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Ousseina Alidou

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“Africans now see Africa in ways far from African binoculars”
Ousseina Alidou (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“the colonialists and the global hegemonies have created some sort of hypnosis (to use my own word!) or understanding that has affected even the ways Africans see themselves, the continent, and its studies. Drawing from this, the problem is not only about the domination of foreign methods of science and studies in Africa but also the root of the understanding of African studies that form the basis of the conceptualization of the studies themselves”
Ousseina Alidou (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The implication of this is that African ideologies would have to be beaten into foreign methodologies, thereby killing the uniqueness of African Studies, which should have been the paramount effort.”
Ousseina Alidou (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This is not to go into the etymological definitions but structural conception in this context. Science should not be seen from the angle of a conception of foreign endeavors.”
Ousseina Alidou (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This is because those ideologies must be made to conform to these methodologies. This is simple: foreign perspectives or sentiments in foreign studies of Africa will always remain constant, and the African materials and essentials must conform to their parameters.”
Ousseina Alidou (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is that the important subject of spiritualties, witchcraft, and rituals could inhale the breath of science in its entirety and independent of already concluded global biases. It is that Africans should build science out of African elements.”
Ousseina Alidou (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source