Double Victimisation? Law, Decoloniality and Research Ethics in Post-Colonial Africa (original) (raw)

In effectively pacified places, however, European visitors anticipated little difficulty in satisfying their need for local assistants for various types, ranging from local informants and translators to servants, since they could rely on the authority of the colonial regime-threatened or actual-to secure the personnel they required (Kuklick, 2011: 3-5) Introduction: Research, Violence and Victimisation The history of research since the colonial era shows that researchers have so far been complicit in some violence of colonialism and of the contemporary global coloniality of power. Researches since the colonial era tend to caricature Africans as indistinct from animals and nature (Nhemachena, 2016), and thus legitimise violence that assumes that Africans are dispensable, negligible, sub-human and non-being. Such researches legitimised the colonial violence on the African subjectivities, human dignity and African institutions, which were pulled down and rendered inside out via colonia...