Decolonisation of higher education in Africa : perspectives from hybrid knowledge production / edited by Emnet Tadesse Woldegiorgis, Irina Turner and Abraham Brahima.

"This book discusses the status and importance of decolonisation and "indigenous" knowledge in academic research, teaching and learning programmes and beyond. Taking practical lessons from a range of institutions in Africa, the book argues that that local and global science are cultur...

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Other Authors: Woldegiorgis, Emnet Tadesse (Editor), Turner, Irina (Editor), Brahima, Abraham (Editor)
Other title:Decolonization of higher education in Africa.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.
Series:Routledge contemporary Africa series.
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword. Planetary Decolonisation and Ecologies of Knowledges / Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni
  • Introduction / Emnet Tadesse Woldegiorgis, Abraham Brahima Irina Turner
  • The Emergence of Decolonisation Debates in African Higher Education: A Historical Perspective / Emnet Tadesse Woldegiorgis
  • An Integrated Approach towards Decolonising Higher Education: A Perspective from Anthropology / Vanessa Wijngaarden and Grace Ese-osa Idahosa
  • Rethinking Linguistics at Nelson Mandela University: Emerging Decolonial Insights / Jacqueline Lück
  • 'What is the Point of Studying Africa in Europe?' A Micro-ethnographic Study of Decolonising African Studies through International Post-graduates in Germany / Irina Turner
  • The Relationality of Knowledge and Post-colonial Endeavours
  • Analyzing the Definition, Emergence and Trading of Knowledge(s) from a Network Theory Perspective / Iris Clemens
  • Conceptual Decolonisation, Endogenous Knowledge and Translation / Abraham Brahima
  • Linguistic Coexistence and Controversy in Algerian Higher Education. From Colonialisation via the Arabisation Movement to the Adoption of Hybridity / Abbes Sebihi and Leonie Schoelen
  • Class and Literature: Cross-cutting Theorisations and Practices of Ng¿♭g♯♭ wa Thiong'o and Mao Zedong in Education / Mingqing Yuan
  • 'Borrowed' Languages in Africa: a Reflection on the Reader-Writer Imaginary / Tsevi Dodounou and Billian K. Otundo
  • Must Decolonisation Occur on an Island? The Role of Occupation in Developing Future Visions within the #Rhodes Must Fall Movement / Antje Daniel
  • Decolonisation of knowledge on Land Governance as per Higher Education
  • An ethnographical experience from West Africa / Lamine Doumbia
  • Epilogue: A long way towards a Decolonial Future in African Higher Education: An alternative Perspective from Hybridity / Irina Turner, Emnet Woldegiorgis, Abraham Brahima.