Colonization in Africa was much more than a land grab. It was a project to replace — and even erase — local cultures. To label them inferior. Music, arts, literature and of course language. In other words, it permeated everything. So how do you undo that? How do you unlearn what you’ve been forced to learn?
In this hour, produced in partnership with the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI) and Africa is a Country — we learn what it means to decolonize the mind.
Original Air Date: March 20, 2021
Interviews In This Hour:
Reckon with the Past To Decolonize the Future — Reclaiming the Hidden History of Blackness — Never Write In The Language of the Colonizer
Guests:
Adom Getachew, Simon Gikandi, Ngugi wa Thiong’o
Never want to miss an episode? Subscribe to the podcast.
Want to hear more from us, including extended interviews and favorites from the archive? Subscribe to our newsletter.
For The Love Of Moms
Reframing the Portrait
Giving Up
Deep Time: How Earth Keeps Time
Luminous: Your Brain on Shrooms
Total Eclipse and Other Wonders
Does AI dream?
Let's Celebrate Crying
Taking Pop Seriously
One Nation Under God?
In Your Dreams
Luminous: What Can Psychedelics Teach Us About Dying?
To All The Dogs We've Loved
Listen to this: The What, Why and How of Intellectual Humility
Cult of the Self
Losing Yourself in Fantasy
Year of Return
Docupoetry
Deep Time: The Tyranny of Time
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
The Modern West
강유원의 책담화冊談話
The Art of Manliness
Dear Hank & John
Alan Watts Being in the Way
Cult of Conspiracy