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Decolonizing the Mind
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Length:
52 minutes
Released:
Mar 20, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
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?
Original Air Date: March 20, 2021
Guests:
Adom Getachew — Simon Gikandi — Ngugi wa Thiong’o
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
Original Air Date: March 20, 2021
Guests:
Adom Getachew — Simon Gikandi — Ngugi wa Thiong’o
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
Released:
Mar 20, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
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