Critical Perspectives on Decoloniality

At a dark time in our history, this volume offers a rare lifeline. Speaking from places long marginal to the centers of planetary power, the authors in conversation here grapple with the contradictions so disfiguring civilization and society in the Global North. In proposing alternative, more generative ‘Southern’ sites for collective thinking and learning, they give acute, tangible meaning to the often-elusive task of decolonizing the production of knowledge. * Jean Comaroff, Harvard University, USA *

A fly in the ointment to the coloniality and cartesianism of north-centric “universal” theory, this volume enacts, through strategies of un-booking, onto-epistemological collaborations that promote new coalitions of understanding such that both the proverbial fly and the ointment learn and unlearn from each other in previously unsuspected, non-predatory ways.

Dorothy Takyiakwaa is Assistant Teaching Professor of African Studies, The Pennsylvania State University, USA.

Sinfree Makoni is Director of African Studies and Liberal Arts Professor of African Studies and Applied Linguistics, The Pennsylvania State University, USA.

Inviolata Vicky Khasandi-Telewa is Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow in African Studies, The Pennsylvania State University, USA.

Alissa J. Hartig is Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics, Portland State University, USA.