How war, violence and extractivism – rather than ethics – defined the legacy of the empire in Africa.
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Sabelo J Ndlovu-Gatsheni is Professor and Chair of Epistemologies of the Global South with Emphasis on Africa at the University of Bayreuth in Germany... . He is a leading decolonial theorist with over a hundred publications in the fields of African history, African politics, African development and decolonial theory.
How war, violence and extractivism – rather than ethics – defined the legacy of the empire in Africa.