Decoloniality and post-coloniality are the two main approaches that are currently used to analyze and challenge the legacies of colonialism and the structure of power and inequality prevailing in the African continent. While these approaches have the same goal - to eradicate current and historical injustice, brought about by colonial domination - their perspectives are different. Post-coloniality, on one hand, places emphasis on the intellectual, cultural and political changes that took place after independence, and decoloniality, on the other hand, seeks to destroy the coloniality of power, knowledge, and being that exist even after the independence of the flag. This paper, explores these two approaches from the perspective of ordinary people, living in the rural areas of the Coastal Region in Tanzania and who have acute experience colonial legacies. For instance, how do they go about dismantling the coloniality of power, knowledge and being? In other words, how do they manage to maintain their indigenous knowledge and identity? Based on tentative findings from the field, I argue that indigenous knowledge systems, the lived experience of colonized and oppressed people, provide a more radical and transformative approach to decolonization. This critique challenges both the intellectual elite's focus on post-colonial discourse and the state-centric narrative of national independence, arguing instead for a bottom-up, people-centered approach to decoloniality that transcends traditional Western-centric paradigms.