Decolonisation of Materialities or Materialisation of (Re-)Colonisation?
Symbolisms, Languages, Ecocriticism and (Non)Representationalism in 21st Century Africa
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Mankon, Bamenda
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Contemporary scholarly discourses about decolonising materialities are taking two noticeable trajectories, the first trajectory privileges establishing “connections”, “relationships” and “associations” between human beings and nature. The second trajectory privileges restoration, restitution, reparations for colonial dispossessions, lootings and disinheritance. While the first trajectory presupposes that colonialism was merely about “separation”, “alienation”, and “disconnections” between human beings and nature, the second trajectory stresses the colonialists’ dispossession, disinheritance and privations of Africans.
