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{"title":"<i>Ke mosali oa Mosotho</i> : reflecting on indigenous conceptions of womanhood in Lesotho","authors":"Neo Mohlabane","doi":"10.1080/02533952.2023.2280407","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02533952.2023.2280407","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThis paper challenges the invisibilisation and silencing of indigenous conceptions of womanhood in feminist scholarly work. It argues that “Mosotho woman,” as we know it today, is a colonial construct for it is located within and fixed to hetero-patriarchal binarised hierarchies. It further argues for the reflection on historical narratives of women the likes of ‘Manthatisi of the Batlokoa as exceptional representations of precolonial conceptions of womanhood in Lesotho. As we interrogate the current invocations of “woman” in Lesotho, we ought to use these herstories as springboards to understand the silenced indigenous conceptions of bosali (womanhoods) that are not only complex but multifarious and beyond the confines of binarised hetero-patriarchal constructions. Drawing on the narrated life stories of 20 “never-married” women – methepa – the paper discusses boithlompho (self-respect), mosali oa ‘mankhonthe (perseverance), sexual empowerment, and botho (personhood) as underpinning the indigenous definitions of bosali. This paper argues for retrieval, elevation, and continuation of indigenous languages, rituals, and spaces as sources of knowledge and theory on womanhoods in local contexts.KEYWORDS: WomanhoodsexualityindigenoushistoriographyLesothodecolonial African feminism Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1. The Beauvoirean scholarship refers to second wave feminisms in Europe and America. This scholarship critiques the patriarchal construction of womanhood and its limitation to specific attributes which ultimately inform and justify the relegation of women to an inferior position compared to men in society.2. Whilst this scholarship usefully presents a contradictory theoretical stance against universalist, Eurocentric conceptions of identity, including womanhood, its major weakness is its tendency of essentialising African womanhood to motherhood and romanticising African women’s power (Bakare-Yusuf Citation2003) in ways that problematically disregard women’s realities in contemporary African societies. In particular, the tendency to essentialise motherhood – as the bedrock of African womanhood and African women’s power – marks this conception as exclusionary of those women who are not mothers. Further, in speaking of female, maternal power, this conception is exclusionary of hetero-patriarchally marginalised groups such as transgender women.3. Basali ba Basotho is the plural of mosali oa Mosotho and it is directly translated as women of the Basotho. I opted not to use “Mosotho woman” or Basotho women because this is a misuse of Sesotho nouns as English adjectives. In furthering the decolonial break that this paper is making, I was cautious not to continue this colonial misuse of Sesotho words. Instead, I use women in Lesotho to refer to women generally and methepa to refer to the participants of this study. Notable is the different orthography of Sesotho written in Lesotho compa","PeriodicalId":51765,"journal":{"name":"Social Dynamics-A Journal of African Studies","volume":"39 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135037037","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Strategic protest and the negotiation of legibility in Cape Town: a case study of Reclaim the City","authors":"Matthew Michael Wingfield","doi":"10.1080/02533952.2023.2265598","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02533952.2023.2265598","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThe forms of protest and the related tactics that structure them are often linked to a deliberate logic of disruption and contestation. From pickets aiming to impede foot traffic in public spaces, to more “spectacular” forms of protest such as setting public property alight, these decisions are often far from the spontaneous acts of “violence” that they are depicted as by various news agencies and similarly aligned public officials. Using the example of a social movement based in Cape Town, South Africa, named Reclaim the City, this article thinks through different forms of protest, and how they are leveraged and perceived by a range of actors. By framing this discussion through James Scott’s (1998) work on legibility, this paper argues that social movements and similarly composed groups strategically navigate the process of being made legible by the state at different points for various reasons.KEYWORDS: Legibilityactivismslow activismhousingprotest Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1. An “escrache” is a form of public protest that is aimed at “harassing” [sic], or rather influencing, public figures (Lunn Citation2013).Additional informationFundingThis work is based on the research supported by the South African Research Chairs Initiative of the Department of Science and Innovation and National Research Foundation of South Africa [Grant 98765].Notes on contributorsMatthew Michael WingfieldMatthew Michael Wingfield is a postdoctoral fellow at Stellenbosch University (under the SARChI Chair for Land, Environment, and Sustainable Development), the same institution where he received his PhD in 2022. His research and publication record spans the focus of spatial and environmental justice, with a particular underpinning of working-class alternatives and grassroots-founded futures.","PeriodicalId":51765,"journal":{"name":"Social Dynamics-A Journal of African Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135463070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Rituals, family connections, and <i>BoRakgadi</i>","authors":"Grace