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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
8 quotes
“Elite capture is what happens when the advantaged few in a group steer the resources and political direction of organizations or movements or parts of our social structure, like the justice system, towards their narrower interests and aims.”
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò (born 1990) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The wars of independence that were fought throughout the African continent and the world beyond the African continent were linked.”
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“Democracy is not a gift that can be imported; it must be created and sustained by those who live under it.”
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Recorded in: Against Decolonisation: Taking African Agency Seriously (Bookcraft, 2022). Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò discussing democracy and African political agency.
“Colonialism did not merely dominate territories; it also transformed institutions and ways of thinking.”
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò (born 1990) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Against Decolonisation: Taking African Agency Seriously (Hurst Publishers, 2022). Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò discussing the legacy of colonialism in Africa.
“Freedom without responsibility is an illusion.”
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“Critical thinking is indispensable to the development of any democratic society.”
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Recorded in: How Colonialism Preempted Modernity in Africa (Indiana University Press, 2010). Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò discussing philosophy, democracy and education.
“Africa's future depends not on recovering a romanticized past but on creating institutions that secure justice and freedom.”
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò (born 1990) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Against Decolonisation: Taking African Agency Seriously (Hurst Publishers, 2022). Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò discussing African political development.
“Basically, what I mean by the constructive view of reparations is the idea that we do need the people who have gotten rich off the spoils of yesterday’s injustice, yesterday’s apartheid, yesterday’s laying of the groundwork for today’s capitalism, and there needs to be redistribution from the large corporations that have gotten all of that wealth to the rest of the people throughout the world. But the point of that redistribution isn’t just so we can shuffle around cells on an Excel spreadsheet. I think we should also be building a different kind of world that doesn’t structurally run on racism and other kinds of oppression and capitalism. And the construction of constructive view is the point of building that world. That world would have a much different energy system. It would produce things in a different way. It would manage resources in a different and more democratic way. And I think those are the kinds of changes we have to think about building, rather than only thinking about redistributing money or only thinking about tearing down the structures that we have now.”
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò (born 1990) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source