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New article: Dialogues of LiberationWhat becomes visible when Fanon, Cabral and Nkrumah are read together?The article ar...
01/08/2026

New article: Dialogues of Liberation

What becomes visible when Fanon, Cabral and Nkrumah are read together?

The article argues that colonialism worked as a total system. It shaped consciousness, erased culture, organised education and built economic dependency. Liberation therefore demands change across all of these conditions at once.

Published in African Identities.

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Colonialism was never only political.

It entered education, language, religion, culture, law and the economy. It shaped how people understood themselves and what they believed was possible.

This article brings Fanon, Cabral and Nkrumah into one conversation to show why partial decolonisation leaves colonial logic standing.

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Three thinkers. Three convergences.

Colonial education produces inferiority, cultural erasure and economic dependency.

Colonial violence acts across the body, knowledge and material life.

Liberation requires the transformation of consciousness, culture and economic structure together.

These are the central arguments developed in Dialogues of Liberation.

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From empire to algorithms.

The tools have changed, but the logic of extraction continues through data, platforms and systems that shape attention, behaviour and public knowledge.

Reading Fanon, Cabral and Nkrumah today means asking how colonial power survives through digital infrastructure, and what liberation requires in response.

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Three books. Three refusals.Fanon names the violence that built the world we inherited.Said exposes how the “Orient” was...
07/01/2026

Three books. Three refusals.

Fanon names the violence that built the world we inherited.
Said exposes how the “Orient” was invented, framed, consumed.
Freire reminds us that education is never neutral. It either domesticates or liberates.

Read together, they don’t offer comfort. They offer clarity.
About power. About knowledge. About who gets to speak, and who is taught to listen.

African futures don’t begin with innovation.
They begin with unlearning.

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06/01/2026

A little glimpse inside No One Leaves Clean.

Sharing this video because the book is its own world. Takoradi’s compounds, trotros, Market Circle, marriage beds, toilet queues, dust, hustle and the quiet dreams people hold onto even when the country forgets them. It’s a story about survival, masculinity, shame, dignity and the everyday weight of postcolonial life in Ghana. Thank you again to Set Margins’ and Freek Lomme for backing this work and helping it find its voice.

No One Leaves Clean is now in bookshops across Europe and Australia, with North America coming soon.

You can search it on Google, or buy directly here:
https://lnkd.in/gfXjD9dx

If the story resonates, please ask your school or university library to obtain a copy and help it reach a wider audience.

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