LEADER 04544oam 2200757I 450 001 9910831861603321 005 20181114083604.0 010 $a0-429-96020-4 010 $a0-429-49220-0 010 $a0-429-96019-0 035 $a(CKB)4100000004974578 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5437603 035 $a(OCoLC)1042329164 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/35215 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000004974578 100 $a20180727d2018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aEpistemic freedom in Africa $edeprovincialization and decolonization /$fby Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni 205 $aFirst edition. 210 $cTaylor & Francis$d2018 210 1$aBoca Raton, FL :$cRoutledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis,$d2018. 215 $a1 online resource (281 pages) 225 1 $aRethinking development 311 $a1-138-58857-1 311 $a1-138-58859-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: Seek ye epistemic freedom first -- Nomenclature of decolonization -- The onto-decolonial turn -- Reconstituting the political -- Reinventing Africa -- Epistemic legitimacy of Africa -- Education/university in Africa -- National question -- Rhodes must fall -- Conclusion: African futures. 330 3 $aEpistemic 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. 410 0$aRethinking development. 606 $aDecolonization$zAfrica 606 $aSocial epistemology$zAfrica 606 $aEducation$zAfrica 607 $aAfrica$xIntellectual life 607 $aAfrica$xColonial influence 610 $aAfrican Futures 610 $aAfrican University 610 $aAgenda 2063 610 $aBlack Lives Matter 610 $aColonialism 610 $aDecolonization 610 $aDeimperialization 610 $aDeprovincialization 610 $aDeracialization 610 $aEpistemic freedom 610 $aNelson Mandela 610 $aRhodes Must Fall 610 $aSabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni 610 $aSabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni 610 $aSouth Africa 610 $aThe Epistemic Line 610 $aWhy is My Curriculum White 615 0$aDecolonization 615 0$aSocial epistemology 615 0$aEducation 676 $a306.42096 700 $aNdlovu-Gatsheni$b Sabelo J. 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910831861603321 997 $aUNINA