Analyzing and challenging  power and the impacts of colonialism on different facets of society is a prominent goal for LTT. This section is comprised of resources which attempt to examine consequences of white supremacy such as colonization,  development, international volunteerism, and decolonization efforts.

White Supremacy Culture (Jones and Okun, 2001)

Colonization/Decolonized Thinking

The Power of Sankofa: Know History

The Challenge of Decolonization in Africa (Talton)

A Censorious Analysis of Ghana’s Decolonization Process (Michael)

The Land Grabbers of Nacala Corridor (UNAC, 2015)

Of Local Places and Local People: Understanding Migration in Peripheral Capital Outposts (Darkwah et al, 2016)

Problematizing Development

If you Shouldn’t Call it a Third World, What Would you Call it? (Silver, 2015)

Introduction to Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third world (Escobar, 1994)

The Case of Contamination (Appiah, 2006)

Tullum A Gendered African Wisdom with Possibilities for Development (Apusigah)

Fractal Thinking (Ferreira da Silva, 2016)

Poethics on the Open Boat (a Response to Fractal Thinking) (Bradley, 2016)

White Savior Complex

The White Savior Industrial Complex (Cole, 2012)

#InstagrammingAfrica: The Narcissism of Global Voluntourism (Kascak and Dasgupta, 2014)

To Hell With Good Intentions (Illich, 1968)