cross-cultural approaches to mental health and well-being; race; spirituality and mental health; the value of traditional healing; the emotional labour of reporting issues of race; and how to make universities more informed and inclusive.
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