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The scientific discourse about Africa has been overwhelmingly owned by the West/North. In fact, discourse ownership has been one of the most efficient instruments of Western/Northern domination in the post-colonial era. This section sets out to contribute to the solidification of an Africa-centred discourse by identifying, collecting and structuring scientific Africa-centred online content.
Kwame Opoku: A History of the World with 100 Looted Objects of Others: Global Intoxication?
Article by Kwame Opoku on the occasion of the the British Museum and the BBC announcement of a programme with the title: “A History of the World in 100 Objects”. A pretence, writes Kwame Opoku, to serving the whole world, a title which indicates a wider... |+| read article
Kwame Opoku: France returns looted artefacts to Nigeria: Beginning of a long process or an isolated act?
According to a report in the Nigerian Compass reproduced below, the French Government has returned to the Nigerian Government two artefacts looted during the colonial days. This is good news. We have in various articles demonstrated the illegality, the... |+| read article
Achille Mbembe: Cinquante ans de décolonisation africaine
Nous voici donc en 2010, cinquante ans après la décolonisation. Y a-t-il vraiment quoi que ce soit à commémorer ou faut-il au contraire tout reprendre ? Restauration autoritaire par-ci, multipartisme administratif par là, ailleurs maigres avancées au... |+| read article
Samir Amin: Repenser l’aide au développement
Article publié par |+| Pambazuka. Si, comme on le prétend, il y a dans l’aide deux « partenaires » - en principe égaux – le pays... |+| read article
Deutscher Kolonialismus: Aus Kriegsbeute wird Schenkung
Die koloniale Vergangenheit ist nicht einfach passé, sondern prägt unseren Alltag, unser Denken und unseren Blick auf die Welt bis heute. Auch sind ganz konkrete Spuren des Kolonialismus in der Stadt München zu finden. Hierzu zählt das Tangue, eine 1884... |+| read article
