Lessons on decoloniality from blak and black sahulian ecologies and the Aboriginal philosophy of everywhen

Kaiya Aboagye, L. Wilo Muwadda

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Abstract

This chapter is an entanglement of Indigenous philosophy, Black sociopolitical analysis and ancestral invocation between Black and Indigenous people of the Global South. It offers a cluster of thoughts in development and observations of existing ecological patterns and embodied Blak Indigenous knowledge's praxis as they are increasingly situated within the crises of our time. The chapter uses a critical Fanonion interpretive frame to approach critical questions about sovereign, decolonial and Indigenous futures. A future that is marked by an age whereby we humans are entering the new geological era of the Anthropocene epoch. This chapter contains philosophical offerings that weave together Bla(c)k concepts and theories on Indigenous cartographies, Indigenous philosophy and Indigenous temporalities of deep time drawn from Everywhen in Aboriginal Australia and Sankofa of the Akan in Ghana. We use these entanglements as tools of liberation and emergent strategy, to provoke deeper questions to explore how Black and Indigenous people continue to find openings that bring us closer to ecological and decolonial liberation. To examine this, we look to the connective threads between Blak and Black relational ontologies, which offer generous forms of Indigenous technology for the future. It is a sustainable way of being in an ever accelerated and anthropogenic world. It is a way of being with deep listening that can prepare us and become response-able in the predicaments of our future. It is to speak in prayer and ancestral invocation to honour the ways of the land and its refusal to be separated from the flesh.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationThe Routledge Handbook of Australian Indigenous Peoples and Futures
EditorsBronwyn Carlson, Madi Day, Sandy O'Sullivan, Tristan Kennedy
Place of PublicationU.K.
PublisherRoutledge
Pages346-363
Number of pages18
ISBN (Electronic)9781003271802
ISBN (Print)9781032222530
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 19 Sept 2023

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