Decolonizing Knowledge: Re-Centering Africa and African Epistemologies in the Quest for Global Transformation | 16.06.2021
Online-Lecture by Prof. Oyeronke Oyewumi (Stony Brook University), open discussion afterwards
Online-Lecture by Prof. Oyeronke Oyewumi (Stony Brook University), open discussion afterwards
Date: 16.06.2021
Time: 6:15pm - 8:15pm
Title: Decolonizing Knowledge: Re-Centering Africa and African Epistemologies in the Quest for Global Transformation
Event Type: Workshop
Event Category: BMBF
Organisor: Kooperation von IRC "Interweaving Performance Cultures", Dahlem Humanities Center, Margerita-von-Brentano-Zentrum, International Week (FU Berlin)
Place: Online-Lecture (via Webex)
Currently, the call to decolonize universities, disciplines, social movements and even knowledge itself, resonates globally. Nowhere is the quest for social transformation more resonant than in Africa, and amongst peoples of African descent, given their centuries-old place in the unequal/unjust global system. Since its inauguration, Eurocentric epistemologies were foundational to the subjugation of conquered peoples and their continuing domination. Thus, the recovery of endogenous intellectual traditions is necessary as Africans seek to reclaim their sovereignty. The lecture will draw from my own decades-long research on African systems of knowledge, gender, race, decoloniality, and self-recovery.