Decolonizing the Mind

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🗓️ 2 March 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Colonization in Africa was much more than a land grab. It was a project to replace — and even erase — local cultures. To label them inferior. Music, arts, literature and of course language. In other words, it permeated everything. So how do you undo that? How do you unlearn what you’ve been forced to learn?

In this hour, produced in partnership with the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI) and Africa is a Country — we learn what it means to decolonize the mind.

Original Air Date: March 20, 2021

Interviews In This Hour:

Reckon with the Past To Decolonize the Future — Reclaiming the Hidden History of Blackness — Never Write In The Language of the Colonizer

Guests:

Adom Getachew, Simon Gikandi, Ngugi wa Thiong’o

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, it's Anne.
0:04.5	In 1960, 17 African nations declared their independence.
0:09.8	It was the year of Africa, an exciting time,
0:13.3	and the beginning of a decolonization project that continues today, and not only in Africa.
0:19.0	So many of the issues that preoccupy us right now,
0:22.4	race and identity, history, language,
0:25.3	what should and shouldn't be taught in school,
0:27.5	are part of an ongoing struggle to decolonize the mind.
0:31.8	In this episode of To the Best of Our Knowledge,
0:34.2	we'll talk about what that means and why it matters.
0:38.2	Keep listening.
0:44.6	Wisconsin Public Radio.
0:55.0	It's to the best of our knowledge. I'm Anne's Train Champs. And I'm Steve Paulson. And we want to start today by going back.
0:58.0	To March 6th, 1957, midnight.
1:01.0	Ah, that we put him out kind of day.
1:04.0	Before tens of thousands of people, Kwame and Krumah, leader of the Gold Coast Independence Movement, and now Prime Minister
1:12.0	of his country, steps on stage to make history.
1:15.1	At long last, the battle has ended.
1:33.3	And a... Has ended. We are God is free forever. And here I will
1:36.3	augment
1:37.3	to play the Ghana
1:40.3	National Antel.
	...

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