This foundation is based on "the socio-historical organization and classification of the world founded on a macro narrative and on a specific concept and principles of knowledge" which finds its roots in European modernity.[14] He articulates epistemic decolonization as an expansive movement that targets "geo-political locations of theology, secular philosophy and scientific reason" and simultaneously affirms "the modes and principles of knowledge that have been denied by the rhetoric of Christianization, civilisation, progress, development and market democracy."[6] Achille Mbembe argues that knowledge decolonization means contesting the hegemonic western epistemology that suppresses anything that is foreseen, conceived and formulated from outside of western epistemology.[15] Savo Heleta contends that decolonization of knowledge "implies the end of reliance on imposed knowledge, theories and interpretations, and theorizing based on one’s own past and present experiences and interpretation of the world."[8]