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Book SynopsisThe 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.
Table of ContentsAcronyms 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 Index
