Postcolonial Studies
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Making Knowledge African: Suren Pillay and the struggle to decolonise the university
A timely call to rethink how African history and knowledge can reclaim space in global narratives
Writing against the grain: Adekeye Adebajo’s Africa
Informed, provocative, and hopeful — Adebajo’s work resists reduction, embracing Africa’s plurality and persistent spirit
The contrapuntal voice of Africa, Valentin-Yves Mudimbe, has died
The Congolese philosopher, poet, novelist and bold advocate of African knowledge has died in the US where he lived and taught at Sandford and Duke universities since 1979
Examining colonial narratives and African representation in German literature
This is an edited extract of Henning Melber’s The Long Shadow of German Colonialism.