“Athens of West Africa?” Slavery, epistemology, and the limits of decolonisation, By Ibrahim Abdullah

[Premium Times - Nigeria] - 15/02/2026

….the question is not whether Fourah Bay College deserves admiration. It is whether its intellectual history must be narrated through a metaphor that reinscribes colonial hierarchies of value. Why must African higher education be intelligible through Athens at all? Why is classical antiquity the (…)

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