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Oscar co-founded Kicking AIDS Out, Education through Movement (EduMove) Limited (UK), Education through Sport (EduSport) Foundation (Zambia) and the Zambian Institute of Sport. He is also a visiting scholar, consultant and fellow at a number of global institutions including the African Union, University of Tsukuba (Japan), World Academy of Sport (Australia), University of Zambia, Pan African University (Nigeria) and Commonwealth Sport for Development and Peace (SDP).
His recent research and advocacy work focuses on two related areas. The first is the decolonisation of online and distance learning curricula and pedagogies. This includes investigating alternative pedagogies such as Ubuntu pedagogy as an alternative to hegemonic western pedagogies. To this end, he is a recipient of a teaching and research award from the CODE, investigating the decolonisation of the University of London Worldwide online and distance learning curricula and pedagogies. He also chairs the Decolonisation work group of the University of London Worldwide.
His second area of research and advocacy interest is Physically Active Education (PAE). PAE is an Sport for Development and Peace (SDP) innovative pedagogy that promotes cross-curricula teaching of school subjects through movement games and activities in order to simultaneously promote learning and health via increased physical activity in school children.
ABSTRACT:
“Applying a Decolonial critique to illuminate the exclusionary mechanisms inherent in African and global sports.”
The exclusion of minorities, women, and youth in African and global sports is not a surprise as it has been part of the colonial design. This speaks to how sport was historically used by colonial powers to reinforce racial hierarchies, gender norms, and age-based inequalities. It also reflects how power dynamics have shifted over time but still remain entrenched within sporting structures today. These structures continue to limit access, support, and recognition of people from marginalized backgrounds while sustaining privilege for middle class white men. The use of hegemonic western critique to understand and address the problem remains inadequate due to its inability to consider alternative perspectives. This paper offers a compelling argument for the need to adopt a decolonial understanding of modern sports as product of western modernity and coloniality. It highlights how modernity’s production of what is ‘real in modern sports’ and coloniality’s disavowal and concealment of the outside have created exclusionary mechanisms that can only be uncovered through an analysis rooted in decolonial critique. Furthermore, it emphasizes how this constructed reality operates to deny access to those who exist outside its boundaries, thus reinforcing its own power by affirming itself as holding the monopoly over ‘the sporting real’. This paper provides fresh insights into this issue that are valuable for furthering alternative understanding on this topic. This paper is informed by extensive secondary research and reflections on decolonization work taking place on the University of London’s International Sports management course.
