Toyin Falola Leads Decolonization Masterclass for 1,000+ Students and Teachers

Professor Toyin Falola delivered a masterclass on decolonization at The Toyin Falola Masterclass on May 5, 2026, with over 1,000 students and teachers registered for the event. The masterclass will be shared freely across various platforms and added to archives on how to study Africa.

Falola emphasized that the challenges facing African archives include repression, driving his mission to rescue African knowledge from perspectives that stifle its existence. He explained that colonization involved not just resource extraction but also dispossession of African modes of cognition, creating hierarchies that placed external ways of thinking above African ones.

Through his extensive body of work including 'Decolonizing African Knowledge,' 'Yoruba Gurus,' and 'A Mouth Sweeter Than Salt,' Falola uses auto-ethnography to position himself as both subject and object in knowledge creation. His writing challenges the marginalization of African perspectives in global academia, arguing that Africans should be empowered to tell their own history through their own intellectual traditions.

How does this shift in knowledge production affect how African history and culture are taught in Nigerian schools, and what role should indigenous knowledge systems play in the curriculum?

SOURCE: https://www.premiumtimesng.com/opinion/877724-why-i-write-on-decolonisation-by-toyin-falola.html