Journal article
Dialogues of liberation: a synthetic analysis of Fanon, Cabral, and Nkrumah through integrated postcolonial lenses
African identities, Vol.First online, pp.1-19
13/05/2026
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Abstract
This paper synthesises dialectical materialism, phenomenology, and critical pedagogy to analyse postcolonial texts by Frantz Fanon, Amílcar Cabral, and Kwame Nkrumah, revealing colonialism as an integrated system of psychological, cultural, and economic domination. Scholarly treatments fragment along disciplinary lines, obscuring what these thinkers grasped: that colonialism operates as a total system. Through close readings of three foundational postcolonial texts by Fanon, Cabral, and Nkrumah, this study applies a four-stage integrative method, close reading, multi-lens coding, cross-textual comparison, and integrative analysis, to identify three convergences. First, colonial education simultaneously produces internalised inferiority, cultural erasure, and class structures serving imperial interests. Second, colonial violence operates across bodily, epistemic, and economic registers as a single integrated apparatus. Third, genuine liberation requires simultaneous transformation of consciousness, culture, and economic structure, since partial interventions leave colonial logic intact. A contemporary case study of digital colonialism in Kenya illustrates how data extraction, algorithmic consciousness-shaping, and platform pedagogy reproduce colonial patterns in new technological forms. The study’s contribution is primarily methodological: the four-stage framework offers a transparent and replicable approach to multi-dimensional postcolonial analysis, demonstrating that systematically integrated readings reveal convergences, and productive tensions, that fragmented, single-lens approaches consistently miss.
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- Title
- Dialogues of liberation: a synthetic analysis of Fanon, Cabral, and Nkrumah through integrated postcolonial lenses
- Creators
- Yaw Ofosu-Asare - RMIT University
- Publication Details
- African identities, Vol.First online, pp.1-19
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- Identifiers
- 991013379628902368
- Copyright
- © 2026 The Author(s).
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Education
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article