Khunou","doi":"10.1080/02533952.2023.2269759","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02533952.2023.2269759","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTAfrican feminists and decolonial scholars have shown the importance of centring African socio-cultural context in our study of African societies. This includes the signifying of African languages, rituals, and roles of individual members at different times and places. They argue and have provided evidence to illustrate how not doing so can be detrimental to our analysis. To illustrate the significance of reading African socio-cultural contexts as a text for understanding these societies, this article examines how ritual in relation to the role of BoRakgadi (paternal aunts) in African societies foregrounds the idea of women as important players in these communities and families. To foreground this argument, the article provides a brief literature overview on rituals to show its significance in building societal connections and belonging. The article then goes on to illustrate how the multiple roles played by BoRakgadi in family and societal rituals provide a lens into how African women have and continue to have a vital role in communities and families. In conclusion, this article illustrates how using gender as a lens should not take away from the context-specific ways it acts in various times and places, but rather it should be used as a lens to unbundle these particularities.KEYWORDS: RitualAfrican womenfamilyBoRakgadi Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1. Father’s younger brother.2. Father’s older brother.3. People in IsiZulu.4. Humanity in IsiZulu.5. Paternal aunts. Bo implies multiple. This is father’s sisters and is also used in reference to father’s female cousins. The husband to the father’s sister is also referred to as Rakgadi, suggesting that the roles and obligations of the Rakgadi are automatically imbued to the husband on marriage.6. Paternal aunt or father’s sister in SeTswana, SeSotho and SePedi, singular.7. Paternal aunt or father's sister in ShiVenda.8. Singular Person in IsiZulu.9. Kgotla is a gathering of a community to discuss community issues, to deal with infractions of shared laws and to offer solutions? In some contexts, Kgotla is defined in similar terms as a court of law, it is the highest institution for creating and maintaining order in a community.10. Singular person in SeSotho/SeTswana.Additional informationNotes on contributorsGrace KhunouGrace Khunou is a professor and currently Director Scholarship Change in the Department of Leadership and Transformation, Unisa. She engages in research with a focus on the Black condition. She writes creatively and academically and has published numerous articles and book chapters in national and international publications. Her Google Scholar citation index is currently 15 with over 700 citations. She has supervised over 40 research students and was awarded the post-graduate teacher award of the year (2020).","PeriodicalId":51765,"journal":{"name":"Social Dynamics-A Journal of African Studies","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135667336","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Intellectual decolonisation and the danger of epistemic closure: the need for a critical decolonial theory","authors":"Helen-Mary Cawood, Mark Jacob Amiradakis","doi":"10.1080/02533952.2023.2267772","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02533952.2023.2267772","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThis paper draws from the paradigm of Critical Theory (CT) and Decolonial Theory to engage in an introductory discussion on the need for a new methodological paradigm, namely a Critical Decolonial Theory. This is put forward in order to both argue for the imperative of introducing multiple narratives to the philosophical practice of contemporary social critique in South Africa, as well as to provide a cautionary note relating to how the decolonisation narrative itself could become a determinative ideology if it engages in what Lewis Gordon terms “epistemic closure.” While operating from within the framework and ideals of traditional CT and Amy Allen’s subsequent contribution to decolonising CT, we draw specifically from black practitioners of this critical philosophical tradition, namely Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Frantz Fanon, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Paulin Hountondji, and Achille Mbembe, in order to localise and ground our discussion of the need to problematise (i.e., consider both vindicatory and subversive aspects of) the decolonisation project.KEYWORDS: Critical decolonial theoryepistemic closuredecolonisationproblematising genealogy Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1. This critical methodology will be expanded upon in subsequent works. This article serves primarily as an introductory discussion regarding what the authors consider is a necessary addition to the decolonisation debate.2. This is what Adichie (Citation2009) refers to as a “single story” or an overly-narrow epistemic engagement with Africanness – whether in an existential sense or in the attempt to demarcate what is “African” in “African Philosophy.”3. It is in this regard that we draw from Bohman’s (Citation2021) distinction between “Critical Theory” (CT) and “critical theory,” in which he indicates that CT has both a narrow and a broad meaning. Bohman (Citation2021, n.p.) writes: “In the narrow sense, CT designates several generations of German philosophers and social theorists associated with the Frankfurt School. Furthermore, a ‘critical’ theory may be distinguished from a ‘traditional’ theory in relation to a specific practical purpose: a theory is critical to the extent that it seeks human ‘emancipation from slavery’, acts as a ‘liberating … influence’, and