{"product_id":"against-decolonisation-taking-african-agency-seriously-9781787386921","title":"Against Decolonisation: Taking African Agency","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSelected as one of '100 Notable African Books of 2022' in \u003cem\u003eBrittle Paper \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA leading African political philosopher’s searing intellectual and moral critique of today’s decolonisation movement. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDecolonisation has lost its way. Originally a struggle to escape the West’s direct political and economic control, it has become a catch-all idea, often for performing ‘morality’ or ‘authenticity’; it suffocates African thought and denies African agency.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOlúfẹ́mi Táíwò fiercely rejects the indiscriminate application of ‘decolonisation’ to everything from literature, language and philosophy to sociology, psychology and medicine. He argues that the decolonisation industry, obsessed with cataloguing wrongs, is seriously harming scholarship on and in Africa. He finds ‘decolonisation’ of culture intellectually unsound and wholly unrealistic, conflating modernity with coloniality, and groundlessly advocating an open-ended undoing of global society’s foundations. Worst of all, today’s movement attacks its own cause: ‘decolonisers’ themselves are disregarding, infantilising and imposing values on contemporary African thinkers.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis powerful, much-needed intervention questions whether today’s ‘decolonisation’ truly serves African empowerment. Táíwò’s is a bold challenge to respect African intellectuals as innovative adaptors, appropriators and synthesisers of ideas they have always seen as universally relevant.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'It doesn’t happen very often, but now and again one comes across a book that is really transformative. An author who simply changes the narrative and argues so persuasively there is really little more to be said on the subject. Olufemi Taiwo’s \u003cem\u003eAgainst Decolonisation\u003c\/em\u003e is one such author and this is one such book.'\u003c\/p\u003e -- Martin Plaut, journalist and former Africa editor for BBC World Service News","brand":"C Hurst \u0026 Co Publishers Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48868404953431,"sku":"9781787386921","price":14.24,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781787386921.jpg?v=1722287880","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/against-decolonisation-taking-african-agency-seriously-9781787386921","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}