Epistemic Freedom in Africa: Deprovincialization and Decolonization

• Other Authors: Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Sabelo J. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Taylor & Francis 2018
• Subjects: Educational strategies & policy; Development studies; African Futures; African University; Agenda 2063; Black Lives Matter; Colonialism; Decolonization; Deimperialization; Deprovincialization; Deracialization; Epistemic freedom; Nelson Mandela; Rhodes Must Fall; Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni; Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni; South Africa; The Epistemic Line; Why is My Curriculum White
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: description of the publication

Epistemic Freedom in Africa is about the struggle for African people to think, theorize, interpret the world and write from where they are located, unencumbered by Eurocentrism. The imperial denial of common humanity to some human beings meant that in turn their knowledges and experiences lost their...