USA Africa Dialogue Series -

We have mostly and increasingly since the 20thC continued to spend (and sometimes understandably) much of our scholarship or creativity time (day after day, night after night, week after week, month after month, year after year, decade after decade) laboring (digging more and more deeply, digging more and more extensively) in the saintly name of DEcoloniztion. In a "Biko-like" statement, I say, the greatest weapon of ANY oppressor (regardless of his or her DEI or geo-political cultural status or identity) is THE MIND of the oppressor. Decolonization. Authentic DEcolonization often begins with one's self and the selves of others (aka "we" as individuals and "they" as the others or we in relation with the others (regardless of their DEI identities). The quasi biblical cliche holds: first DECOLONIZE thyself before trying to DEcolonize others. Almost every culture at some point or another is both an oppressor and an oppressed. When will monomaniacal pursuit of DEcolonizationa reach its tipping point? When will the authentic development of our selves begin in earnest? My coda: a semi Professor Lumumba point -- What about those of us who continue to consume most of what we don't  produce and produce most of what we don't consume? 

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On Monday, December 30, 2024 at 11:33:22 PM CST, Cornelius Hamelberg <corneliushamelberg@gmail.com> wrote:

Decolonial Sweden | Michael McEachrane, Louis Faye

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