In this first episode, Prof. Ndlovu Gatsheni defines decolonisation and introduces decolonial theory from a structural, epistemic and personal perspective.
Interviewer: Pinky Ndlovu
Hosts / Concept and Content Development:
Thando Tilmann and Tamar Sarkissian
Music: Gomo RaMutare by Matemai Mbira Group
Production: Berlin School of Podcasting
Resources
“Articles on Decolonisation.” The Conversation, n.d. https://theconversation.com/uk/topics/decolonisation-17372.
Chigudu, Simukai. “’Colonialism Had Never Really Ended’: My Life in the Shadow of Cecil Rhodes.” The Guardian, 2021. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/jan/14/rhodes-must-fall-oxford-colonialism-zimbabwe-simukai-chigudu.
“Decolonising Knowledge: What Is Decolonisation? | Rolando Vázquez Melken.” Video, 40:26. Youtube. Posted by Studium Generale Delft, 2021. https://youtu.be/1CUKW2h4Dtg.
Falola, Toyin, and Adam Paddock. The Women’s War of 1929: A History of Anti-Colonial Resistance in Eastern Nigeria. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2011.
Gott, Richard. Britain’s Empire: Resistance, Repression and Revolt. London; New York: Verso, 2011.
“Herero and Nama Genocide.” United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, n.d. https://www.ushmm.org/collections/bibliography/herero-and-nama-genocide.
Hyam, Ronald. Britain’s Declining Empire: The Road to Decolonisation, 1918-1968. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511802898.
Iliffe, John. “The Organization of the Maji Maji Rebellion.” The Journal of African History 8, no. 3 (1967): 495–512. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021853700007982.
Jenner, Greg, Marlene Daut, and Athena Kugblenu. “The Haitian Revolution.” Episode. You’re Dead To Me. BBC Radio 4, September 18, 2021. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08nf7t2.
Knight, David. “’There Was Injustice’ Skulls of Colonial Victims Returned to Namibia.” Der Spiegel, 2011. https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/there-was-injustice-skulls-of-colonial-victims-returned-to-namibia-a-788601.html.
Knight, Franklin W. “The Haitian Revolution.” The American Historical Review 105, no. 1 (2000): 103–15. https://doi.org/10.2307/2652438.
Mignolo, Walter D. “What Does It Mean to Decolonize?” Essay. In On Decoloniality: Concepts, Analytics and Praxis, edited by Walter D. Mignolo and Catherine E. Walsh, 105–34. On Decoloniality. Duke University Press, 2018.
Nkrumah, Kwame. Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism. London: Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd.,1965.
Oltermann, Philip. “Germany Agrees to Pay Namibia €1.1bn over Historical Herero-Nama Genocide.” The Guardian, 2021. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/28/germany-agrees-to-pay-namibia-11bn-over-historical-herero-nama-genocide.
Onishi, Norimitsu, and Melissa Eddy. “A Forgotten Genocide: What Germany Did in Namibia, and What It’s Saying Now.” The New York Times, May 28, 2021. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/28/world/europe/germany-namibia-genocide.html.
Opoku, Kwame. “Return of Stolen Skulls by Germany to Namibia: Closure of a Horrible Chapter?” Africavenir, 2014. https://www.africavenir.org/nc/news-details/article/kwame-opoku-return-of-stolen-skulls-by-germany-to-namibia-closure-of-a-horrible-chapter/print.html.
Porter, Catherine, Selam Gebrekidan, Matt Apuzzo, and Constant Méheut. “The Root of Haiti’s Misery: Reparations to Enslavers.” The New York Times, May 20, 2022. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/20/world/americas/haiti-history-colonized-france.html.
van Wyk, Bayron. “Apology and Reparations? Reflections on the Genocide Reparations Agreement between Germany and Namibia.” Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, September 21, 2021. https://www.rosalux.de/en/news/id/45028/apology-and-reparations.
Veracini, Lorenzo. Colonialism A Global History. London: Routledge, 2022.
Wilson, Tracy, and Holly Frey. “Women’s War of 1929.” Episode. Stuff You Missed in History Class. iHeartPodcasts, September 9, 2020. https://www.iheart.com/podcast/stuff-you-missed-in-history-cl-21124503/episode/womens-war-of-1929-71232386/.
Woldeyes, Yirga Gelaw. “The Battle of Adwa: an Ethiopian Victory That Ran against the Current of Colonialism.” The Conversation, 2020. https://theconversation.com/the-battle-of-adwa-an-ethiopian-victory-that-ran-against-the-current-of-colonialism-132360.
Resources
Ahmed, Sara. On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life. Durham: Duke University Press, 2012. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv1131d2g.
Costa Dias, Monica, Robert Joyce, and Xiaowei Xu. “Covid‐19 and Inequalities.” Fiscal Studies 41, no. 2 (2020): 291–319. https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-5890.12232.
Crenshaw, Kimberlé W. On Intersectionality: Essential Writings. New York: The New Press, 2017.
Fanon, Frantz. Black Skin, White Masks. Translated by Charles Lam Markmann. New York: Grove Press, 1967.
Gaffney, Adam. “Racism and Respiration.” Boston Review, 2021. https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/adam-gaffney-racism-and-respiration/?fbclid=IwAR1mfyQbbb5_GgxcbgaPZVihCDtkaFEHLLyn4UzA7p2J4_9PM9MpV3grhJo.
Hooks, Bell. Art on My Mind: Visual Politics. New York: The New Press, 1995.
Meldrum, Andrew. “Stealing Beauty.” The Guardian, 2016. https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2006/mar/15/art.
Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Sabelo J. “The Emergence and Trajectories of Struggles for an ‘African University’: The Case of Unfinished Business of African Epistemic Decolonisation.” Kronos Southern African Histories 43, no. 1 (2017): 51–77. https://doi.org/10.17159/2309-9585/2017/v43a4.
Smith, J. Goosby, and Josie Bell Lindsay. “Ubuntu in Action.” Essay. In Beyond Inclusion: Worklife Interconnectedness, Energy, and Resilience in Organizations, 183–98. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137385420_12.
Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003.
Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. “‘Can the Subaltern Speak?’ Revised Edition, from the ‘History’ Chapter of Critique of Postcolonial Reason.” Essay. In Can the Subaltern Speak? Reflections on the History of an Idea, edited by Rosalind C. Morris, 21–78. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/morr14384.
Thiongʼo, Ngũgĩ wa. Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature. London: James Currey, 1986.
Thiong’o, Ngũgĩ wa. Moving the Centre: The Struggle for Cultural Freedoms. London: James Currey, 1993.
Vergés, Françoise, Lesego Rampolokeng, David Macey, and Harriett Gilbert. “The Legacy of Frantz Fanon.” Episode. Meridian. BBC, 2000. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03m10c7.