From Academic Coconuts to Knowledge Custodians: Redefining a New Epistemic Trajectory for an African University

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Redefining a New Epistemic Trajectory for an African University

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Seiten:: 97–119

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004548107_007

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The definition, production, dissemination, and legitimation of knowledge have been fiercely contested chain processes in the geopolitical terrain. The neo-Marxist epistemology refutes the apparent neutrality of knowledge and declares it as an ideological façade. Neo-Marxist sociologists acknowledge that the relationship of subordination, domination, and oppression that are found in the global economic and political matrix is obtrusive in the education system. When transposed to Africa, the author argues that academics in higher education have been marginalised in the knowledge industry and the meaning of the world has been imposed on them from the colonial epoch. He maintain that the manipulation of knowledge by the Global West has given birth to “academic coconuts” who suffer from a dearth of identity. They are Africans who are schooled to think and define the world in the way the academics in the West do. The author argues that this is manifested by hegemonic atrocities such as cultural imperialism, epistemicide, and linguicide. In this chapter, he interrogates and deplores these acts of symbolic violence. He also calls for neutral space in the academic arena to define and map a new epistemic trajectory and knowledge democracy in Africa. He assert that African academics can unyoke themselves and become principal custodians of their knowledges that have the potential to benefit and transform Africa and the globe alike.

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Unyoking African University Knowledge

A Pursuit of the Decolonial Agenda

Reihe: African Higher Education: Developments and Perspectives, Band: 14

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ISBN:: 9789004548107

Verleger:: Brill

Print-Publikationsdatum:: 29 Mar 2023

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Chapter 7 From Academic Coconuts to Knowledge Custodians

Redefining a New Epistemic Trajectory for an African University

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