Breaking away from colonial mindset highlighted

Concluding session of PHEC discuss theme "The Ethical and The Spiritual in Islam: Pasts, Presents, and Futures."

KARACHI:

It is imperative to break away from the mindset of the colonisers to carve a place in the world, said the keynote speaker at Habib University Postcolonial Higher Education Conference (PHEC).

The concluding session of PHEC had discussions under the theme "The Ethical and The Spiritual in Islam: Pasts, Presents, and Futures."

Dr Oludamini Ogunnaike, Associate Professor of African Religious Thought and Democracy at the University of Virginia in his thought-provoking speech, "Against the Dying of the Light: The Perils and Imperatives of Decoloniality in Islamic Temporalities," highlighted the need to break free from colonial mindsets, urging the audience to appreciate and inhabit their place in the world beyond imposed formations.

 

Published in The Express Tribune, December 27^th, 2023.