IKINS AND CROSSROADS

Orunmilá and Exu in the ways of knowlwdge, education and decolonization

Abstract

This article problematizes education in dialogue with presences, knowledge and grammars subordinated by colonialism. I highlight how the attack on diversity runs directly through actions that operate in the armor and in the precariousness of explanatory principles that protect other sensations and experiences of the world. Thus, diversity is fundamental for the emergence of routes that affect beings in favor of life, dignity, good living and cognitive and social justice (SANTOS, 2008). Education is thought of here as a phenomenon crossed between experience, learning, knowledge and ethics whose motto is the explanatory principles of Yoruba culture, especially the orishas Exu and Orunmilá. Exu transferred to the Americas is the dynamic principle of each and every movement, creation, communication and language. Orunmilá is about knowledge and the multiple possibilities of interaction with it. Both are invoked here as philosophical and pedagogical availability to propose enunciative, political and epistemological turns that launch the criticism of education as a feeling, doing and thinking necessary for the registration of plural paths, responsible for difference and powerful for decolonization.