Episode 3: Colonisation of Being

Keywords

  • coloniality of being
  • coloniality of knowledge
  • coloniality of power
  • colonial matrices of power

 

 

Interviewer
Patricia Pinky Ndlovu

Concept & Content Development
Thando Tilmann and Tamar Sarkissian

Film Team
Dr. Johanna Ickert, René Arnold and Andrew Berry

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