Join us for the final Sussex Development Lecture this term, with guest lecturer Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Professor at the Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University and author of the highly acclaimed book Against Decolonisation: Taking African Agency Seriously.
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Why doesn’t the world beat its path to Africa’s doors when it comes to intellectual engagement? To finding African insights into the human condition beyond those compelled by pity for the prostrate condition of poor Africans? To identifying, studying, and arguing with African answers to the perennial questions of philosophy? Why is Africa-inflected knowledge produced by African scholars, whether in Africa or its growing new Diaspora, not reckoned with, referenced, or engaged by others both in and outside of academia the world over?
Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò has always been concerned by the erasure of African-produced knowledges in global discourses, even those concerning Africa. In this lecture, he argues that some of the causes can be traced to some of the motivations behind the decolonisation scholarship that he asks that we dispense with in his book, Against Decolonisation: Taking African Agency Seriously.
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Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Professor, Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University.
Chair
Anne-Meike Fechter, Professor of Anthropology and International Development, School of Global Studies, University of Sussex.
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