BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:15888-8cfebca330161f2ffc9a6c34adbd00e9@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260514T210254Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250816T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250816T110000 SUMMARY:African Studies Global Virtual Forum: Decoloniality and Southern Epistem ologies—Dion Nkomo DESCRIPTION:\nDion Nkomo\n\nRhodes University\, South Africa\n\nAbstract \n\nFrom Decolonising the Mind to Decolonizing Language and Other Revolu tionary Ideas\, Ngugi’s oeuvre presents decolonial scholarship that purs ues a paradigm shift from the Global North to the Global South modes of knowledge production. Critical of capitalism and inspired by socialism\, he powerfully demonstrates that the material conditions of victims of c olonialism are bound to remain precarious until they address the legacie s of cultural imperialism\, itself an accompanist to political and econo mic imperialism. His amazing foresight challenges the euphoria of politi cal independence\, drawing our attention to the necessity of nuance that critically draws a line between colonialism and coloniality. Implicatin g language in the entire colonial enterprise\, Ngugi centres the same in the decolonisation endeavour\, advocating for the use of indigenous lan guages of the colonised in all efforts of not only reclaiming past cultu ral and social glories but also in futuristic Afrocentric cultural and i ntellectual (re)productions. Inspired by these seminal arguments\, this presentation reflects on how (South) Africa has positioned language in t he country’s post-apartheid nation-building project. The focus is on the role of language in education\, particularly policy framing\, implement ation challenges\, and courageous activist-scholarly initiatives that se ek to transcend simplistic language policy compliance that often fails t o challenge colonial linguistic hierarchies.\n\nFor more details: https: //events.la.psu.edu/event/afr-global-virtual-forum-dion-nkomo/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Dion Nkomo
Rhodes University, South Africa

Abstract
From Decolonisi ng the Mind to Decolonizing Language and Other Revolutionary Ideas, Ngugi’s oeuvre presents decolonial scholarship that pursues a paradigm shift from the Global North to the Global South modes of knowledge produ ction. Critical of capitalism and inspired by socialism, he powerfully d emonstrates that the material conditions of victims of colonialism are b ound to remain precarious until they address the legacies of cultural im perialism, itself an accompanist to political and economic imperialism. His amazing foresight challenges the euphoria of political independence, drawing our attention to the necessity of nuance that critically draws a line between colonialism and coloniality. Implicating language in the entire colonial enterprise, Ngugi centres the same in the decolonisation endeavour, advocating for the use of indigenous languages of the coloni sed in all efforts of not only reclaiming past cultural and social glori es but also in futuristic Afrocentric cultural and intellectual (re)prod uctions. Inspired by these seminal arguments, this presentation reflects on how (South) Africa has positioned language in the country’s post-apa rtheid nation-building project. The focus is on the role of language in education, particularly policy framing, implementation challenges, and c ourageous activist-scholarly initiatives that seek to transcend simplist ic language policy compliance that often fails to challenge colonial lin guistic hierarchies.

For more details: https://events.la.ps u.edu/event/afr-global-virtual-forum-dion-nkomo/

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