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Against Decolonisation - Taking African Agency Seriously (Paperback)
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Against Decolonisation - Taking African Agency Seriously (Paperback)
Series: African Arguments
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Loot Price R496
Discovery Miles 4 960
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Selected as one of '100 Notable African Books of 2022' in Brittle
Paper A leading African political philosopher's searing
intellectual and moral critique of today's decolonisation movement.
Decolonisation 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. Olufe mi
Taiwo fiercely rejects the indiscriminate application of
'decolonisation' to everything from literature, language and
philosophy to sociology, psychology and medicine. He argues that
the decolonisation industry, obsessed with cataloguing wrongs, is
seriously harming scholarship on and in Africa. He finds
'decolonisation' 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:
'decolonisers' themselves are disregarding, infantilising and
imposing values on contemporary African thinkers. This powerful,
much-needed intervention questions whether today's 'decolonisation'
truly serves African empowerment. Taiwo's is a bold challenge to
respect African intellectuals as innovative adaptors, appropriators
and synthesisers of ideas they have always seen as universally
relevant.
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