Orientalist knowledge practices transferred wholesale onto sub-Saharan African governance

Evidence

Africa, with the exception of North Africa, has been left out of the Orient. However, the same practices were used in sub-Saharan Africa by colonial authorities tasked with managing a subject population. The same so-called knowledge about the barbarism, the primitiveness, and the backwardness of Africa and Africans was used to justify their domination. The white man’s burden was to civilize the entire non-European world. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 247

Categorization

• XREF: Relevant to the MOC thread: shared practices across Black and Muslim racialization sites bear on whether one inversion template can transfer. — connects to: The same Orientalist knowledge practices governed sub-Saharan Africa outside Said’s Orient.