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

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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."”

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

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