Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Universities and the legacy of colonial epistemicide

"The global spread of knowledge has been with us for some time," he says. No society or knowledge system has been left untouched by modernity, and communities across the globe have all been grappling with its consequences for several centuries.

"Yet, colonial conquest brings epistemicide. It's the killing and erasure of knowledge. If you conquer people, you want to impose your own knowledge on them. You put your archives on their archives."

So Oga Falola, which of your ideas did the university in Africa kill with epistemicide? Is it not more a case of epistemic theft, at least  in the sense that knowledgeable brains are drained away from the societies that produced them even with religious beliefs that did not originate in the west? The universities in Africa should be commended instead of being killed with epistemicide. They deserve reparative justice from countries that benefit from the foreign technical aid produced by graduates from home.

Biko

On Monday, 13 September 2021, 14:41:15 GMT-4, Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu> wrote:

https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20210908100721929

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