How to decolonise yourself (for dummies).

Nobody takes decolonization as seriously as the Pakistani academia. A literature department only has to hire a few Saidians and a couple colonial apologists to encourage a healthy' convoluted debate that never leads anywhere (like most debates to be honest).

In case you were looking to decolonise' yourself and appropriate your formerly-oppressed and now-mostly-privileged subaltern' identity, here's a handy dandy printable. Audit a postcolonial studies course Stick around a postcolonial classroom for a while (preferably in one of the few aesthetically appealing university campuses built by the White man himself for a double shot of irony) where the abrogation vs appropriation is debate taking place in the language of the colonizer.

And oh, nothing will make the process more effective than throwing about jargon that nobody has ever made an effort to translate into the local language. After all, we're not the French.

Cough up Jstor Write a long paperarticle/blog dissecting the subaltern issue from more angles than an octagon, and print it in a publication that the subaltern has no access to. Present it in a conference or one of those literary festivals where racial profiling will deprive the...