‘Conversational Decoloniality’: Re-Imagining Viable Guidelines for African Decolonial Agenda
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This article identifies the agenda of decoloniality as a call to seek solutions Africa’s problems from within herself (Africa). has its hold in colonial and post-independent attempts by African Nationalists, writers, freedom fighters philosophers defend cultural heritages, even against underestimation scholars other climes world. It further argues that, though justice done this quest would afford Africa regain her existential humanism global setting, defence heritages not yielded much-desired efforts due largely methodological error. observed that often, attempt free their intellectual outputs European ethnocentric postulations, overbears indigenous idea decolonial projects. error is noted be consequence tendency deify worldviews thought processes. Employing conversational method philosophising Chimakonam (2015, 2017a, 2017b, 2018), interrogate for decolonisation re-Africanisation. decolonisation. concludes decolonised process would, among things, appropriate scholarly response denigrations underestimations cultures traditions. also framework achieving self-definition modern world without compromising identity.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Phronimon
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['1561-4018', '2413-3086']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.25159/2413-3086/11479