works ‘to create a world which satisfies the needs and powers’ of human beings (Horkheimer [Citation1937] Citation1972, 246). As such, many ‘critical theories’ in the broader sense have subsequently been developed. In both the broad and the narrow senses, a critical theory aims to provide the descriptive and normative bases for social inquiry aimed at decreasing domination and increasing freedom in all their forms. Thus, while CT is often thought of narrowly as referring to the Frankfurt School that begins with Horkheimer and Adorno, it can also be argued that any philosophical approach with similar practical aims could be called a ‘critical theory’.”4. This poin","PeriodicalId":51765,"journal":{"name":"Social Dynamics-A Journal of African Studies","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135992698","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Why recognition? Deciphering justice claims in 2016 Anglophone Crisis in Cameroon","authors":"Nancy Ngum Achu, Assel Tutumlu","doi":"10.1080/02533952.2023.2267767","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02533952.2023.2267767","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTScholars attribute the 2016 Anglophone Crisis in Cameroon to systematic marginalisation of the English-speaking minority whose rights are constitutionally guaranteed but remain violated. However, marginalisation fails to explain why the peaceful-Independent Anglophone Elites (IAEs), consisting of lawyers, teachers, civil society organisations and Anglophone associations at home and abroad, who stood behind the 2016 Crisis, refused to bolster claims over economic redistribution or political representation. Instead, in 2016 they chose to engage in the struggle for self-determination and recognition of the Anglophone identity. Through Nancy Fraser's identity model and in-depth interviews with IAEs, we show that they perceived the recognition claim and a return to a federal state as a guarantee not only to the survival of the IAEs, but also to the solution of other forms of injustices, such as misrepresentation, misrecognition, and maldistribution.KEYWORDS: Anglophone Crisisindependent Anglophone elitesFraser’s social justicerecognitionredistributionrepresentation, Cameroon Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).List of interviewees1. Interviewee #1 (Scholar, Political Scientist and Activist, ACSS, USA), interview data, March 21 2022.2. Interviewee #2 (Senior Advocate, Political Opponent, BAR, Bamenda), interview data, November 22 2021.3. Interviewee #3 (Scholar and Policy Expert, Nkafu Policy Institute, Yaounde), interview data, February 17 2022.4. Interviewee #4 (Journalist, Political Analyst, Author, Chicago), interview data, December 27 2021.5. Interviewee #5 (Commission Member and Political Expert, NCPBM Commission, Yaounde), interview data, November 21 2021.6. Interviewee #6 (policy Expert and Senior Associate, NDI, USA) interview data, February 17 20227. Interviewee #7 (Scholar and Writer, PAID-WA, Buea), interview data, March 21 2022.8. Interviewee #8 (Lawyer and Policy Analyst, BAR, Douala), interview data, March 21 2022.9. Interviewee #9 (Lawyer and Activist, BAR, Bamenda), interview data, February 17 2022.10. Interviewee #10 (Political opponent and Activist, CAMNAFAW Douala), personal communications, January 21 2022.Notes1. At the beginning of the 2016 Crisis, the Cameroon Anglophone Civil Society Consortium (CACSC), which became the first official voice in the Anglophone Crisis, also demanded a federation (Okereke Citation2018). After multiple abuses from the government military forces, and ensuing backlash from the public known as the “Coffin Revolution” (Caxton Citation2017), the Consortium leaders picked up the call for self-determination (Okereke Citation2018). Subsequently, its rebranded version SCACUF declared Independence of the State of Ambazonia (Chothia Citation2018). The alleged “State of Ambazonia” consists of the English-speaking Northwest and Southwest regions of Cameroon. They constitute a fifth of Cameroon’s population and host considerable agricultural lands and massive","PeriodicalId":51765,"journal":{"name":"Social Dynamics-A Journal of African Studies","volume":"143 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135758776","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Commanding the respect of all who knew her: recovering the marginalised history of Eleanor Xiniwe and the challenges of the colonial archive","authors":"Denver A. Webb","doi":"10.1080/02533952.2023.2267778","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02533952.2023.2267778","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTEarly mission-educated African intellectuals and activists in the Cape Colony in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries have received some attention from historians, but other than Charlotte Maxeke and Nokuthela Dube, few of the many women striving for political, economic and social rights have been studied in depth. Eleanor Xiniwe, a pioneering business person, is one whose story deserves to be better known. This article examines some of the challenges of the colonial archive in endeavours to recover neglected and marginalised histories: it sketches Eleanor Xiniwe’s life, explores her participation in the African Choir tour to Britain in 1891–92, examines her business interests and attempts to locate her history in the context of attempts by Africans to imagine an alternative future for themselves in colonial society at a time of hardening racial attitudes and increased discrimination.KEYWORDS: Eleanor XiniweAfrican ChoirAfrican women’s historypioneer African businessesKing William’s Towncolonial archive AcknowledgmentsMy interest in the Xiniwes began in the 1980s while working at the museum in Qonce. At the time I located Paul Xiniwe’s unmarked grave in the town cemetery and