Overview

This book shows the importance of knowledge production using requisite terms and frameworks to the broader scheme of epistemic liberation in Africa. The text considers what this veritable direction to knowledge production would mean to other areas of concern in African philosophy such as morality, education and the environment.  These contributions are important because the success of decolonising projects in African countries depend upon the methods that underpin envisioned liberative knowledge production in light of Africa’s historical and present condition. This volume appeals to students and researchers working in epistemology and African philosophy.

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Author:   Dennis Masaka
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2022
Weight:   0.379kg
ISBN:  

9783031079672

ISBN 10:   3031079671
Pages:   233
Publication Date:   11 September 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Chapter. 1. Introduction.- Chapter. 2. Epistemicide’ and Epistemic Emancipation in Africa – Problems and Promises.- Chapter. 3. Knowledge production and the Liberation agenda in Africa.- Chapter. 4. Decolonisation as self-recovery: the path to intellectual independence.- Chapter. 5. Colonial legacy and knowledge production in Africa: Re-echoing the need for epistemic decolonisation.- Chapter. 6. A critical exposition of ‘alternative’ site(s) of knowledge production in Africa: Decentering the African university.- Chapter. 7. African Epistemic liberation through knowledge democratisation.- Chapter. 8. How African Logic can dissipate the Question of Originality and Knowledge Production in Africa.- Chapter. 9. Africanising Institutional Culture: What Is Possible and Plausible.- Chapter. 10. 'Africa’s Knowledge and the Quest for Epistemic Liberation in a COVID-19 Crisis.- Chapter. 11. Religiosity and African Epistemology.- Chapter. 12. Ukama ethic and Covid-19 pandemic: Countervailing social distancing-induced exclusive individualism in (southern) African university.- Chapter. 13. African Indigenous Knowledge and the management of COVID-19 pandemic.- Chapter. 14. African Knowledge Systems: Shona Paremiology in Promoting Morals, Peace and Human Security.- Chapter. 15. A Yòrùbá Worldview on the Compatibility of Human and Nonhuman Animal Relations (HAR) with Environmental Sustainability.

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​Dennis Masaka obtained a doctorate in Philosophy from the University of South Africa in 2016. He is a senior lecturer in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Great Zimbabwe University in Zimbabwe. He is also a Research Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of the Free State, South Africa (2019-2023). His research interests are in knowledge production in Africa, philosophy of liberation, decolonisation and epistemic justice. He has published a number of papers in reputable journals such as Social Epistemology, South African Journal of Philosophy, Philosophical Papers, African Identities Journal, Journal of Black Studies, Education as Change, African Study Monographs, Journal of Negro Education, Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory, Alternation Journal, Journal on African Philosophy & CODESRIA Bulletin. 

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