decolonization
Against Decolonization
In 2022, Olufemi Taiwo published “Against Decolonization: Taking African Agency Seriously” in the African Arguments series by Hurst. The book is provocative and makes some valuable contributions. I also find that the book has some faulty arguments of the straw man and red herring types. For example, in defining decolonization the way he does (see […]
Tags: #Against Decolonization #Agency #Colonization #decolonization #Olufemi Taiwo
Decolonizing Politics
Robbie Shilliam wrote “Decolonizing Politics: An Introduction” in 2021, and it is thankfully affordable for an academic book ($18). The book takes a different road to the conversation that ones I had read, and in that regard it was interest and a great place for new insights. The level of text is well suited […]
Tags: #decolonization #Decolonizing Politics #Politics #Racism #Shilliam
Moving the Centre: The Struggle for Cultural Freedoms
Ngugi wa Thiongo is a giant in the decolonization community, in 1986 he wrote Decolonizing the Mind, he also wrote Theory and the Politics of Knowing, Secure the Base, Something Torn and New, amongst many others (including a list of fiction works). This post shares some notes from his 1993 book Moving the Centre: The […]
Tags: #Cultural Freedom #decolonization #Language #Moving the Centre #Ngugi wa Thiongo
Whose Voice Matters in IPE?
New open access publication: Whose voice matters in the teaching and learning of IPE? Implications for policy and policy making Abstract: Critical decolonial assessments of International Political Economy (IPE) curricula have found a continued dominance of Euro-Western perspectives. However, these critical assessments have often been of specific programs or courses. In this article, we open the canvas wider […]
Epistemic Freedom in Africa
For students looking for an introduction to decolonization, or faculty looking to catch up on conversations they have been missing (or conversations they have avoided or actively sought not take part in), Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni has brought it together for you in Epistemic Freedom in Africa: Deprovincialization and Decolonization (2018). As the title implies, this book […]
Tags: #Africa #decolonization #Deprovincialization #Epistemic Freedom #Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni
Secure the Base
Secure the Base (2016) is a collection of speeches that Ngugi wa Thiong’o gave. His other works include Decolonizing the Mind (1986), An African Renaissance (2009) and Theory and Politics of Knowing (2012), amongst many others. A few quotes: “It is fair to say that ‘tribe’, ‘tribalism’ and ‘tribal wars’, the terms so often used […]
Tags: #decolonization #Education #Ngugi wa Thiongo #Tribalism #Tribe
Decolonising the University
Following demands – Rhodes Must Fall, Why is My Curriculum White?, #LiberateMyDegree – three editors brought together a diverse group of authors to think about what decolonising the university means (historically and pedagogically) and its experience (in universities and curricula) and reflections of those leading such efforts. Decolonising the University is edited by G. K. […]
Tags: #decolonization #decolonize #Decolonizing the university #Higher education #university
An African Renaissance: Ngugi wa Thiong’o
Ngugi wa Thiong’o is one of the most important voices on language and decolonization. His works include Decolonizing the Mind (1986) and Theory and Politics of Knowing (2012). This post shares some notes on his 2009 Something Torn and New: An African Renaissance (copy appears available here). “colonialists did not literally cut off the heads […]
Tags: #decolonization #decolonize #Language #Ngugi wa Thiongo #postcolonial
A Dying Colonialism – Fanon (1959)
Fanon is well known for his Black Skin, White Masks (1952) and Wretched of the Earth (1961). Another of his works, A Dying Colonialism (1957), seems less spoken about (originally titled L’An Cinq, de la Revolution Algerienne). The first chapter reminded me of Said’s Orientalism, which was written much later (1978). Going back to Orientalism, […]
Tags: #Colonialism #decolonization #Dying Colonialism #Europeanization #Frantz Fanon
Language & Governance in the African Experience
Notes from The Power of Babel: Language & Governance in the African Experience (1998) by Ali A. Mazrui and Alamin M. Mazrui” “One of the gross linguistic anomalies of post-colonial Africa, in fact, is that whole classes of countries are named after the imperial language they have adopted as their official language. We do constantly refer […]
Tags: #Africa #decolonization #Language #Mazrui #The Power of Babel
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Logan Cochrane
Associate Professor at HBKU in the College of Public Policy. He is an Associate Fellow of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences and an Adjunct Professor at Hawassa University (Institute for Policy and Development Research). Over the last fifteen years, he has worked in Afghanistan, Benin, Burundi, Canada, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. Logan acts as a consultant for governmental agencies and non-governmental organizations, seeking to create bridges between research and practice.
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