The capacity to decolonise : building futures literacy in Africa
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2021-04
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Long after colonial projects have stopped, the impacts of colonisation continue to linger. The paper’s objective is to situate “futures literacy” as relevant for decolonising futures in Africa and worldwide. This research advances decolonisation from the point of view of liberation - from imposed ways of sensing, seeing, understanding, doing, and using the future, which often is used to foreclose alternatives and bend reality through a single or very few dominant frames and narratives. A draft of the paper was presented to selected experts in futures thinking and related areas for their critique and review. This paper condenses the research, expert views, critiques and reviews.
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DECOLONIZATION, COLONIZATION, PARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH, INCLUSION, TRADITIONAL CULTURE, CULTURAL ASPECTS, HARMFUL TRADITIONAL PRACTICES, POWER RELATIONS, DEVELOPMENT THEORY, KNOWLEDGE GENERATION, SELF DETERMINATION, SOUTH OF SAHARA