It’s Past Time to Leave Decolonizing Discourse Behind: Why and How?

HUM:Global Talks! public lecture by Professor Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò.

In conjunction with a two-day workshop for a forthcoming publication with Cambridge University Press on Decolonisation organised by Professor Stuart Ward (Saxo Institute/UCPH), Professor Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò will deliver a lecture based on the research he has been undertaking in this field.

Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò is a philosopher and professor of African political thought at the Africana Studies Research Center at Cornell University. His first book, How Colonialism Preempted Modernity in Africa (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010) was a joint winner of the Frantz Fanon Book Award of the Caribbean Philosophical Association in 2015. He most recently published Against Decolonisation: Taking African Agency Seriously (Hurst 2022) to critical acclaim, described variously as an ‘electrifying book’ (Wall Street Journal), a ‘bristling new takedown.’ (Prospect) and an ‘urgent and eloquent voice’ highlighting the ‘need to think harder’ about the complex interplay between colonialism and global modernity.

About the HUM:Global Talks! series

This talk is part of the HUM: Global Talks! series of Spring 2026. The series consists of talks, seminars, and events at the Humanities at the University of Copenhagen.