Given demands in South Africa ‘to decolonise’, I argue that to decolonise is more complex and challenging than currently constitutes the discourse of decolonisation, either in South Africa or the globe. Focusing on the Humanities, more specifically on literature – with reference to Ngũgĩ’s ‘Nairobi Literature Debate’ of the late 1960s – I frame discussion ‘in-between’ two significant gatherings, Bandung (1955) and the 10th BRICS Summit (2018), the former identified by Robert JC Young and Walter Mignolo as a marker in both postcolonial and decolonial ‘theory’; the latter, in a shift between an earlier ideology-speak and the trade-investment speak of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. What might be the consequence of such an in-between space for research, teaching and curriculum design?

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“去殖民化”：人文学科去哪里？

鉴于南非“去殖民化”的要求，我认为去殖民化比目前在南非或全球范围内构成的去殖民化话语更为复杂和具有挑战性。关注人文学科，更具体地说是文学——参考 Ngũgĩ 在 1960 年代后期的“内罗毕文学辩论”——我将讨论“介于”两个重要的会议，万隆（1955 年）和第十届金砖国家峰会（2018 年），前者被 Robert JC Young 和 Walter Mignolo 认定为后殖民和非殖民“理论”的标志；后者，在较早的意识形态言论和第四次工业革命的贸易投资言论之间发生转变。这种介于研究、教学和课程设计之间的空间可能会产生什么后果？