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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.

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Author:   Amasa P. Ndofirepi ,  Simon Vurayai ,  Gloria Erima
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   14
Weight:   0.465kg
ISBN:  

9789004548091

ISBN 10:   9004548092
Pages:   202
Publication Date:   13 April 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acronyms 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

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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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