Decolonization Club
The monthly membership for people who started asking questions and couldn't stop.
You always knew something
was missing from the story.
Start Unlearning
You're not uninformed.
You're under-equipped.
You've felt it.
Someone says something about your culture, your country, your people.
You know they're wrong.
But you can't explain exactly why.
Because the version of history you were given didn't give you the tools.
It gave you the edited version.
The approved version.
The version that left out the parts that would make you ask too many questions.
Maybe you grew up between worlds.
Belonging fully to neither.
Translating yourself constantly.
You've started reading on your own, but it's scattered, and you don't know how it connects.
Or you make content about culture and identity.
And you feel the gap between what you intuitively know and what you can actually back up.
The difference between a feeling and an argument.
Or something just cracked open recently.
And now you can't unsee it.
You want to go deeper.
And you don't want to do it alone.
You are not behind.
You were just handed an incomplete map.
This is not a history class.
You will not
- Memorize dates and treaties
- Be handed someone else's interpretation and told to agree
- Sit through lectures designed to overwhelm you
- Leave with a certificate and the same way of seeing the world
You will
- Build the lens yourself
- Learn to read power wherever it shows up
- Know exactly why something feels wrong and be able to say why
- Stop softening what you know to be true
Stop being grateful for half the truth.
You don't wake up one day and decide to decolonize your mind.
You get tired.
Tired of playing by rules you never agreed to.
Tired of the story they tell about you, your people, your history.
Tired of knowing something is wrong but not having the language to say what.
You're done being fed half the story.
They have always called people like you dangerous.
Radical. Troublemaker. Too much.
Let them.
Structure for the unlearning.
Not a lecture or a passive course, but a monthly rhythm built around real texts, real discussion, and the kind of thinking that doesn't stop when the call ends.
The Book
The case study
The calls
Live calls where your opinions and questions belong. Bring them and let's discuss.
And after a few months of this?
The way you see the world shifts permanently.
And the longer you stay, the deeper it goes.
There is no bottom to this rabbit hole.
That's not a warning. That's the point.
August: The Oral Archive
This month we'll cover West African griots and the oral tradition, one of the most sophisticated knowledge-keeping systems in human history, and Decolonizing Prehistory, a multi-author volume that challenges who gets to have a history in the first place.
Case Study - Wed. August 5th
7pm GMT+1
Case study discussion: West African griots, oral historians, and the archive that colonialism tried to replace with writing. What oral traditions carry, how they survived, and what it means that colonial systems declared them invalid.
Book Discussion - Wed. August 19th
7pm GMT+1
Book discussion: Decolonizing Prehistory. Who decides what counts as history? Who gets to have a past? And what happens when the archive was never written down?
"Colonialism does not end when the colonizer leaves. It ends when its logic stops living inside us."
Questions
Do I need a background in history or political theory?
What if I miss a live call?
Do I need to read the whole book?
Is this only about Morocco and Africa?
The questions you've been carrying deserve a room.
You always knew something was missing from the story.
Now you go find the rest of it.
Hi, I'm Soumaya
I am not an academic.
I spent years in corporate going nowhere. Not failing, just surviving. Day in, day out, the same loop. Until I realized that the life I was living had been designed for me by someone else, and I had never once been asked if I wanted it.
So I left.
I started reading. Not assigned reading, but the books that sparked my curiosity. And something strange happened. I felt like I was discovering things I wasn't supposed to know. Like I had found a door that wasn't meant to be open and walked through it anyway.
I couldn't stop.
I am not an expert. I am not here to lecture you or hand you the definitive version of history. I am a few steps ahead on the same path you are on. Curious, still learning, still finding new doors.
What I am good at is finding the thread and following it. Making the complex make sense. Asking the question underneath the question.
The Decolonization Club is the room I wish had existed when I started walking through that door alone.
Now we walk through it together.
