Against Decolonization: Taking African Agency Seriously Tw Olfemi
Against Decolonization: Taking African Agency Seriously Tw Olfemi Decolonization has lost its way. He argues that the decolonization industry, obsessed with cataloguing wrongs, is seriously harming…
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Against Decolonization: Taking African Agency Seriously Tw Olfemi
Decolonization has lost its way. He argues that the decolonization industry, obsessed with cataloguing wrongs, is seriously harming scholarship on and inAfrica. 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.Olfemi Tw fiercely rejects the indiscriminate application of 'decolonization' to everything from literature, language and philosophy to sociology, psychology and medicine.
Worst of all, today's movement attacks its own cause: decolorizers themselves are disregarding, infantilizing and imposing values 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.