Intellectual Decolonisation – Left Renewal Blog

The Decolonial Literature of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, by Abdirashid Diriye Kalmoy – 12 July 2025

From The Elephant Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, one of the most prominent writers and philosophers in Africa and globally, passed away on 28 May 2025. Ngũgĩ’s

Teaching Eastern Europe in the Age of Russia’s Imperial Invasions: A Conversation on Being Postcolonial When No One Takes Any Notice, by Oksana Dudko and Anna Hájková – 2 May 2025

This article first appeared in History Workshop Journal.

Taking Back Decolonisation. Talk by Kavish Chetty – 31 March 2025

Interviews Videos

Decoloniality Theory and Intellectual Decolonisation in Africa. Interview with Kavish Chetty – 4 February 2025

A critical review of Walter Mignolo’s ‘Politics of Decolonial Investigations’, by Kavish Chetty – 30 July 2023

Universities have no shortage of naked emperors enrobed in the finest of phantasmal silks and, here, Walter Mignolo endeavours to show off the latest in