White Settler-colonialism and Epistemic Violence in “Post-apartheid South Africa”: An Azanian Philosophical Analysis

Masilo Lepuru

doi:10.25159/2413-3086/6165

Authors

Masilo Lepuru University of South Africa https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9768-1022

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25159/2413-3086/6165

Keywords:

Conquest, White settler colonialism, Epistemicide, Modernity, Rationality, Afrikan Law, Afrikan Jurisprudence

Abstract

This article is a critical attempt to problematise the notions of European Modernity and Rationality. It is fundamentally an Afrikan philosophical critique of epistemic violence that comes with European Modernity and Rationality. It argues that European Modernity triumphed in “South Africa” following unjust conquest of the Indigenous people since 1652, which was characterised by loss of sovereignty and epistemicide. This resulted in the violent imposition of the law and jurisprudence of White settlers, which are antithetical to Afrikan law and jurisprudence. This epistemicidal nature of White settler colonialism manifests itself through the legal technicalisation of issues of historical injustice.

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Masilo Lepuru, University of South Africa

Azanian Philosophical Society

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