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nonsite, the art historian Blake Stimson throws some cold water on the currently fashionable injunctions to “decolonize your syllabus.” The problem, Stimson says, is that “decolonization” just doesn’t meaningfully apply to university curricula in former imperial centers. The idea that it does reflects a sort of “colonial narcissism.”
For Stimson, decolonizing your syllabus” in fact involves not decolonization but “neocolonialism,” a term he takes from Sartre via Kwame Nkrumah, the first prime minister of Ghana and the author of
Neo-Colonialism (1965). For Nkrumah, neocolonialism named the strategies by which the U.S. would succeed Europe as Africa’s colonial master. As Stimson paraphrases it, “The Americans’ goal was simple, Nkrumah argued: to finally knock Europe out of the colonial business by backing anticolonialism so that it might move in on the former colonies with its own very different form of neocolonial exploitation.”
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Since 2001, Dr Kizza Besigye, once a personal doctor, minister and senior military officer of President Yoweri Museveni has offered himself for election for the highest office in Uganda. In 2001 and 2006, he challenged Museveni’s election in the Supreme Court, opting out of that route in 2011 and 2016.
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Since 2001, Dr Kizza Besigye, once a personal doctor, minister and senior military officer of President Yoweri Museveni has offered himself for election for the highest office in Uganda. In 2001 and 2006, he challenged Museveni’s election in the Supreme Court, opting out of that route in 2011 and 2016. He elected not to offer himself for the presidency in the 2021 general election, proclaiming focus on what he called ‘Plan B’. In this interview,
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Columbia ends 14-year divestment in Sudan, cites investment as a force for stabilization Millie Felder / Senior Staff Photographer Experts consulted by the ACSRI believe the decision to end divestment is one step toward revitalizing a country in the midst of a transition from autocratic to democratic rule. By Dia Gill | February 4, 2021, 11:44 PM
Columbia has officially ended its 14-year policy of divestment and non-investment in companies operating in Sudan. The board of trustees voted to lift the policy on Jan. 20 after a recommendation issued by the University’s Advisory Committee on Socially Responsible Investing.
The University officially divested from Sudan in 2006, following the lead of the U.S. government’s decision to enforce economic sanctions in 1997 and to label the ongoing crisis in Sudan as a “genocide” in 2004. Both the University and U.S. government have previously cited extensive human rights violations as reasons they imposed economic sanctions o