Despite the debilitating legacies of slavery and colonialis… - Sylvia Tamale

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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.

Sylvia Tamale

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About Sylvia Tamale

Sylvia Rosila Tamale is a Ugandan academic, and human rights activist in Uganda. She was the first woman dean in the law faculty at Makerere University, Uganda.

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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.

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.

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