Titlebook: Knowledge Production and the Search for Epistemic Liberation in Africa; Dennis Masaka Book 2022 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Auth

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,‘Epistemicide’ and Epistemic Emancipation in Africa: Problems and Promises,stemic, cognitive marginalisation and negation, while epistemic emancipation serves as a countervailing measure to the killing of knowledge (systems). Taking into account the inhuman processes and extensive, brutal history of colonization of the African continent, it is rather unsurprising that the

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Knowledge Production and the Liberation Agenda in Africa,entic liberation that foregrounds the quest for self-assertion and attainment of liberation goals more generally. In the first section, I show that knowledge production in countries in Africa has not departed from problematic entanglement in the dominant epistemology for which it intends to overturn

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Decolonisation as Self-Recovery: The Path to Intellectual Independence, itself a critical corrective endeavour and an act of self-recovery. The correlative task is to reorient our philosophical thinking so as to reignite that spirit to build from our own resources and to our design. At the intellectual level, this means jettisoning the inordinate influence of imposed c

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,A Critical Exposition of ‘Alternative’ Site(s) of Knowledge Production in Africa: Decentering the Ae and methodology within a university. While there is abundant research that demands that universities in Africa account for local knowledge production, there is little focus one exploring alternative sites of knowledge production. The central question that concerns me in this chapter is; besides th

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How African Logic Can Dissipate the Question of Originality and Knowledge Production in Africa,e the task of African philosophers as nothing but intellectual exertions steeped in ‘copycatism’ and transliteration of Western episteme. This is coming in the aftermath of previous attempts by notable Western scholars such as Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Immanuel Kant, David Hume, Lucien Levy-Bru

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Africanising Institutional Culture: What Is Possible and Plausible,d, going forward, how should they be? In this chapter I provide an overview of the major different forms that Africanisation of institutional culture could take, and indicate the respects in which South African universities have or have not taken them on board over the past 20 years or so. More impo