Decoloniality | The Harriet Tubman Institute

Damola Adediji

rebsl — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 16:39:14 +0000

Damola holds a master’s degree in Intellectual Property and Competition Law from the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center in Germany, a specialized LL.M program jointly administered by the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition Law, George Washington University, Technical University of Munich, and the University of Augsburg.

Currently, Damola is pursuing his doctoral studies at the Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, under the supervision of Professors Jeremy de Beer and Chidi Oguamanam of the Centre for Law, Technology and Society, and the Open African Innovation Research Network. His doctoral project examines, through a TWAIL lens, the essential facility doctrine within the framework of antitrust competition law, with the goal of addressing global copyright issues related to the availability and access to both text-based and digital educational materials published in Indigenous African languages of Nigeria and South Africa.

Since September 2020, Damola has been a research assistant and student fellow at the Open African Innovation Research Network. From 2023 to March 2025, he served as Deputy Lead of the Open AIR network’s New and Emerging Researchers Group. Since December 2023, he has been a visiting scholar at Osgoode Hall Law School, �첥��Ƶ, where he is affiliated with IP Osgoode, an independent voice that explores legal governance issues at the intersection of intellectual property and technology.

Keywords: Linguistic rights, Third World Approaches to International Law, African Agency, Copyright Law, Cultural Expressions, coloniality, and decoloniality

Hadje Cresencio Sadje

rebsl — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 19:48:15 +0000

Hadje Cresencio Sadje is an experienced human rights activist who has worked with local, regional, national, and international organizations. Aside from being a human rights activist, he is also dedicated to decolonizing Christian philosophical and theological perspectives. He received his MA in Crosscultural Theology from Protestant Theological University in the Netherlands, as well as a Master of Arts in Ecumenical Studies (with a focus on Sociology of Religion) from the University of Bonn in Germany. He is currently pursuing his PhD at the University of Vienna in Austria. His research interests include decoloniality, Asian religions, global Pentecostalism, Muslim-Christian Studies, philosophical theologies, Asian and non-Western theologies, Christian Zionism, popular culture studies, and the intersection of religion, music, films, and video games. His publications include: Theology at the Border: Community Peacemaker Teams and the Refugee Crisis in Europe (2022) and Grassroots Asian Theologies: Doing Pentecostal Theology in the Philippine Context (2022).

Keywords: Decoloniality, World Religions, Belief Systems, Non-Western Theories, Political Theologies

Molade Osibodu

rebsl — Wed, 03 Aug 2022 16:54:55 +0000

Molade Osibodu is an assistant professor of education at �첥��Ƶ. Her research interests include understanding how to make mathematics humanizing for Sub-Saharan African youth; harnessing mathematics education to redress injustices related to race (particularly anti-Blackness), equity, and power; and exploring African immigrant and refugee math experiences; and African indigenous mathematics practices. Dr. Osibodu situates her work in the realm of critical mathematics education and is guided by decolonial theory, along with decolonizing, participatory, and critical methodologies in her research.

Keywords: Black youth, math education, social justice, decoloniality, participatory research

Dhouha Triki

alexall5 — Sun, 14 Nov 2021 03:57:27 +0000

Dhouha Triki is a fourth-year doctoral student interested in feminist agency and revolutionary struggles against state feminisms in the Arab region of North Africa. Her research aims to conceptualize the manner women's agency and struggle for liberation in this region transcends, extends, and complicates the political state post-colonial identity and the ghostly residue of colonialism and imperialism.