Venetia Nok’thula Jacobs is a Master’s candidate that has a strong interest in decolonial education and aspires to a career in curriculum development and archiving.
She started her tertiary education at Rhodes University in the Eastern Cape where she enrolled in a General BA degree in Psychology and History in 2016. She then did a BA history Honours degree (2019), where she fell seriously ill with her ancestral calling and began to start the initiation process.
Venetia, comes from a long line of healers on both her maternal and paternal side. Furthermore, in 2020 she enrolled in PGCE to understand teaching Pedagogies and methodologies in formal education.
These qualification together with initiation process has sparked the foundations of her master’s thesis titled “An decolonial exploration of the role of the Gobela’s processes as a stimulate for Life Orientation innovation”.
The thesis aims to demystify African spirituality and indigenous knowledge systems in literature but also call for the inclusion of African Spirituality in the curriculum as a form of African representation.