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Key book on the debates surrounding the knowledge economy and
decolonialization of African Studies, that brings the subject up to
date for the 21st century. Decolonization of knowledge has become a
major issue in African Studies in recent years, brought to the fore
by social movements such as #RhodesMustFall and #BlackLivesMatter.
This timely book explores the politics and disputed character of
knowledge production in colonial and postcolonial Uganda, where
efforts to generate forms of knowledge and solidarity that
transcend colonial epistemologies draw on long histories of
resistance and refusal. Bringing together scholars from Africa,
Europe and North America, the contributors in this volume analyse
how knowledge has been created, mobilized, and contested across a
wide range of Ugandan contexts. In so doing, they reveal how
Ugandans have built, disputed, and reimagined institutions of
authority and knowledge production in ways that disrupt the
colonial frames that continue to shape scholarly analyses and state
structures. From the politics of language and gender in Bakiga
naming practices to ways of knowing among the Acholi, the hampering
of critical scholarship by militarism and authoritarianism, and
debates over the names of streets, lakes, mountains, and other
public spaces, this book shows how scholars and a wide range of
Ugandan activists are reimagining the politics of knowledge in
Ugandan public life.
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