
Decolonisation, Freedom, and African Intellectual History (Prof. Emma Hunter)
Interventions | The Intellectual History Podcast
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The Archival Silences and Colonial Futures That Never Realized
I wanted to ask if you could provide some examples of maybe some of these archival silences and colonial futures that never realized. Let me give as an example the Kilimanjaro Chagasitsonas Union in 1950s Moshe district who increasingly seem to be out of step with their times. They are talking about making the recently elected Paramount Chief into a hereditary office rather than somebody put there on the basis of election. So an eye to some of these more conservative voices ultimately is perhaps what I'm suggesting we need to listen for in order to better understand when and why the radical projects fail or don't achieve what they hoped to achieve.
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