Decolonisation, Post-Humanism and Justice with-in Higher Education

Yusef Waghid

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Chapter 5 Decolonisation, Post-Humanism and Justice with-in Higher Education

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Pages:: 91–105

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004677432_005

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Higher education in Africa seemed to have been biased towards Eurocentricism that often misrecognises legitimate knowledge claims in and about transformative change in the sector. Literature on higher education studies is replete with claims about how a primary focus on only Eurocentric knowledge (re)constructions seems to undermine forms of authentic knowledges. Like many universities on the African continent, allegiance to the hegemonic knowledge interests of a Global North seems to undermine attempts on the part of higher education institutions to cultivate more democratically inclusive knowledge spaces. There seems to be some misunderstanding of the (ir)relevance of knowledge produced in the north for communities in the south as if such forms of knowledge production invariably have a universalist potential. Consequently, legitimate transformative initiatives in the forms of decolonisation and decoloniality commensurate with post-humanist inquiry seem to remain disentangled from genuine epistemological actions to produce a New African University. The argument of this contribution is constituted by the pursuit of an autonomous African university enframed by virtues of objective freedom, just action and moral responsibility. In this way, the possibility that a New African University will manifest along a post-humanist discourse of higher education seems highly likely. Therefore, it is argued that a notion of entanglement that conceptually and pragmatically connects the imaginary of an African university with-in its higher education priorities seems to be a defensible act of higher education transformation. Hence, bringing decolonisation, decoloniality and post-humanism into conversation with justice in and about higher education seems to be apt and constructive for the enhancement of legitimate knowledge claims.

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Creating the New African University

Series: African Higher Education: Developments and Perspectives, Volume: 16

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004677432

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 18 May 2023

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