“…Critical scholars and intellectuals in Africa have long faced persecution, malignment, exclusion, threats and sexual harassment (Tamale & Oloka‐Onyango, 1997), targeted assassination and, more recently, toxic ‘collaborations’ with Northern‐based scholars (Musila, 2019: 287). We begin this discussion of African geographies ‘without illusion’ of the ‘the black pits that hide [capitalist and colonial] rhetoric’ (Mignolo, 2011: 46; see also Fanon, 1961) and refuse colonial ‘moves to innocence’ (Tuck & Yang, 2012; see also Esson & Last, 2020). We are aware, simultaneously, that ‘[e]ven our best intentions can, unwittingly, be obedient to a logic of coloniality’ (italics original, Dominguez, 2021: 3; see also Adebisi, 2020).…”