Border gnoseology: Akwaeke Emezi and the Decolonial Other-than-Human

The underlying assumption when speaking about the postcolonial nonhuman is that other-than-human refers to what could be called, broadly speaking, “natural world,” as opposed “the human-as-Man,” but still usually understood in (Western) secular terms. Nevertheless, from perspective of African onto-epistemologies, can also refer spiritual world, or diverse assemblages between “natural,” human and sacred. Freshwater (2018) Dear Senthuran. A Black Spirit Memoir (2021), by Akwaeke Emezi, open up a space “border gnoseology,” where contemporary Anglo-American discourses on transsexuality intersect with ontologies epistemologies, specifically well-known figure ogbanje sacred python an avatar Ala, Earth goddess Igbo culture, produce radically subversive embodied subjectivity. ideas movement, transing, tranimalcy (transatlantic) crossing conspire dismantle conventional Eurocentric humanist views selfhood identity. Reading Emeke their own terms requires revisiting alternative notions temporality beyond secular, cisheteronormative, modern time, well understanding are indeed essential worldview processes subjectivation millions people across globe.