Our pot rests on the three pillars of response-ability, pedagogy and transformation. Simmering beneath our pot, the fire of change and transformation. The belly of our pot is the African context with our projects stewing inside. The smoke is the iterative nature of the continuing work to decolonize. 

We came up with the metaphor of the African pot, thinking that this pot can symbolise the African context. Upon further research, we discovered that this "African" pot was brought to South Africa by Dutch colonisers (see here). Oh no! Can something brought by the colonisers be used as a symbol of decolonisation?

This brings up the broader question of whether decolonisation is about getting rid of everything brought to us by colonialism. In that case, the pot would need to be replaced and should not be our metaphor. However, the African pot, rather than representing some kind of "pure" African alternative, can also represent the way in which ideas, practice and technologies from other spaces can be re-imagined for our contexts. Each of our projects tries to re-imagine an aspect of our curriculum and/or pedagogy in a way that resonates with the African context.