Juliet Inyang: Colonial Shackles and Indigenous African Shelters in Management Research
The image illustrates the black African researcher, burdened by the legacy of colonialism (the chain ball), striving to seek protection under indigenous African methodologies (the umbrella). The rain symbolises external pressures from dominant, Western academic research methodology frameworks. My research will adopt a decolonising methodological approach centred on Ubuntu (an indigenous African relational philosophy) and indigenous methods specific to Africans (Dare circles) to explore how skilled Nigerian immigrant women navigate stigmatisation in cross-cultural work contexts. The findings are expected to yield valuable insights and push for a decolonising agenda in the field of gender, work and employment from an indigenous African perspective. While realistically, our colonial history cannot be ignored, a decolonising approach provides some shelter for African researchers like me, enabling us to have a voice amidst dominating Western methodologies.