Intellectual Colonization - Keto

[The Talking Drum Collective]

"The world of Africans and descendants of Africans and the world of scholarship
about them is still the only one at the end of the Twentieth Century that
retains a 'colonial' signature whereby experts and authorities outside African
communities control knowledge creation and exceed experts inside those
communities. This does not apply to Europe, Asia or the Americas. This has led
to an unfortunate predilection among Africans to concede expert knowledge to
outsiders. African people have tended in the past to surrender the right to
academic self affirmation to others, thereby accepting conclusions of a
Eurocentric framework that have assigned a permanent peripheral role to the
Africa centered perspective in the world's growing knowledge industry. Indeed,
many of the 'authorities' who study and write about the African world and
exercise great influence over the outside world's perception of Africa and
Africans, the understanding of its value priorities, the vision of its future
and the capacity to define its very essence for insiders and outsiders alike,
often are not burdened with the knowledge of single African or African derived
language."

C. Tsehloane Keto
The Africa Centered Perspective of History