MAP Diversity Reading Group
Spring Semester 2026 | |
Date | Reading |
6th February (5-6pm) | Experiences of Colonization "On Violence”, in The Wretched of the Earth (Frantz Fanon) |
6th March (4-5pm) | Knowledge “Decolonizing the University: New Directions” (Achille Mbembe) “Epistemologies of Intellectual Liberation” in Decolonizing African Studies (Toyin Falola) |
20th March (5-6pm) | Gender/Feminism “Introduction” in Family Matters: Feminist Concepts in African Philosophy of Culture (Nkiru Uwechia Nzegwu) “Colonizing Bodies and Minds: Gender and Colonialism” in The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses (Oyěwùmí, Oyèrónké) |
10th April (5-6pm) | Democracy and Human Rights “Introduction” and “Democracy and Human Rights” in Cultural Universals and Particulars (Kwasi Wired) |
24th April (4-5pm) | Against Decolonization “Introduction” and “Decolonize This! Taking History and Agency Seriously” in Against Decolonization (Olúfẹmi Táíwò) |