Towards Constructive Politics

What oppression is, at the end of the day, is a world that has been built in a bad way

It just isn’t true that the only problem that confronts people who are trying to learn the truth about their social system is that they haven’t talked to enough people who have less money than them, or a more marginalized racial or gender identity. That’s among the problems, but the ...
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Towards Constructive Politics

The Mirage of Universalism Behind European Localism

An Excerpt from The Palgrave Handbook of African Philosophy

It should be clear by now that Eurocentrism is not limited to the “bad,” but it encompasses also the “good” and the “ugly.” That means that Eurocentric critiques of Eurocentrism are indeed part of the image of totality that Eurocentrism projects. The question is to delink from it and to ...
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The Mirage of Universalism Behind European Localism