WHITE PRIVILEGE HATES DISRUPTIVE BLACK AFRICAN WOMEN LEADERS
THE words by Katijah Khoza-Shangase, the first and only black African woman to earn a PhD in speech pathology and audiology at the time, are inspiring, indeed.
Khoza-Shangase penned a chapter in
Black Academic Voices: The South African Experience (2019), in which she makes a cogently potent appraisal of “Intellectual and emotional toxicity”.
She reveals how a white professor tried to discourage and thus dissuade her determined pursuit of a PhD. This professor snarled that “not everyone is cut out for research” which she interpreted as his way of telling her to stay
