Olivia Rutazibwa

Dr. Olivia U. Rutazibwa is a Belgo-Rwandan senior lecturer in European and International Development Studies at the University of Portsmouth in the UK. Her research centres on ways to decolonise thinking and practices of International Solidarity by recovering and reconnecting philosophies and enactments of dignity and self-determination in the postcolony: autonomous recovery in Somaliland, Agaciro in Rwanda and Black Power in the US. She has published work in several journals and is the co-editor of Routledge Handbook of Postcolonial Politics with Robbie Shilliam. She is associate editor of the International Feminist Journal of Politics. She is the former Africa desk editor, journalist and columnist at the Brussels based quarterly MO* Magazine for which she occasionally continues to write. In early 2018 her book ‘The End of the White World. A decolonial Manifesto’ comes out with the Dutch language publisher EPO