Did you miss Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò's seminar? Read his lecture!

Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Chair at the Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University (USA), gave a well-visited and thought-provoking ASCL Seminar on 7 September 2023, entitled 'Africa's Second Struggle for Freedom: What's decolonisation got to do with it?' According to Táíwò, the overarching use of the concept decolonisation is unhelpful on several levels. It obscures African agency by focusing on the impact of the period of colonisation, just a few decades in the whole length of African history. He argues that applying the concept 'decolonisation' is actually a disservice to African empowerment, suffocating African intellectuals’ innovative thought.

If you missed the seminar, you can now read the text of his lecture. Or watch the video recording.