Decolonising African Higher Education by Christopher B. Knaus... - 9780367745189

Decolonising African Higher EducationPractitioner Perspectives from Across the Continent\nAuthor(s): Christopher B. Knaus, Takako Mino, Johannes Seroto\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367745189, 978-0367745189\nSynopsis\nAcross the African continent, college student activists have long fought to decolonise African institutions. Reflecting ongoing Western colonisation, however, Indigenous African languages, thought, and structures remain excluded from African universities. Such universities remain steeped in Eurocentric modes of knowing, teaching, researching, and communicating. Students are rarely afforded the opportunity to learn about the wealth of knowledge and sustainable wisdom that was and is generated by their own home communities. Such localised Indigenous African perspectives are critical in a world committed to anti-Black racism, capitalist materialism, and global destruction.\n\nThis book thus clarif.