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‘Shift the Discourse from Decolonisation to Dehegemonisation’

Posted By: adminon: May 27, 2025In: World From AfricaTags: African universities, Decolonisation, Dehegemonisation, Dependency, Geopolitical tension, Innovation, Internationalisation, Knowledge, UncertaintyNo CommentsViews:
‘Shift the Discourse from Decolonisation to Dehegemonisation’

By Damtew Teferra  For more than half a century African universities have been fully invested in denouncing colonisation and exalting decolonisation. In a piece, ‘From dumb decolonisation to... Read more

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Three Big Take-aways From An African Family Trip to Namibia, Botswana, Cape Town and Addis Ababa

Posted By: adminon: November 30, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: Black lives, Botswana Democratic Party, Christianity in Ethiopia, Decolonisation, Ethiopian sense of independence, Ethiopia’s imperial grandeur, High African entrepreneurship in Ethiopia, Namibia, Oromia, Rural Botswana, The Adwa Victory Memorial, Tswana ethnicityNo CommentsViews:
Three Big Take-aways From An African Family Trip to Namibia, Botswana, Cape Town and Addis Ababa

By Yusuf Bangura  A few days ago, we talked about the uniqueness of each of the four countries we visited and the amazing people that made our tour enjoyable. We want to conclude these refle... Read more

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Decolonial Marxism: Essays from the Pan-African Revolution – A Review

Posted By: adminon: January 24, 2024In: Words and WorldTags: Amilcar Cabral, Anibal Quijano, C L R James, Coloniality Working Group, Decolonial Marxism, Decolonisation, Eurocentrism, Femi Taiwo, Global South, Julius Nyerere, Ngugi Wa Thiongo, Prof Gurminder Bhambra, Sociologist Immanuel Wallerstein, Walter Mignolo, Walter Rodney, ‘Rodney Riots’No CommentsViews:
Decolonial Marxism: Essays from the Pan-African Revolution - A Review

There are two reasons against publishing this article. One, it is too long. Two, it will confuse those who are not already at home with the different domains of Marxism and decoloniality. Bu... Read more

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Does Decolonisation in the West Do Anything for the Developing World?

Posted By: adminon: April 17, 2023In: Words and WorldTags: Asia, Decolonisation, Developing world, diversity and inclusion, Equity, InternationalisationNo CommentsViews:
Does Decolonisation in the West Do Anything for the Developing World?

By Prof Farish A Noor Decolonisation argument continues to generate debates around it, with the author of this – a Historian at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, the University of Mal... Read more

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Christianity, Not Colonialists, Brought Modernity to West Africa – Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, the African Professor Against Decolonisation

Posted By: adminon: October 27, 2022In: BookspaceTags: Africa, Anthropology, Christianity, Colonialism, Decolonisation, Kant, ModernityNo CommentsViews:
Christianity, Not Colonialists, Brought Modernity to West Africa - Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, the African Professor Against Decolonisation

Apart from Queen Mary University of London’s Dr. Clive Gabay’s book, Imagining Africa: Whiteness and the Western Gaze, Prof Olufemi Taiwo’s book, Against Decolonisation must be the most cont... Read more

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Nigeria’s Prof Olufemi Taiwo Mentioned in Prospect Magazine’s 50 Top Thinkers in the World

Posted By: adminon: July 24, 2022In: BookspaceTags: Cornell University, Decolonisation, Knowledge – power nexus, NIGERIANo CommentsViews:
Nigeria's Prof Olufemi Taiwo Mentioned in Prospect Magazine's 50 Top Thinkers in the World

Prof Olufemi Taiwo, the author of Against Decolonisation: Taking African Agency Seriously is among the 50 individuals that UK’s ideas magazine – Prospect – considers as the... Read more

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Prof Olufemi Taiwo Interrupts Decolonisation Theory in a New Book

Posted By: adminon: July 06, 2022In: BookspaceTags: Cornell University, Decolonisation, Knowledge – power nexus, NIGERIANo CommentsViews:
Prof Olufemi Taiwo Interrupts Decolonisation Theory in a New Book

It is a 2022 publication. But currency is not the only unique selling point of Professor Olufemi Taiwo’s Against Decolonisation: Taking African Agency Seriously. A book questioning the empow... Read more

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Return to Samir Amin to Go Beyond Eurocentrism

Posted By: adminon: May 06, 2022In: World From AfricaTags: Decolonisation, Delinking, Eurocentrism, Global North, Global South, Karl Marx, Monopoly Capital, Orientalism, Paul Baran, Paul Sweezy, Prof Edward Said, Prof Samir Amin, Unequal Development, Unequal ExchangeNo CommentsViews:
Return to Samir Amin to Go Beyond Eurocentrism

“If you really want decolonization, go beyond cultural criticism to the deep structural insights of economist Samir Amin”. So says the above piece whose author also insists on such a rigid d... Read more

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Slavery Has Left Africans Stranded – Prof Chima Anyadike (2)

Posted By: adminon: September 10, 2019In: People in ActionTags: (Atlantic) Slave Trade, CHINA, Chinua Achebe, Decolonisation, English, French, Ngugi Wa Thiongo, PortugueseNo CommentsViews:
Slavery Has Left Africans Stranded – Prof Chima Anyadike (2)

The first part of this interview published on this platform September 9th was titled “Unless We Decolonise Our Minds, Freedom is Far – Chima Anyadike, Retiring OAU, Ile-Ife Professor”. The t... Read more

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