Decolonizing History Quotes

“The year 1652 has been presented as the genesis of social history in South Africa, and of human advancement and civilization of Africans. Our history was relegated to the realm of the natural history framework of Iron Age and Stone Age hominis...this can be referred to as the '1652' paradigm”
― Patric Tariq Mellet, The Lie of 1652: A decolonised history of land

“History of the world written by colonizers is no different from map of the world made by flat earthers.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot