“…In other words, without structures, hierarchies, and order, Africans lose their spines-because a spine has to have order, structure, and hierarchy-and this loss of spines makes it impossible to fight for decolonization. To become spineless, in a poststructuralist and postmodernist sense, is to become susceptible to colonization again; yet some versions of decoloniality assume that decolonization is achieved through decentering African power, decentering African hierarchies, decentering African structures, and decentering African order in ways that ironically break African spines (Bryant, 2011;Gamlin, 2021;Lugones, 2008;Quijano, 2000;Salgado et al, 2021). Put in other words, for centuries, colonialists have stolen African structures, they have stolen African order and they have stolen African power by destroying African polities, family structures, and community structures (Posselt, 1935) because they knew that African hierarchies, order, power and structures could be used to resist and even depose colonialism.…”