STELLENBOSCH, SOUTH AFRICA- A major online webinar is set to bring together African scholars and practitioners to explore how indigenous knowledge systems and leadership theories can reshape the future of health management across the continent.

The webinar, titled “Towards Decolonizing Health Leadership Practices and Knowledge Systems in Africa’s Healthcare Landscape”, is scheduled for 3 September 2025, from 14:00 to 15:30 SAST on MS Teams.

The session is hosted by the Africa Centre for Inclusive Health Management at Stellenbosch University, in partnership with the University of Manchester.

Speakers include Wavinya Makai, founder of Mitukai Africa and development practitioner; Mmabatho Montse, Africana womanist scholar-practitioner and host of Conscious Conversations; and Dr Abdoulie Sallah, senior lecturer at the University of Manchester whose work focuses on excluded and marginalized narratives in development policy.

Convened by Dr Munya Saruchera, Director of the Africa Centre, the webinar will examine how colonial legacies, and neoliberal reforms continue to shape African health systems, often reducing healthcare to technical efficiency and biomedical control.

“The event aims to highlight indigenous philosophies of care, people-centered leadership, and critical management thought as alternatives for building more just and inclusive health systems,” he told this author in a WhatsApp message.

“African health systems are too often reduced to technical efficiency and biomedical control, with little space for indigenous approaches to wellbeing,” added Dr. Saruchera.

“This webinar provides an opportunity to rethink health leadership through African perspectives, he further stressed.”

This session forms part of the Africa Centre’s ongoing webinar series, with future topics to be announced via the Centre’s social media platforms.

For information on how to be part of this event, please follow the attached poster for details or send an email to mm******@****co.za or, a direct WhatsApp message to +27 65 112 4693

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