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Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni Quotes

born 1968

Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni (born 6 June 1968) is a Full Professor of History and holder of Canada Research Chair (CRC) Tier 1 in Pluralistic Societies:Epistemic Pluralism and Ecologies of Knowledges at the University of Calgary in Canada.

Socialists

Random Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni quote

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

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

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

"Coloniality must be unmasked, resisted and destroyed."

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

"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."

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.