Sylvia Tamale

Quotes

• “Despite the debilitating legacies of slavery and colonialism that continue to hold our continent and perpetuate global geopolitical and economic imbalances, I think Africa will inevitably rise like those many heads of the hydra whereby you strike one and another one that is twice as strong emerges.”
• “Definitely. I think African futurism and the interdisciplinary genre and movement hold a lot of promise for the imaginaries of our people.”
• “Now, never underestimate the power of the mind. What African futurism does is harness that power into action. It empowers us to craft the future that we want.”
• “Africa will inevitably rise like those many heads of the hydra, but first it needs a decolonial break from the tether that ties its economies to the global capitalist market.”
• “Colonialism maintains a stranglehold on knowledge production through an elaborate publication infrastructure largely based in the global North...[to] gatekeep what qualifies as "legitimate" publishable knowledge.”

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