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A book discussion with Mahmood Mamdani: Slow Poison
Intellectual legacies of African thought
On decolonising knowledge...
Theory cannot be developed without reference points, and our objective must be to develop new and multiple reference points. Give up the obsession of comparing with the West. The world is larger than we have known.
Prof. (Hon.) Mahmood Mamdani, author, scholar and CAS affiliate, at UCT TB Davie Memorial Lecture, 2017.