Taiwo Olufemi
Taiwo Olufemi - Against Decolonisation Taking African Agency Seriously - Paperback
Taiwo Olufemi - Against Decolonisation Taking African Agency Seriously - Paperback
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Description: 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. Ol f mi T w 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. T w's is a bold challenge to respect African intellectuals as innovative adaptors appropriators and synthesisers of ideas they have always seen as universally relevant.
Title: Against Decolonisation Taking African Agency Seriously
Author(s): Taiwo Olufemi
Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Barcode: 9781787386921
Pages: 368 Pages
Publication Date: 9/15/2022
Series: African Arguments
Category: Political Science & Theory
Description: 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. Ol f mi T w 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. T w's is a bold challenge to respect African intellectuals as innovative adaptors appropriators and synthesisers of ideas they have always seen as universally relevant.
Title: Against Decolonisation Taking African Agency Seriously
Author(s): Taiwo Olufemi
Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Barcode: 9781787386921
Pages: 368 Pages
Publication Date: 9/15/2022
Series: African Arguments
Category: Political Science & Theory
