Decolonising African University Knowledges, Volume 1: Voices on Diversity and Plurality

ISBN-13: 9781032132273 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 168 str.

Ndofirepi, Amasa P.

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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.  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.Decolonizing 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