produced a small article on him as pioneer businessman, but soon realised that Eleanor was by far the more interesting historical personality. Thank you to Babalwa Magoqwana for inviting me to deliver a paper on her at the “Maternal Legacies of Knowledge: Rethinking the Sociology of the Eastern Cape” symposium in June 2021. I would like to thank Barbara Manning for bringing the existence of the photographs of the African Choir in the Hulton Archive (Getty Images) to my attention. Appreciation is also due to Xolela Mangcu, who is related to the Xiniwes through the Tyamzashes, for helpful comments on an early draft. A special thank you to Mcebisi Ndletyana for suggestions and for sharing ideas from his research on the history of the University of Fort Hare. A huge debt of gratitude is owed to my friend Andre Odendaal, whose pioneering book Vukani Bantu! opened my eyes to the world of the early African intellectuals and activists and whose comments on a draft of this article challenged me to reframe my thinking in a number of ways. Pamela Maseko kindly provided accurate translations of isiXhosa quotations in the text. Lastly, a special word of appreciation is extended to anonymous reviewers of Social Dynamics, who suggested fruitful avenues to explore and who challenged me to rethink sections of the article.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1. Les Switzer (Citation1993, 188) mistakenly refers to her as the sister of Paul Xiniwe. The brief entry in The Encyclopaedia Africana Dictionary of African Biography III, South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland (Citation1995, 244–245) made an important attempt to promote Eleanor Xiniwe’s history but in the absence of primary source material and detailed secondary","PeriodicalId":51765,"journal":{"name":"Social Dynamics-A Journal of African Studies","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135758925","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Rethinking Africa: indigenous women re-interpret Southern Africa’s pasts <b>Rethinking Africa: indigenous women re-interpret Southern Africa’s pasts</b> , edited by Bernadette Muthien and June Bam, Auckland Park, Jacana Media, 2021, 232 pp., ZAR 290.00 (paperback), ISBN: 978-1-928232-94-0","authors":"Chanel van der Merwe","doi":"10.1080/02533952.2023.2265602","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02533952.2023.2265602","url":null,"abstract":"Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes1. The Afrikaans words for herbs. Here I am referring to “wille als,” “buchu” and other plants I may not be aware of.2. This is a saying which literally means “advice from the elderly,” but it is used in context to mean the opposite of “scientific knowledge”.","PeriodicalId":51765,"journal":{"name":"Social Dynamics-A Journal of African Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135968175","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Pan-Africanism and psychology in decolonial times <b>Pan-Africanism and psychology in decolonial times</b> , by Shose Kessi, Babette Stephanie Gekeler, and Floretta Boonzaier, Cham, Palgrave MacMillan, 2022, 192 pp., €109.99 (hardcover), ISBN 9783030893507","authors":"Daniel Herwitz","doi":"10.1080/02533952.2023.2267776","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02533952.2023.2267776","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51765,"journal":{"name":"Social Dynamics-A Journal of African Studies","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135045085","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Decolonial Marxism, essays from the Pan African revolution <b>Decolonial Marxism, essays from the Pan African revolution</b> , by Walter Rodney, edited by Asha Rodney, Patricia Rodney, Ban Mabie and Jesse Benjamin, London, Verso, 2022, viii + 322 pp., US$20.49 (paperback), ISBN 9781839764110","authors":"Ahmet Sait Akçay","doi":"10.1080/02533952.2023.2265589","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02533952.2023.2265589","url":null,"abstract":"Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation & HUMA – Institute for Humanities in Africa, UCT; Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and HUMA – Institute for Humanities in Africa.","PeriodicalId":51765,"journal":{"name":"Social Dynamics-A Journal of African Studies","volume":"156 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135197467","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The decolonisation of the mind and history as an academic discipline","authors":"Irina Filatova","doi":"10.1080/02533952.2023.2232626","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02533952.2023.2232626","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT History as an academic discipline is going through a methodological crisis, caused by the decolonising revolution in historiography. Having emerged in the 1980s–2000s, the present-day decolonial theories have created a new dominant paradigm in the public consciousness and in a whole complex of academic disciplines. The aim of the decolonisation of the mind is to liberate these disciplines, first of all the humanities, from any vestiges of Eurocentrism. However, decolonialists operate in the realm of ideas and methodologies some of which are incompatible with the existence of history as an academic discipline, and which have long been rejected by researchers. A comparison of decolonising ideas in Africa with similar ideas in Russia helps to understand their origins and the detrimental effect that their uncritical acceptance may have on history as an academic discipline and on popular consciousness and politics.","PeriodicalId":51765,"journal":{"name":"Social Dynamics-A Journal of African Studies","volume":"49 1","pages":"313 - 331"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44612860","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}