Black texts on white paper: Learning to see resistant texts as an approach towards decolonising planning

I recently attended an international conference on planning in Africa. Here, it was suggested that the colonial era was over and that planners are already well-versed in decolonising theories and practices. Such suggestions came from Northern and Southern scholars alike. By means of this article, I hope to disrupt this privileged position by introducing the idea of resistant texts which are most often found in endogenous systems of knowledge production. I then explain how decoloniality – which calls for an epistemic de-linking from Western knowledges – might assists planners in seeing resistant texts before attempting to arrive at anti-colonial interventions