Decolonising Knowledge Systems/Decolonising Ethiopian Studies
Channel: Conversations in Ideas
Date: 2019-03-17

In this episode, Conversations in Ideas explores the coloniality of knowledge systems and the debate around the decolonization of epistemic hegemonies. The knowledge(s), values, and mythologies that underpin the global epistemic order are unthinkingly European and that modernity, with all its legacies, continued to maintain a logic of coloniality, resulting in what some describe as ‘epistemic violence’. We will discuss: who produces the knowledge(s) we consume and what is the effect of such an indiscriminate and uncritical turn to ideas with problematic genealogy? We will zoom in on Ethiopia and look at Ethiopian studies and the call to ‘decolonize’ it.