Decolonization, Development and Knowledge in Africa: Turning Over a New Leaf

ISBN-13: 9780367466930 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 188 str.

Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni

Opis

This provocative book is anchored on the insurgent and resurgent spirit of decolonization of the twenty-first century. The author calls upon Africa to turn over a new leaf in the domains of politics, economy and knowledge as it frees itself from imperial global designs and global coloniality.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Beyond the European Game  2. The Decolonial Turn  3. The Bandung Spirit  4. The Problem of Blackness  5. African Political Economy  6. African Renaissance  7. African Humanities  8. Conclusion: Turning Over a New Leaf

O autorze

Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni is Professor/Chair of Epistemologies of the Global South with Emphasis in Africa at the University of Bayreuth in Germany. He formerly worked as Research Professor and Director of Scholarship in the Department of Leadership and Transformation (DLT) in the Principal and Vice-Chancellor’s Office at the University of South Africa (UNISA) and was 2019 Visiting Professor at the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study (JIAS) at the University of Johannesburg. He is a leading decolonial theorist and historian with over 100 publications including eight sole-authored and nine edited books. His most recently published book is Epistemic Freedom in Africa: Deprovincialization and Decolonization (Routledge, 2018).