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Africa's first democrats: Somalia's Aden A. Osman and Abdirazak H. Hussen

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Radcliffe, Sarah A 
Daley, Patricia 
Inwood, Joshua 
Sidaway, James 
Samatar, Abdi I 

Abstract

The Review Forum on Abdi Samatar's book Africa’s First Democrats arose from initial conversations at the Royal Geographical Society with IBG Annual conference in 2017. Under the umbrella theme of Decolonising Geographical Knowledges, Abdi Samatar and Joshua Inwood discussed the book and its wider relevance for the field of political geography. This review forum continues the conversations begun there, with an additional two commentators and Samatar’s response. As a conversation between black and white geographers, between political geographers of diverse theoretical and substantive interests, and as a conversation about the methods, frames and frameworks through which we come to understand power and geography, this Review Forum seeks to be a space for practices of decolonising geography. Decolonisation carries multiple meanings yet crucially points to efforts to both identify and challenge the dispositions of power whose origins and hegemony lie rooted in colonialism. Decolonisation becomes an issue of concern for geography as power relations in the colonial present permeate knowledge and ways of producing knowledge; “knowledge production and everyday relations are informed by European colonial modalities of power and propped up by imperial geopolitics and economic arrangements” (Collard et al., 2015: 323; Radcliffe, 2017). Going beyond postcolonial analysis, decolonisation encourages re-thinking the world from Africa, from Latin America, from Indigenous places, and from marginalized academia (Grosfoguel, 2012).

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4404 Development Studies, 44 Human Society

Journal Title

POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY

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Journal ISSN

0962-6298
1873-5096

Volume Title

67

Publisher

Elsevier BV
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