It has to be within the socio-economic transformation that produces industrialisation and modernity in Africa. And there has to be a social forces/social forces who have interests in such a change. Cultural, educational and intellectual life breaks away from neocolonial studies in parallel/following a break away from economic hegemony and backwardness. A white curricula in Western universities is a useful tool to foster superiority and ideological legitimation. Hence the dominant paradigms, the belief in NGOisation, international aid, etc. Including some "black/brown" scholars, journalists, feminists, etc in the curricula is like including a black man as president of the US or a woman/gay as a president of an international institution: maintaining power relations by diversifying the agents of oppression. " How truly decolonise the study of Africa "
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51