Episode 9: Ecologies of Knowledge, African Archive

Resources

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Crenshaw, Kimberlé W. On Intersectionality: Essential Writings. New York: The New Press, 2017.

“Decolonising Modern Social Theory – Prof Gurminder K Bhambra.” Video, 9:39. Youtube. Posted by Connected Sociologies, 2021. https://youtu.be/9_R_NcBQeRU.

Falola, Toyin. Decolonizing African Knowledge: Autoethnography and African Epistemologies. African Identities: Past and Present. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. doi:10.1017/9781009049634.

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Kumalo, Siseko H. “Resurrecting the Black Archive through the Decolonisation of Philosophy in South Africa.” Essay. In Decolonising Curricula and Pedagogy in Higher Education: Bringing Decolonial Theory into Contact with Teaching Practice, edited by Shannon Morreira, Kathy Luckett, Siseko H. Kumalo, and Manjeet Ramgotra. London: Routledge, 2021.

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Mbebe, Achille. “Decolonizing Knowledge and the Question of the Archive”. Speech, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2015. https://wiser.wits.ac.za/system/files/Achille%20Mbembe%20-%20Decolonizing%20Knowledge%20and%20the%20Question%20of%20the%20Archive.pdf

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Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Sabelo J., Rüdiger Seesemann, and Christine Vogt-William. “African Studies in Distress: German Scholarship on Africa and the Neglected Challenge of Decoloniality.” Africa Spectrum 57, no. 1 (2022): 83–100. https://doi.org/10.1177/00020397221080179.

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