Africa: Decolonizing Knowledge
Activity finished
- Where
- CCCB
- Adress
- Montalegre, 5, Barcelona
- Format
- Conversation/Conference
The European colonization of Africa meant the plundering and destruction of its populations’ ways of life, but also a process of cultural dispossession and the imposition of ideas, categories and ways of knowing. In her studies, sociologist and activist Oyèrónkẹ Oyěwùmí highlights the privileged role that European conceptual frameworks continue to play in defining the world today and calls for the need to de-universalize knowledge and to explain Africa to the world from an African viewpoint, using its own categories and interpretations.
Using examples present today in African societies, Oyěwùmí will analyse the links that exist between the categories of gender and race, coloniality and knowledge, to ask what Eurocentrism is, what role it plays in our way of understanding the world, and the challenges represented by the decolonization of knowledge.
This activity is part of the CCCB's "Talks for high school students" sessions and prior registration is required.
- Tipology
- Face to face (with prior booking)
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- Moderator
- Miquel Missé
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- Participants
- Oyèrónké Oyewùmí
- Language
Catalan
English- Additional information
The activity will be held at Pati de les Dones
