Decolonizing African Studies/ Decolonizing Our Minds

Decolonizing African Studies is bold call to action and challenges us to rewrite our History through African lens. There is no Africa in African Studies says it all. The writer convicts Europeans of writing about Africa without any understanding of the rich and diverse cultures that the African continent possesses. This reading also challenges us to take our destiny in our hands by taking control of our own narrative thus reshaping it in the face of the mean-spirited western media. It is vital to decolonize our minds when studying Africa and its history because the Eurocentric perception of knowledge has been imbalanced because it is male dominated. One of the steps that we can take to dismantle European narratives is to approach knowledge through an Afrocentric lens by utilizing the feminization of knowledge, wisdom and understanding.