Join us for a webinar on workers’ education in South Africa and Nigeria, hosted by the Centre for Education Rights and Transformation and the DHET-NRF SARChI Chair in Community, Adult and Workers' Education (CAWE). The webinar will feature a discussion of competing ideologies and perspectives on workers’ education. Professor Mondli Hlatshwayo, who has researched workers’ education in Nigeria and South Africa, will be joined by Baba Aye and Edwin Nisha, both intellectuals and activists in the Nigerian and global labour movement.

SUMMARY: Comparative analysis of the African labour movements is rare, and yet these movements grapple with similar challenges, such as confronting colonial and post-colonial labour regimes. While South Africa and Nigeria boast invaluable literature on workers’ education, an educational tool used by the labour movements, no attempts have been made to compare structured workers’ education in both countries. To bridge this gap, this webinar will examine workers’ education in Nigeria and South Africa, with the aim of unveiling patterns of both similarities and dissimilarities in their perspectives and implementation.