Resisting the Identity Police: A Critique of Decoloniality Theory

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Kavish Chetty is a PhD candidate in the English Literary Studies Department at the University of Cape Town (https://www.kavishchetty.com/;   / kavishchetty  .

Much of the critique in this presentation focuses on Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni’s book Epistemic Freedom in Africa: Deprovincialization and Decolonization (https://www.routledge.com/Epistemic-F....

The book referred to as a “hagiography” is Toyin Falola’s uncritical intellectual biography of Professor Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni and African Decolonial Studies (https://www.routledge.com/Sabelo-Ndlo....

The University of Cape Town Curriculum Change Framework is a public university document which can be viewed here: https://www.news.uct.ac.za/images/use....

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