06/12/2023
The Institute of Cultural Studies,
Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria
cordially invites you to the next in the
*ICS WEBINAR SERIES
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TOPIC: African Identities in Colonial and Decolonial Horizons
DATE: 14th December, 2023. TIME: 3.00 WAT
As usual, the event will be bimodal, holding physically and virtually via Zoom.
The physical meeting will hold at the Faculty of Arts’ Board Room, Humanities Block II, OAU, Ile-Ife.
Virtual via zoom: https://bit.ly/ics-webdec
Chair: Professor Yunusa Kehinde Salami, Department of Philosophy, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife.
Discussant: Dr. M. B. Omigbule, Department of English, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife.
Presenter: Professor Morgan Ndlovu, a Professor and an NRF-rated researcher at the Centre for Education Rights and Transformation of the University of Johannesburg. He previously worked as a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Zululand and an Associate Professor of Development Studies at the University of South Africa, respectively. He is a transdisciplinary scholar with research interests in decolonizing knowledge and power, indigenous knowledge systems (IKS), curriculum and pedagogic studies, education rights, and transformation. His most recent publications include: Performing Indigeneity: Spectacles of Culture and Identity in Coloniality (Pluto), and Marxism and Decolonization in the 21st Century: Living Theories and True Ideas (Routledge). He is currently working on a research project tentatively titled: Decolonial Indigeneity: An Insight into the Idea of African Knowledges
Abstract
The production and reproduction of African identities in theory and praxis take place within what one can describe in terms of colonial and decolonial horizons. Thus, there is, on one hand, an Africanity produced in the consciousness of Western thought tradition, and another produced in the consciousness and divergent worldview and world sensing of African thinkers in their decolonial horizons. In the first instance, being and becoming African is primarily influenced and shaped by Western theo-politics and geopolitics of knowledge that led to the existential classifications of human species, land masses, and waters according to Western cartographic mappings of the world and hierarchization of identities and in the second instance, is the being and becoming African charted in the mold of the third nomos of the earth after the rupture of the colonial horizon of modernity. In this presentation, I seek to explicate the idea of being and becoming African within the framework of the inaugural moment of African entanglement in the colonial horizon of modernity as well as within the framework of the moment of disentanglement through the decolonial horizons.
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