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020 _a9781138588578
020 _a9781138588592
024 7 _a10.4324/9780429492204
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035 _a(OCoLC)1192303325
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100 1 _aNdlovu-Gatsheni, Sabelo J.
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245 1 0 _aEpistemic Freedom in Africa: Deprovincialization and Decolonization
260 _bTaylor & Francis
_bRoutledge [Imprint]
_c2018
300 _a1 online resource
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
506 0 _aFree-to-read
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520 _aEpistemic 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 value, their epistemic virtue. Now, in the twenty-first century, descendants of enslaved, displaced, colonized, and racialized peoples have entered academies across the world, proclaiming loudly that they are human beings, their lives matter and they were born into valid and legitimate knowledge systems that are capable of helping humanity to transcend the current epistemic and systemic crises. Together, they are engaging in diverse struggles for cognitive justice, fighting against the epistemic line which haunts the twenty-first century. The renowned historian and decolonial theorist Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni offers a penetrating and well-argued case for centering Africa as a legitimate historical unit of analysis and epistemic site from which to interpret the world, whilst simultaneously making an equally strong argument for globalizing knowledge from Africa so as to attain ecologies of knowledges. This is a dual process of both deprovincializing Africa, and in turn provincializing Europe. The book highlights how the mental universe of Africa was invaded and colonized, the long-standing struggles for 'an African university', and the trajectories of contemporary decolonial movements such as Rhodes Must Fall and Fees Must Fall in South Africa. This landmark work underscores the fact that only once the problem of epistemic freedom has been addressed can Africa achieve political, cultural, economic and other freedoms. This groundbreaking new book is accessible to students and scholars across Education, History, Philosophy, Ethics, African Studies, Development Studies, Politics, International Relations, Sociology, Postcolonial Studies and the emerging field of Decolonial Studies.
540 _aOpen licence
_0https://oapen.org/article/rights
546 _aeng
650 0 _aDecolonization
_zAfrica.
650 0 _aEducation
_zAfrica.
650 0 _aSocial epistemology
_zAfrica.
650 6 _aDécolonisation
_zAfrique.
650 6 _aÉpistémologie sociale
_zAfrique.
650 7 _aColonial influence
_2fast
650 7 _aDecolonization
_2fast
650 7 _aDevelopment studies
_2thema
650 7 _aEducation
_2fast
650 7 _aEducation
_2thema
650 7 _aEducational strategies and policy
_2thema
650 7 _aIntellectual life
_2fast
650 7 _aInterdisciplinary studies
_2thema
650 7 _aPOLITICAL SCIENCE
_xPublic Policy
_xCultural Policy.
_2bisacsh
650 7 _aReference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects
_2thema
650 7 _aSocial epistemology
_2fast
650 7 _aSOCIAL SCIENCE
_xAnthropology
_xCultural.
_2bisacsh
650 7 _aSOCIAL SCIENCE
_xPopular Culture.
_2bisacsh
650 7 _aSociety and Social Sciences
_2thema
653 _aAfrican Futures
653 _aAfrican University
653 _aAgenda 2063
653 _aBlack Lives Matter
653 _aColonialism
653 _aDecolonization
653 _aDeimperialization
653 _aDeprovincialization
653 _aDeracialization
653 _aEpistemic freedom
653 _aNelson Mandela
653 _aRhodes Must Fall
653 _aSabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni
653 _aSabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni
653 _aSouth Africa
653 _aThe Epistemic Line
653 _aWhy is My Curriculum White
700 1 _aNdlovu-Gatsheni, Sabelo J.
_4edt
793 0 _aOAPEN Library.
856 4 0 _uhttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/41334
_zFree-to-read: OAPEN Library/DOAB: description of the publication
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