Nadira Omarjee

Nadira Omarjee is decolonial feminist scholar, working mainly between Amsterdam and Cape Town. She was Senior Researcher at the Nordic Africa Institute on the Africa Scholar Programme at Uppsala University, Sweden, and is the SPARK Academia Chair with the European Network Against Racism (ENAR), a member of the Identity, Diversity and Inclusion research group at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and a Research Associate at Wits University. Nadira is also the Chair of the Board of Aralez, a pan-decolonial foundation based in Amsterdam. Nadira’s work focuses on questions of healing as a decolonial feminist pedagogical praxis and has authored Reimagining the Dream: decolonising academia by putting the last first (2018) and We belong to the Earth: towards a decolonial feminist pedagogy rooted in Uhuru and Ubuntu.