MAP Diversity Reading Group

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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)