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 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.
The Open Access versions Chapter 1 and Chapter 9, available at
https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429492204 have been made available
under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives
4.0 license.
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