On Thursday November 6th I will be giving a lecture at the Universiteit Leiden / Leiden University on the impact of African anti-colonial critique. I will question the degree to which Cartesian radical doubt is actually being upheld as a universal principle. As when Africans excercise this radical doubt and then go on to formulate a radical critique this is problematized.
I will explore this phenomenon by looking at the speech Congolese prime minister Patrice Lumumba gave on the day that the Congo became independent, and by looking at the contemporary and present-day responses to this speech.
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