On the coloniality of language

The College of Human Sciences hosted its first 2020 Afrika Speaks lecture as a webinar on 5 August 2020. Everisto Benyera, Associate Professor of African Politics in the Department of Political Sciences, unpacked the topic Language, networks of decoloniality, and social capital: On the coloniality of language and the African problem.

Benyera began his lecture by quoting from Chapter 20 of Things fall apart by Chinua Achebe. "The church had come and led many astray. Not only the low-born and the outcast but sometimes a worthy man had joined it. Such a man was Ogbuefi Ugonna, who had taken two titles, and who like a madman had cut the anklet of his titles and cast it away to join the Christians… But apart from the church, the white men had also brought a government."

You can also watch the lecture on Google Drive.

* By Khabonina Maduna, Communications and Marketing Specialist, College of Human Sciences

Publish date: 2020-08-24 00:00:00.0

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On the coloniality of language

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