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Combat is neither a virtue nor a new normal but a call to transform untenable material realities. This conceptual paper expands on Authentic Dialogic Cultural Synthesis Decolonial Theorising as a theoretical framework for a beyond the decolonial turn South-North and North-South collaboration.

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Authentic Dialogic cultural Synthesis Decolonial Theorising is a potential epistemic consciousness that can contribute towards a beyond decolonial turn collaborations that I gleaned reading the pedagogy of the oppressed by Paulo Freire and coloniality and Modernity/Rationality by Anibal Quijano as foundational texts. The aim of this library paper is to argue that epistemic combat is not a new normal but a strategy to level epistemic ground and to expand epistemic options. The first section of this paper is background to epistemic decolonisation which is pitched on the question, decolonising from what? The second section explores the idea of saving decoloniality from itself by unpacking the value of nomenclature, meta-narrative and discourse in decoloniality. Thirdly , the Freirean idea of authentic dialogic cultural synthesis and Animal Quijano's idea of decoloniality and compliance theorising are brought into a conversation to propose the Authentic Dialogical Cultural Synthesis Decolonial Theorising as a frame that can contribute to both the construction of other options of collaboration as well as to North-South mutual collaboration because worlds built on mutuality is better than ones built on difference. The last section proposes a model of dialogical cultural synthesis decolonial collaboration model. The conclusion will suggest possible ways forward in terms of Authentic Dialogic Cultural Synthesis Decolonial collaborations in a trans-epistemic geographies.