'Decolonisation has lost its way' | Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

[@crazymusicman13]

This is Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, who was born in Nigeria and teaches at Cornell, not to be confused with Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò (note the middle initial), who was born in America and teaches at Georgetown.

[@janebishop5885]

A very straight thinker. Hope he can get his views to be considered.

[@MrDunkycraig]

Very interesting gentleman, certainly a good view on how we can all get on with life. We should use best in class ideas no matter where we come from to progress human life.

[@natbirchall1580]

Great interview

[@memofromessex]

I have always found decolonisation patronising, even racist towards Africans. And historically and geographically blinkered, like Taiwo says that decolonisation has always been focussed on Africa and not the other longer lived colonies like in the Americas and Asia.

[@SBCBears]

What of the Saxon colonisaition of Britain? Where did England get its name?

[@krakhedd]

White guilt/shame

[@toi_techno]

Colonialism tore the heart out of societies around the world (Ireland where I live lost it's language and much of it's culture). It's the greatest disaster to befall human culture. This guy works and lives in America. He no longer speaks for Africa.

[@stephensipe5405]

MemoFromEssex, unlike in Africa, the Americas liberated from colonization as several large countries, then divided into people groups. Only the US chose a greater federalism rather than fracture into separate countries. We fought a Civil War to end the conflict between agricultural feudal/slavery and industrial economies.

[@pnwesterner6220]

Decolonization is widely discussed regarding North America - Canada and the USA

[@edc1569]

Considering India is currently supporting, Russias colonisation attempts I think we should all move on, if they’re over it, and they had it rough, then we should all be over it.

[@timurguselnikov1210]

Anybody know how to spell names of phylosofers that the professor mentions from 10:10 ?

[@michaelivey4904]

50-60 years after the fact and any ideology loses its way. Simply no logical thread to tie today’s situation to decolonization. A healthy development.

[@earlgreystoke3324]

"Decolonization" is merely socialist justice duckspeak for destroying Western values, social mores & rule of law. It is working precisely as its authors intended.

[@arnosonderegger6633]

Thank you for the very interesting interview. However, please delete the "O." inbetween first and last name as not to confuse this brilliant Nigerian scholar with the US-American writer of the same name whose take on this issue is very different.

[@chriscross7644]

Hi @Times Radio, you ought to change the title of this video, because, as @crazymusicman13 correctly wrote: "This is Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, who was born in Nigeria and teaches at Cornell, not to be confused with Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò (note the middle initial), who was born in America and teaches at Georgetown."

[@Commander_ZiN]

Decolonization sounds a bit like nationalism. In how parties that want too much power, spin the people into emotional thinking to get their political vote. It doesn't have to be based on rational thought.

[@ikshakubezbaroa3347]

Why do we see more of the interviewer than the guest ?

[@alanwhiplington5504]

Common sense

[@stephensipe5405]

Decolonization in Africa should mean respecting people groups within an imposed colonial boundaries. My model country is not in Europe. I would use the Australian Constitution as the framework. This Constitution defines states rights protecting people groups. To it, I would add individual Bill Of Rights from the US Constitution. This was tried unsuccessfully in the Congo during the Katanga insurgency. It is being better applied in modern South Africa. I had written such a suggestion to every South African newspaper and the government in 1976. I am glade to see it finally executed.

[@jajajaja2624]

India model is a good start

[@appletree6741]

Internet connection seems good in your bomb shelter but you need to stock up

[@PoshLifeforME]

If you want to de-colonize you better have a good thing going on.

[@barrydonoghue6767]

When are all the black colonist's of the UK leaving?

[@Pete9Tails]

Ooft mate you can't even figure out plurals.

[@jajajaja2624]

make them go

[@toi_techno]

He's well and truly take the soup. Perhaps if he was working out of an African university he might be taken seriously.

[@David-ni5hj]

Read Sowell, y'all. Socialism has hurt África (and LatAm) way more than colonization could ever do.

[@drunvert]

Colonization actually helped them in many ways. Independence however is a disaster in most cases

[@Ryanowning]

@@drunvert The reason colonization helped was simply due to the fact that the colonizers wanted to extract materials, but in order to do that efficiently infrastructure and limited education is required. Human history is filled with colonizers conquering new lands, investing in them, and enhancing the local cultures whom then grow to be tomorrow's colonizers. We need to stop averting our eyes from this fact; that conquest has made the conquered stronger for it. That all things are evolutionary in nature. This is not to say that conquest is desirable; we must learn of it to understand it's mechanisms so that we may artifice it so that we can bring about the good of conquest without the lost value that war inherently carries.

[@drunvert]

@@Ryanowning I totally agree

[@Ocinneade345]

Please don’t confuse sowell with any intelligent thinker on the left, like this man is

[@theloniousm4337]

Prospects for Africa are not bright. The playbook for development has been written in many different languages (except spanish and portuguese - big translation errors there still) but yet Africans can not figure it out. However they have figured out "blame the west" and "blame the colonizer" as those are much simpler concepts to grasp and relay.

[@julianshepherd2038]

I went to Bristol and saw the I K Brunel statue which isn't v big and not in a prominent place. I then saw the Colston one but I'd never heard of him. So I looked him up. He didn't seem important enough for site. Seemed to be a pro slavery thing.

[@epicurusone6897]

The presenter speaks too fast … slow down please

[@scottmarquardt3575]

Europe should help the counties that aren't Muslim in w. Africa as much as possible.

[@ant318]

I don’t know why we don’t. It makes sense for Africa to be successful. Good for trade with Europe and could help with migration, allowing Africans to have a stable wealthy life at home.

[@Tehui1974]

Only a colonised person could denounce decolonisation.

[@stephensipe5405]

The you agree America, Canada, and Australia can have a big input in this discussion.

[@scottkrater2131]

@@bishopofsahs Have you heard about how nobody was starving or being killed in the Belgian Congo, under Leopold? You think the Congo prospered or was it just Leopold and Belgium?

[@scottkrater2131]

@@bishopofsahs Really? You think the Belgians treating these people worse than animals for not helping the Belgians steal everything they wanted deserved it?

[@scottkrater2131]

@@bishopofsahs So you'd be cool with that happening to your family? Where are you from? Besides the Belgians had no rights to be there in the first place.

[@scottkrater2131]

@@bishopofsahs how did they deserve it?