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SUMMARY:On the Idea of Freedom in Modern African Political Philosophy - Ol
 úfẹ́mi Táíwò (Cornell University)
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DESCRIPTION:When the Republic of Liberia\, at its inception\, adopted for 
 its motto\, “The Love of Freedom Brought Us Here”\, they were register
 ing their embrace of one of the core tenets of modernity: the idea that fr
 eedom was the primary state of humanity and that any form of social living
  that turned this free being into a bonded phenomenon\, forces it to obey 
 dictates and laws not of its own choosing\, to bow before rulers it had no
  hand in electing\, and to live at the behest of another must stand condem
 ned.  They were merely the latest\, back then\, instantiation of Africans 
 as singers of freedom’s song in the modern age.  Unfortunately\, neither
  theirs nor earlier iterations in the Haitian Revolution much less later c
 ontributions by other Africans in the continent are to be found routinely\
 , if at all\, in the annals of modern philosophy.  In this lecture\, I bri
 ng our awareness how African thinkers have domesticated the idea of freedo
 m as a legacy of modernity in their world.  This is one of the bodies of w
 ork that is obscured by the wall that I argue\, in Against Decolonisation\
 , decolonisers have erected in their mistaking\, wittingly or unwittingly\
 , modernity for colonialism and/or Westernisation.\n\nSpeakers:\nOlúfẹ
 ́mi Táíwò (Cornell University)
LOCATION:St Antony's College (Nissan Lecture theatre)\, 62 Woodstock Road 
 OX2 6JF
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URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/515d9b89-7ce5-4883-9a54-1ec47d923542/
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