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

Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni See all quotes by Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni →

React to this quote

More by Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni

“"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."”

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

Resonant Thoughts

"Since geometry is co-eternal with the divine mind before the birth of things, God himself served as his own model in creating the world , and he with his own image reached down to humanity."

— Johannes Kepler

Science1571–1630

#religion

"In the interests of our people, and of other people in this part of the world, let's work together. Why do we have to exclude people because of their colour, whether they are white, brown, yellow or b…"

— Ian Smith

Politics1938

#philosophy

"I swear to you, you're missing the whole point of the Jesus Prayer. The Jesus Prayer has one aim, and one aim only. To endow the person who says it with Christ-Consciousness. Not to set up some little…"

— J. D. Salinger

fiction1919–2010

#religion

"The word Imperialism still has to many people in this country a rather sinister meaning. They associate it—wrongly in my view and in your view—the idea of exploitation, of riding roughshod over the wo…"

— Stanley Baldwin

Politics1867–1947

#justice