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Against Decolonisation

- Taking African Agency Seriously
Af: Olufemi Taiwo Engelsk Paperback

Against Decolonisation

- Taking African Agency Seriously
Af: Olufemi Taiwo Engelsk Paperback
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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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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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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 368
ISBN-13: 9781787386921
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1787386929
Kategori: Samfunds- & politisk filosofi
Udg. Dato: 30 jun 2022
Længde: 28mm
Bredde: 215mm
Højde: 140mm
Forlag: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Oplagsdato: 30 jun 2022
Forfatter(e): Olufemi Taiwo
Forfatter(e) Olufemi Taiwo

Kategori Samfunds- & politisk filosofi

ISBN-13 9781787386921

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 368

Udgave

Længde 28mm

Bredde 215mm

Højde 140mm

Udg. Dato 30 jun 2022

Oplagsdato 30 jun 2022

Forlag C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd