Against Decolonization
Taking African Agency Seriously
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Narrated by:
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Amir Abdullah
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By:
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Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò
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Decolonization has lost its way. Originally a struggle to escape the West's direct political and economic control, it has become a catch-all idea, often for performing "morality" or "authenticity;" it suffocates African thought and denies African agency.
Olúfemi Táiwò fiercely rejects the indiscriminate application of 'decolonization' to everything from literature, language and philosophy to sociology, psychology and medicine. He argues that the decolonization industry, obsessed with cataloguing wrongs, is seriously harming scholarship on and in Africa. He finds 'decolonization' of culture intellectually unsound and wholly unrealistic, conflating modernity with coloniality, and groundlessly advocating an open-ended undoing of global society's foundations. Worst of all, today's movement attacks its own cause: "decolorizers" themselves are disregarding, infantilizing and imposing values on contemporary African thinkers.
This powerful, much-needed intervention questions whether today's 'decolonization' truly serves African empowerment. Táiwò's is a bold challenge to respect African intellectuals as innovative adaptors, appropriators and synthesizers of ideas they have always seen as universally relevant.
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- H. P.
- 09-08-23
Anticolonial, but not decolonial
A tour-de-force: a powerful case for how equating modernity with coloniality is both factually and morally wrong.
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- Amazon Customer
- 30-12-23
Deep and hard hitting
The richest and most diverse continent on earth need not limit itself from the feeble mimetic grand narratives of progressives & decolonial activists.
See also Rasheed Griffith & John McWhorter.
Excellent listen full of powerful paradigm shifting ideas.
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