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Decolonizing African Studies - Knowledge Production, Agency, and Voice
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Decolonizing African Studies - Knowledge Production, Agency, and Voice
Series: Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
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Examines transformational moments and liberation movements in the
decolonization of inherited Western academic traditions in Africa.
This book explores how decolonization and decoloniality provide
liberationist knowledge to question and replace the hegemony of
Western knowledge systems imposed on Africa. It critically examines
the silencing and exclusion of subalterns in global knowledge
production and the far-reaching implications of this for pedagogy
and policy. As global power is concentrated in the global north
where Eurocentrism and white supremacy validate the monopoly of
knowledge and its centrality and universality, African perspectives
continue to be marginalized or excluded in research, creating the
problem of misrepresentation of the continent. It is to this
challenge that this book has responded&emdash;the urgent need
to eliminate the vestiges of colonialism in the academy and
research methodologies. Coloniality is seen not only as a
historical phenomenon but also as an ethnocentric continuum,
dominating all aspects of present life, especially monopolizing
human epistemology, the threshold of human existence, and even
development activities. This book provides a balanced overview of
what a feasible decoloniality should be. It is all-inclusive,
aggregating differing perspectives, including decolonial feminist
and LGBTQ thought. It deploys a holistic approach that critiques
the limitations to decoloniality, the impediments that culminated
in the failure of the late 20th century struggle for decoloniality,
and the problems associated with current African resistance to
academic decoloniality. The book closes with a discussion of
African futurism. Seen as the advanced stage of decoloniality,
African futurism involves the application of "traditional"
(indigenous) instruments of articulation and cohesion such as
Afro-spirituality, myths, folklore, and indigenous
techno-scientific innovations, deployed in their capacity to drive,
harness, and actualize future possibilities.
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Imprint: |
University of Rochester Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora |
Release date: |
July 2023 |
First published: |
2023 |
Authors: |
Toyin Falola
(Series Editor)
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
690 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-64825-046-0 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
1-64825-046-7 |
Barcode: |
9781648250460 |
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