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Journal Article
Decolonisation in Africa: Lingering Concerns and Way Forward
2024
Overview
The paper examines the decolonisation project in Africa, including the lingering concerns about Africa's decolonisation, and proposes ways for Africa to break out of the lingering shackles and appearances of colonialism. Despite several years of decolonisation in Africa, the continent is still enmeshed in neocolonialism, imperialism, and other forms of subtle colonial control. While previous scholarly attempts have interrogated the subject matter, emphasis has often been placed on the political aspect of decolonisation. There appears to be a dearth of a most recent attempt to provide an eye opener to the other lingering concerns in Africa's decolonisation project beyond political decolonisation. More so, beyond being an eye-opener, there is a need to propose a practicable way out of these lingering concerns about Africa's decolonisation. This is the gap this paper fills. The paper adopts descriptive and explanatory research designs, relying on documentary secondary data sources. Hence, data were sourced from extant relevant literature on the subject matter. It also adopts the decolonisation theory as a theoretical framework. Data was analysed using qualitative content analysis. Among others, the paper unravelled the lingering concerns in Africa's decolonisation project, such as socio-cultural concerns, economic concerns, governance/political concerns, and teaching and learning (knowledge production) concerns. The paper recommends that for Africa to gain total liberation in every ramification, there is an urgent need to completely decolonise its educational systems – learning and teaching methods and curricula, and seek first the kingdom of knowledge, and all else will be added.
