In this fourth episode, Prof. Ndlovu Gatsheni looks at how being human itself was colonised through the colonial matrices of power with some individuals being at the top of an invisible social pyramid and others at the bottom.
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
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Resources
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Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Sabelo J., and Patricia Pinky Ndlovu. “The Invention of Blackness on a World Scale.” Essay. In Decolonising the Human: Reflections from Africa on Difference and Oppression, edited by Melissa E. Steyn and William Mpofu, 25–45. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2021. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.18772/22021036512.
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