![]() For others, it raises a complaint still worth addressing: that knowledge production, across universities, media and culture, remains built on a foundation that marginalizes non-Western sources of knowledge. ![]() ![]() So, we are naturally forced to ask: What counts as ‘authentic’ decolonization in 2020?” For some, decolonization, and its attendant concepts like “decoloniality,” have become something of an empty signifier, too much of a catch-all to meaningfully refer to anything. With hundreds of thousands of ‘decolonize’ hashtags, several articles, op-eds, and surveys on the subject-and plenty of Twitter fighting over the term-one thing is clear: decolonization is all kinds of trendy these days. As the literary scholar and a regular contributor to the site, Bhakti Shringarpure, recently wrote on Africa Is a Country, “Decolonization has taken over our social media timelines with a vengeance. ![]()
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