ABSTRACT This paper examines the fissures within recent decolonial debates, arguing for the privileging of alternative narratives from formerly colonized groups and a shift away from centring colonialism. It calls for the recognition of decolonial struggles whose histories run deep and the need to link the struggles with indigeneity, its poetics of relations, and connectedness. Therefore, decoloniality requires thinking and doing and paying attention to social and economic well-being of hitherto marginalized indigenous communities, while giving due recognition to their poetics of relationality, reciprocity, and conviviality. Drawing on the example of #RhodesMust Fall movement in South Africa, it raises difficult questions around ownership, agency, while pointing to cracks that this contemporary movement surfaced, in spite of its claim to decoloniality.

James Ogude

African Studies Review

African Studies Review (ASR) is the flagship scholarly journal of the African Studies Association (USA). The ASR publishes the highest quality African studies scholarship in all academic disciplines. The ASR’s rigorous interdisciplinary peer review seeks to contribute to the development of scholarly conversations of interest to the diverse audience of the Association’s membership and to the growth of African studies in North America, on the African continent, and in a global comparative context.

The African Studies Review (ASR) is the flagship scholarly journal of the African Studies Association (USA). The ASR publishes the highest quality scholarship in African studies across all academic disciplines. Its rigorous interdisciplinary peer review aims to foster scholarly conversations that engage the diverse audience of the Association’s membership and to advance the growth of African studies in North America, on the African continent, and in a global comparative context.

《非洲研究评论》（African Studies Review，ASR）是美国非洲研究协会的旗舰学术期刊。ASR发表各学科领域内最高质量的非洲研究学术成果。ASR的严格跨学科同行评审旨在促进学术对话，吸引协会多元化会员的关注，并推动北美、非洲大陆及全球比较背景下的非洲研究发展。

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