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_aTáíwò, Olúfẹ́mi _d1956- _eauthor |
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_aAgainst Decolonisation _btaking african agency seriously. |
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_aLondon _bHurst _c2022 |
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| 300 | _aXVII, 270 p. | ||
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| 490 | 0 | _aAfrican arguments | |
| 520 | 3 | _aDecolonisation 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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_aDecolonization _zAfrica |
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_aAfrica _xIntellectual life. |
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_2KUL _a#SBIB:39A3 _xAntropologie: geschiedenis, theorie, wetenschap (incl. grondleggers van de antropologie als wetenschap) _yAnthropology: history, theory and science |
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_2KUL _a#SBIB:39A73 _xEtnografie: Afrika _yEthnography: Africa |
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