Sandew Hira, pen-name of Dew Baboeram, is an independent scholar and activist. He studied economics at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. He was born in 1955 in the former Dutch colony of Suriname in Latin Abya Yala (Latin America) and moved with his family to Holland in 1970. He studied economics at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam.
His journey from Marxism to decolonial theory is recounted in an article in The Long View.
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In 1982 he published his first book that dealt with the history of the resistance against colonialism in Suriname from 1630-1940. Since then, he has published 25 books and numerous articles on colonial history and many other topics. His books are published by Amrit Publishers.
Hira is secretary of the Decolonial International Network Foundation (DIN). In this capacity he organizes a global network of decolonial activists, academics and institutions. More information about this work is to be found at www.din.today.
Hira is director of the International Institute for Scientific Research (IISR), based in The Hague, the Netherlands. IISR is an institute for decolonizing the mind and publishes its material on the Dutch language website www.iisr.nl.
Sandew Hira is married to Sitla Bonoo. They have a daughter, Pravini, a son, Amrit, and a granddaughter, Diya. Sandew Hira, pen-name of Dew Baboeram, is an independent scholar and activist. He studied economics at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. In 1982 he published his first book on the history of the struggle against colonialism in Suriname from 1630-1940. Since then he has published 25 books and numerous articles on history and colonialism.
Hira is director of the International Institute for Scientific Research in The Hague. Hira has contributed as guest lecturer at conferences and universities in Holland, Belgium, France, Portugal, Spain, England, Scotland, Finland, Sweden, USA, Curaçao, Suriname, Venezuela, Mauritius, Zambia and South Africa.
Email: info@sandewhira.com.