Colonisation, said Aimé Césaire, the anti-colonial Martiniquan poet and politician, equals “thingification”. To us this suggests that sexual thingification – including sexual entitlement, rape and femicide – equates sexual and gendered colonisation. What is needed to truly decolonise – that’s one question. In Decolonising the mind, the Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o argued for African … Continue reading →