Epistemic Freedom in Africa - Deprovincialization and Decolonization

List of contents

1. Introduction: Seek Ye Epistemic Freedom First
2. Nomenclature of Decolonization
3. The Onto-Decolonial Turn
4. Reconstituting the Political
5. Reinventing Africa
6. Epistemic Legitimacy of Africa
7. Education/University in Africa
8. National Question
9. Rhodes Must Fall
10. Conclusion: African Futures

About the author

Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni is Executive Director of the Change Management Unit (CMU) in the Principal and Vice-Chancellor’s office at the University of South Africa (UNISA), and Professor of African Political Economy at the Thabo Mbeki African Leadership Institute (TMALI) at the same institution. Previously, he headed the Archie Mafeje Research Institute for Applied Social Policy (AMRI). He is the author of 14 books, including Coloniality of Power in Postcolonial Africa: Myths of Decolonization (2013), Empire, Global Coloniality and African Subjectivity (2013) and most recently The Decolonial Mandela: Peace, Justice and the Politics of Life (2016).

Summary

Epistemic Freedom in Africa is about the struggle for African people to think, theorise, interpret the world and write from where they are located, unencumbered by Eurocentrism. Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni argues the need to globalise knowledge from Africa, and to centre Africa as a legitimate epistemic site from which to interpret the world.

Product details

• Authors: Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Sabelo (University of Bayreuth Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Ndlovu-Gatsheni Sabelo
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.06.2018
• EAN: 9781138588578
• ISBN: 978-1-138-58857-8
• No. of pages: 266
• Series: Rethinking Development
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Sociology, Africa, Society & culture: general, EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries, Literature & literary studies, Communication Studies, Regional Studies, Philosophy & theory of education, Development Studies, Regional Geography, Development economics & emerging economies, Development and environmental geography