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

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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."”

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“"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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