‘I think (others cannot think) therefore I am (others are not)’
There is a discourse that has occupied Afrocentric scholars for a while now. It is a discourse of decoloniality. This discourse is very expensive in Namibia. You simply do not find it taking centre stage as is the case in other African countries and in South Africa in particular. In South Africa, the decolonial discourse has even led to the closure of universities and the altering of some aesthetics that have characterised zones and places of learning for close to 100 years. Unfortunately, this has not taken place in Namibia. At both Unam and Nust, there are hardly any features of decolonial discourse. There is a small dose of decolonial discourse in the departments of sociology and politics but without a national and collective appeal. Why the discourse is not taking shape in Namibia is an interesting puzzle. It is such a shame that the failure of academics has left students with no choice but to go it alone. In the discourse of devolvement the African imagination is left at the periphery. Professions such as architecture and town planning have no respect for African architecture. Solutions to social problems do not factor in African knowledge systems to social problems. What is left is what decolonial scholars have remixed the western philosophical construct from; ‘I think therefore I am’ to ‘I think (others cannot think) therefore I am (others are not)’.
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