Decolonisation and Legal Knowledge: Out Now!

 So, I spent most of the lockdown and post lockdown periods in a most "enjoyable" manner... writing a book! Looking back, I have no idea why I decided to write a book during a global plague. But I had started a lot of the research for it some years prior, so it seemed like a good idea for me to begin writing at that time. The book that came out of all this is titled, "Decolonisation and Legal Knowledge: Reflections on Power and Possibility." It is now available for pre-order from Bristol University Press. The e-book is being released at the same time as the hardcover. The paperback will be released sometime later. I would really appreciate it if you could recommend the hardcover to your university or other libraries that you use, and also pre-order a soft copy for personal use. [See info on recommendation in image below].

Book Launch "Decolonisation and Legal Knowledge": Opening remarks by Dr ...

On the 24th of March 2023, the official book launch was held for “Decolonisation and Legal Knowledge: Reflections on Power and Possibility.” If anyone is interested in getting the book, there is a 50% discount code: PODALK23. This discount is available till 30/04/2023. It can only be used on the BUP site: https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/decolonisation-and-legal-knowledge. This video reproduces my opening remarks which summarise my motivations for writing the book, outlines its contents, and ends with a word of caution.

FACE 2020: A look back at FACE 2018 and FACE 2019

FACE 2020 has been moved to 2021. The theme is 'Decolonisation, Intellectual Pan-Africanism and the Future of the Multiversity'. In the meantime, here is a look back to our previous conferences... with some dancing music!

FACE Pius Adesanmi Memorial Student Award for Outstanding Pan-Africanism

FACE 2020: A look back at FACE 2018 and FACE 2019

Forever Africa Conference and Events 2020 will hold on the 6th of June 2020. The theme is Decolonisation, Intellectual Pan-Africanism and the Future of the Multiversity. FACE has a Pan-African vision for the future. We understand that Pan-Africanist thought and action is not written in stone. It has to constantly adapt to the changing social climate and needs of the people in communities it purports to serve. Here is a look back to our previous conferences... with some dancing music!

Home is a Dangerous Spirit

Home is a Dangerous Spirit

The Movie ‘Detroit’: Tales of a Wretched Night

'I ask again, how do we depict the wretched? Can we by telling untold stories, ‘un-wretched’ those who have been made wretched? Can we by hearing the unheard, imagine new worlds?' Read more

FACE 2018: Creative Pan-Africanism for the 21st Century

This is what we got up to at FACE 2018. Information about FACE 2019 will be coming soon...

Watch this space.

FACE 2018: What issues does Pan-Africanism face today?

FACE 2018: What issues does Pan-Africanism face today?

Child, You Are Black

This is not a poem
I have no pretty words
To talk about death, despair and discrimination
This is for those Africans who think their pain is greater…

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‘Nigeria’ was never colonised

I often hear people say that Nigeria should be recolonised. I argue here that Nigeria was never colonised. Come with me on a short journey as I explore how use of language affects how we differentiate truth from the fiction of the past, how we perceive present reality and how we trace out a future from our yesterday’s tomorrows.

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Using African history as a tool for Change | Zeinab Badawi | TEDxEuston

In 1963, Professor Hugh Trevor Roper said:  'Perhaps, in the future, there will be some African history to teach. But at present there is none, or very little: there is only the history of the Europeans in Africa. The rest is largely darkness...indeed we may neglect our own history and amuse ourselves with the unrewarding gyrations of barbarous tribes in picturesque but irrelevant corners of the globe: tribes whose chief function in history, in my opinion, is to show to the present an image of the past from which, by history, it has escaped..'



In this video Zeinab Badawi counters the ideology of the above statement, while also examining why this ideology is destructive as part of a historical and persistent infantilisation of Africa and Africans. Listen.

Mamdani delivers rousing TB Davie Memorial Lecture

Hero Figures: Episode Two

Here I talk about my African hero figures, Queen Amina of Zaria, Efunsetan Aniwura and Moremi Ajansoro for Splash

Robotics: The Next Step foward for Nigeria | Michael Ipinyomi | TEDxFUTM...

British Library EThOS: The responsibility to protect and the responsibility to prevent : a legitimate and structural framework for an international non-military responsibility to prevent mass atrocity and internal conflict in West Africa

British Library EThOS: The responsibility to protect and the responsibility to prevent : a legitimate and structural framework for an international non-military responsibility to prevent mass atrocity and internal conflict in West Africa

Darius Simpson & Scout Bostley - "Lost Voices" (CUPSI 2015)

"You know nothing of silence until someone who cannot know your pain tells you how to fix it."

Pages Matam, Elizabeth Acevedo & G. Yamazawa - "Unforgettable"

Changing the World, One Word at a Time! | The Queen Latifah Show