African arguments against decolonisation
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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.
Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò 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. Táíwò’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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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 30 juni 2022
Aantal pagina's: 368
Hoofdauteur: Olufemi Taiwo
Hoofduitgeverij: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Editie: 1
Product breedte: 126 mm
Product hoogte: 24 mm
Product lengte: 190 mm
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 140 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 26 mm
Verpakking lengte: 214 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 648 g
EAN: 9781787386921