Decolonising African Higher Education: Practitioner Perspectives from Across the Continent

Synopsis

Across the African continent, college student activists have long fought to decolonise African institutions. Reflecting ongoing Western colonisation, however, Indigenous African languages, thought, and structures remain excluded from African universities. Such universities remain steeped in Eurocentric modes of knowing, teaching, researching, and communicating. Students are rarely afforded the opportunity to learn about the wealth of knowledge and sustainable wisdom that was and is generated by their own home communities. Such localised Indigenous African perspectives are critical in a world committed to anti-Black racism, capitalist materialism, and global destruction.　 This book thus clarifies decolonial efforts to transform higher education from its anti-Black foundation, offering hope from universities across the continent. Writers are university administrators and faculty who directly challenge contemporary colonial education, exploring tangible ways to decolonise structures, curricula, pedagogy, research, and community relationships. Ultimately, this book moves beyond structural transformation to call for a global commitment to develop Indigenous African-led systems of higher education that foster multilingual communities, local knowledges, and localised approaches to global problems. In shifting from a Western-centric lens to multifaceted African-centrism, the authors reclaim decoloniality from co-optation, repositioning African intellectualism at the core of global higher education to sustain an Ubuntu-based humanity.

Copyright:

2022

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

160 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781000577754

Related ISBNs:

9780367745189, 9781003158271, 9780367745196

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

08/31/22

Copyrighted By:

selection and editorial matter, Christopher B. Knaus, Takako Mino, and Johannes Seroto

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Education

Submitted By:

Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Christopher B. Knaus

Edited by:

Takako Mino

Edited by:

Johannes Seroto