African Knowledge and Canonicity: Historical Inertia and Intellectual Liberation

Pascah Mungwini

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Historical Inertia and Intellectual Liberation

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Pages:: 10–23

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004548107_002

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This chapter, taking its point of departure from the unfinished project of decolonisation, focuses on African knowledge and the historical question of canonicity. Constraints on the entrenchment of African knowledge in the academy take many forms. In this chapter, two such constraints are examined, namely, the question of canonicity and the challenge of historical inertia in the sense of self-reinforcing practices of exclusion. The aim is not just to analyse and expose the implications of these two challenges but to propose ways of overcoming these subordinating practices which have kept African knowledges at bay in the academy in so many ways and for so long. Ultimately, the objective is to keep emancipative dialogue alive on a topic that can never be closed as long as injustice continues to prevail in the epistemic field. Equally crucial is the task to reflect on the responsibilities at the level of ideas and thinking which this situation imposes on the African scholar as an activist intellectual in the service of humanity.

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Unyoking African University Knowledge

A Pursuit of the Decolonial Agenda

Series: African Higher Education: Developments and Perspectives, Volume: 14

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Print Publication Date:: 29 Mar 2023

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Historical Inertia and Intellectual Liberation

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