{"product_id":"against-decolonisation-taking-african-agency-seriously-9781787386921","title":"Against Decolonisation: Taking African Agency Seriously","description":"Decolonisation has lost its way. Originally a struggle to escape the West's direct political and economic control, it has become a catch-all idea, often for performing \"morality\" or \"authenticity;\" it suffocates African thought and denies African agency. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOlà femi TàÃ-wà  fiercely rejects the indiscriminate application of 'decolonisation' to everything from literature, language and philosophy to sociology, psychology and medicine. He argues that the decolonisation industry, obsessed with cataloguing wrongs, is seriously harming scholarship on and in Africa. He finds 'decolonisation' of culture intellectually unsound and wholly unrealistic, conflating modernity with coloniality, and groundlessly advocating an open-ended undoing of global society's foundations. Worst of all, today's movement attacks its own cause: \"decolorisers\" themselves are disregarding, infantilizing and imposing values on contemporary African thinkers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis powerful, much-needed intervention questions whether today's 'decolonisation' truly serves African empowerment. TàÃ-wà 's is a bold challenge to respect African intellectuals as innovative adaptors, appropriators and synthesizers of ideas they have always seen as universally relevant.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-16639709\"\u003eOlã°femi Tàã-Wã²\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Hurst \u0026amp; Co.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/15\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.86lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.35h x 5.53w x 0.91d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781787386921\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1787386929\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POL\"\u003ePolitical Science\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POL053000\"\u003eWorld | African\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-SOC\"\u003eSocial Science\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-SOC008000\"\u003eEthnic Studies | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOlúfemi Táíwò is Professor of African Political Thought and current Chair at the Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University. His writings have been translated into French, Italian, German and Portuguese. His book \u003cem\u003eHow Colonialism Preempted Modernity in Africa\u003c\/em\u003e won the Frantz Fanon Award in 2015.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hurst \u0026 Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44489520251117,"sku":"9781787386921","price":31.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_63e1462f-a949-4465-96f7-9d06d81ff745.jpg?v=1700868804","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/es\/products\/against-decolonisation-taking-african-agency-seriously-9781787386921","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}