White Supremacism and Global Colonial Continuities

Abstract

This chapter examines why decolonising knowledge production remains necessary to confront white supremacy in Africa. It is a truism that Africa's epistemic landscape remains entrapped within the undertones of white supremacist logic even as the continent now boasts of almost 70 years after the first African states' attainment of independence from colonial rule. Africans must begin to question the efficacy of the erstwhile colonisers' education system in pushing for Africa's development. Africa's epistemological foundations remain deliberately positioned to sustain white supremacy perennially. The epistemological landscape is one characterised by discrimination and marginalisation of African epistemology. This chapter is a deliberate modest attempt to expose the fallacy of white supremacy and burst the myths of the global colonial continuities attempting to sustain a Eurocentric normative epistemological landscape.