Neuhaus Symposium (18-05-2019) Grace Ndjako. Decolonising Thought and African Philosophy

Grâce Ndjako DECOLONISING THOUGHT AND AFRICAN PHILOSOPHY Our ways of living and learning are intertwined with our colonial past, and therefore permeated by a biased normative vision of humanism. As Neuhaus tries to decentre some humanisms, it also means to re-centre others and to refocus our attention on other important but less dominant humanities and histories. In her lecture Grâce will take a critical look at European thought and the epistemologies it has produced, which have created ‘the other’. She will discuss African thinkers like Mogobe Ramose who works on decolonialising thought, as Frantz Fanon has called for in his “Les damnés de la terre”. These thinkers do the fundamental work of decolonising the notion of the human that has been presented to them for centuries.

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