Unyoking African University Knowledge

A Pursuit of the Decolonial Agenda

Amasa P. Ndofirepi, Simon Vurayai, Gloria Erima (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

190 Seiten

2023
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-54808-4 (ISBN)

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Unyoking African University Knowledges unpacks and explores a new trajectory of how universities in Africa and the knowledges they deliver and produce can be emancipated from the vestiges of the relics of colonialism year after political independence.

The discourse of decolonisation, though littered with unresolved contestation in the university as an institution of higher learning, has often been blamed on the impact of neoliberal globalisation philosophy. The volume focuses on unfinished project of decolonisation, with an aim on African knowledge and the historical question of canonicity by keeping the emancipative dialogue alive. The authors place great scrutiny on the quality of curriculum offered in universities arguing that a sound relevant curriculum, original to the continent, can save Africa’s citizenry from challenges bedevilling socio-economic development.

This book proposes a disruption and potential end to western hegemonic epistemologies that manifest the neoliberal geopolitical terrain in the form of cultural imperialism, epistemicide, and linguicide through a decolonial approach to the curriculum in African universities. It interrogates and challenges the neo-colonial entanglement in regional higher education policy processes coupled with the excessive dependence of regional stakeholders on western external actors for higher education policy and envisages a decolonial alternative future for the regionalisation of higher education in Africa. To this end, the book brings in a more philosophical and practical hermeneutic of knowledge production and dissemination that unyokes post-independence African universities from the bondage of erstwhile colonisers.

Amasa P. Ndofirepi, PhD, University of the Witwatersrand, is Professor of Philosophy of Education at Sol Plaatje University, and co-editor of nine book volumes focusing on social justice, epistemologies, rurality, and inclusion in African universities. Simon Vurayai has a PhD in Sociology of Education. He is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Faculty of Education, University of Johannesburg in South Africa, with research interests in, gender studies, social justice, problems in education, sociology of knowledge, sociology of mass media, sociology of development and poverty studies. Gloria Erima obtained her PhD in Education Leadership and Management from the University of the Witwatersrand. She is a post-doctoral fellow at the Ali Mazrui Centre for African Higher Education, University of Johannesburg, South Africa, with research interests in social justice in education.

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Notes on Contributors

1 The African University in Pursuit of an Emancipatory Knowledge Trajectory: Deciphering the Dialogues

Amasa P. Ndofirepi

2 African Knowledge and Canonicity: Historical Inertia and Intellectual Liberation

Pascah Mungwini

3 Africanising the University Curriculum: Possibilities and Challenges

Jeriphanos Makaye

4 The African University and the Urgent Need for Decoupling from the Global North

Jacob Mapara

5 Cognitive Justice as Social Justice in Postcolonial Africa: The Idea of the University in the North-South Dialectic

Ephraim T. Gwaravanda and Amasa P. Ndofirepi

6 False Dichotomy in Epistemic Decolonisation of Philosophy

Ephraim T. Gwaravanda

7 From Academic Coconuts to Knowledge Custodians: Redefining a New Epistemic Trajectory for an African University

Simon Vurayai

8 Decolonising the African Union Regional Higher Education Policy: A Tentative Approach against Neocolonial Entanglement

Emnet Tadesse Woldegiorgis

9 Repurposing the University in Africa in the Context of the Tenacity of an Explicitly Racist Epistemology

Teboho J. Lebakeng

10 Social Justice Reconsidered: Making a Defence for a University of Critique Again

Yusef Waghid, Zayd Waghid and Faiq Waghid

11 Decolonising Knowledge in African Universities: Could It Be Too Late?

Gloria Erima

12 The Hermeneutics of a Liberated Knowledge Fund in an African University: Winding Up the Business

Amasa P. Ndofirepi

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Erscheinungsdatum	04.05.2023
Reihe/Serie	African Higher Education: Developments and Perspectives ; 14
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	351 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
ISBN-10	90-04-54808-4 / 9004548084
ISBN-13	978-90-04-54808-4 / 9789004548084
Zustand	Neuware