To think about education from the postcolonial perspective of Achille Mbembe is to interrogate the structures through which knowledge is produced, as well as the very purposes of education in societies shaped by colonial history. Mbembe’s postcolonial approach converges, in certain respects, with the analyses developed within Subaltern Studies, particularly those of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Both thinkers advance a radical critique of the colonial legacy embedded in educational systems.
Hervé Toussaint Ondoua is an Associate Professor at the Higher Teacher Training College (E.N.S.) of Bertoua. He holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy of Language and specializes in issues related to postmodernism, postcolonialism, and poststructuralism. He has published several articles in these fields. After serving as a visiting researcher at the University of Mulhouse (France), Ondoua resumed his academic and professional activities at the Higher Teacher Training College of Bertoua, Cameroon.
