ABSTRACT
The ‘decolonial turn’ is constituted by complex decolonization/decoloniality debates informed by knowledges produced in the battlefields of human history. Such questions as to how different decolonization/decoloniality is from postcolonialism and postmodernism are directly confronted by taking seriously Pal Ahluwalia’s argument that some versions of postcolonialism and post-structuralism have Maghrebian roots (African roots). The chapter also pitches decolonization/decoloniality at the planetary level as it strives to provide a deeper and expansive genealogy as well as explain how the African and Latin American conceptions of decolonization/decoloniality overlap and influence each other, even though they draw from different geo-political constructions and divergent colonial experiences. Insights from decolonial feminism and African feminism are deployed to further explicate and expand the scope of decolonization/decoloniality. The ‘decolonial turn’ is presented as a compass, directing African people into a possible and better world characterized by pluriversality.
