Author: Ololade Faniyi

A presentation at the 2024 African Studies Conference in Chicago In September 2022, Google’s Equiano undersea cable was launched after its initial announcement in 2019. The project was framed as a technological breakthrough that would transform Africa’s digital connections. With a $1 billion investment, the cable stretches 15,000km from Sesimbra, Portugal to Cape Town, South…

I got the chance to read Jamaican feminist theorist, Sylvia Wynter’s “Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom” again for a class, and it is always an education to read how she unpacks the invention of the schema “man”, and the rational, economic processes involved in the invention of race and racialization. Wynter investigates the epistemological erasures…