Decolonising African University Knowledges, Volume 1

Voices on Diversity and Plurality

Amasa P. Ndofirepi, Felix Maringe, Simon Vurayai, Gloria Erima, Amasa P. Ndofirepi, Felix Maringe, Simon Vurayai, Gloria Erima

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9781032132280
• eBook ISBN: 9781000758092
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

This timely work investigates the possibility of unyoking and decolonising African university knowledges from colonial relics. It claims that academics from socially, politically, and geographically underprivileged communities in the South need to have their voices heard outside of the global power structure.

The book argues that African universities need a relevant curriculum that is related to the cultural and environmental experiences of diverse African learners in order to empower themselves and transform the world. It is written by African scholars and is based on theoretical and practical debates on the epistemological complexities affecting and afflicting diversity in higher education in Africa. It examines who are the primary custodians of African university knowledges, as well as how this relates to forms of exclusion affecting women, the differently abled, the rural poor, and ethnic minorities, as well as the significance of the Fourth Industrial Revolution in the future of African universities. The book takes an epistemological approach to university teaching and learning, addressing issues such as decolonization and identity, social closure and diversity disputes, and the obstacles that come with the neoliberal paradigm.

The book will be necessary reading for academics, scholars, and postgraduate students in the fields of Sociology of Education, decolonising education, Inclusive Education, and Philosophy of Education, as it resonates with existing discourses.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Abbreviations
• Contributors
• 1 Gender, Disability and Rurality Decoding the Themes in the African University Milieu
• 2 Reflection on Disability (and) Educational Justice in Africa’s Structurally Unjust Society During the COVID-19 Pandemic Lockdown Africa’s Structurally Unjust Society During Lockdown
• 3 Improving Processes, Practices and Structures in South African Higher Education Voices of Students with Disabilities
• 4 Social Justice in Higher Education A Quest for Equity, Inclusion and Epistemic Access
• 5 Decolonising African University Teaching by Unyoking Deaf Culture from Disability
• 6 Theorising Feminist Voices in the Curriculum in an African University
• 7 Knowledge Democracy and Feminist Epistemic Struggle in African Universities
• 8 Globalisation and Commodification of Knowledge Liberating Women’s Academic Achievements from Conventional Global Power Hierarchies
• 9 The Place of Universities in Africa in the Global Information Society A Critique
• 10 Gender, Disability, Rurality, and Social Injustice in the African University Opportunities Going Forward
• Afterword
• Index