Decolonizing the Mind
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The Paradox of African Intellectuals in the West
I'm curious about what all of this means for you. You've spent your whole career basically teaching at Western universities. What does it mean to be an African intellectual working primarily in the West, but also engaged in all of these cultural and political debates about Africa? It has always again been a paradox because on one hand I think I've done whatever I could to promote scholarship and knowledge on Africa in the United States and in Europe. But of course, what I realized at one point, I wasn't doing as much for scholarship in Africa.
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