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Decolonisation in practice: what should Northern and Southern scholars do? II 
Convenors:
Faisal Garba (University of Cape Town)
Manuela Boatca (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg)
Akosua Darkwah (University of Ghana)
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Format:
Panel
Stream:
African Studies
Location:
Room 1224
Sessions:
Wednesday 8 June, -
Time zone: Europe/Berlin

Short Abstract:

This panel brings together researchers based in Africa and Europe who have been grappling with what it means to think and do decolonisation in the classroom, in framing research and through writing and public intellectualism.

Long Abstract:

Following years of work by scholars (working out of the South and the global North), recent student protests on the African Continent and mobilisation of people of colour in the United States and some parts of Western Europe, the call for decolonisation has assumed renewed importance. From a marginal and often ignored discourse, universities, professional associations and individual scholars have had to engage decolonisation or partake in decolonisation talk. Prior to the renewed prominence of decolonisation, there were initiatives on the African Continent, the African Diaspora and among critical scholars in the North to centralise colonialism in knowledge production and the understanding of global political economy and everyday life. While these efforts have yielded a great deal of important scholarship, the practicalities of doing decolonisation in terms of what is taught, what is the unit of analysis, and who bears what responsibility to rectify absences in the curriculum are still questions that scholars interested in decolonisation are pondering. This panel brings together researchers based in Africa and Europe who have been grappling with what it means to think and do decolonisation in the classroom, in framing research and through writing and public intellectualism. It among other things asks old questions in light of contemporary realities: Why should scholars based in Africa have to cite scholars from the global North for their papers to count as worthy of publication? Why is engaging African scholarly output not a requirement for Northern Scholars writing about Africa? How can this deeply embedded differentiated expectation be remedied? Following Connell (2007: viii) how can scholars in the global North learn “about” the texts of scholars in Africa and also learn “from” such texts?

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Session 1 Wednesday 8 June, 2022, -
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