About our collective

The Decoloniality Dialogues Collective is an interdisciplinary and transnational group of educators, scholars, thinkers, and healers who connect over a shared commitment to decolonial praxis. This has involved bringing the wholeness of who we are as individuals into regular and ongoing conversations with each other, and with a cross section of decolonial elders and practitioners. What has been really powerful, transformative, and beautiful is that the conversations have challenged us to recognize and confront our own biases, linked as they are to our diverse identities and situatedness. We have been investing in substantive and sustained dialogue as we learn and unlearn how to engage with the differences that define us and that we bring to the collective.

We have come to appreciate that none of this relational and disruptive work comes easy! For this reason, we invite you to explore this space as one for learning and building other ways of being and engaging in work that divest from the harm, violence, and exclusions of colonial logics and institutions. We offer a tooklit of resources, activities, and practices that disrupt ideas about teaching and learning, administrative work, and research practices, to place more focus on dynamic and disparate forms of engagement, healing, undoing.

We are grateful for the support provided by the MSU Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion, the MSU African Studies Center, and the UW-Madison African Studies Program.