""Decoloniality is a way of thinking, knowing and doing.""

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“"The questioning and sometimes outright denial of African people's humanity inevitably enabled not only genocides but epistemicides, linguicides and cultural imperialism."”

“"African people had their own valid and legitimate indigenous systems of education prior to colonisation."”

“"Every human being is born into a valid and legitimate knowledge system."”

“"Coloniality must be unmasked, resisted and destroyed."”

“"What Africans must be vigilant against is the trap of ending up normalising and universalising coloniality as a natural state of the world."”

“"Coloniality is the invisible power structure that survived the end of direct colonialism."”

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