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020			_a9781138588578
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024	7		_a10.4324/9780429492204 _2doi
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100	1		_aNdlovu-Gatsheni, Sabelo J. _4edt
245	1	0	_aEpistemic Freedom in Africa: Deprovincialization and Decolonization
260			_bTaylor & Francis _c2018
300			_a1 online resource
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
506	0		_aFree-to-read _fUnrestricted online access _2star
520			_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.
540			_aAll rights reserved _uhttp://oapen.org/content/about-rights
546			_aEnglish
650		7	_aDevelopment studies _2bicssc
650		7	_aEducational strategies & policy _2bicssc
653			_aAfrican Futures; African University; Agenda 2063; Black Lives Matter; Colonialism; Decolonization; Deimperialization; Deprovincialization; Deracialization; Epistemic freedom; Nelson Mandela; Rhodes Must Fall; Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni; Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni; South Africa; The Epistemic Line; Why is My Curriculum White
700	1		_aNdlovu-Gatsheni, Sabelo J. _4oth
793	0		_aOAPEN Library.
856	4	0	_uhttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/41334 _70 _zFree-to-read: OAPEN Library: description of the publication
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