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Knowledge Production and the Search for Epistemic Liberation in Africa

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Editors:
  1. Dennis Masaka

    1. Great Zimbabwe University, Masvingo, Zimbabwe

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  • Covers the problematic methodological issues in the construction of veritable knowledge in Africa
  • Brings together scholars from diverse backgrounds
  • Liberates from prevailing alien narratives, terms and frameworks

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This book shows the importance of knowledge production using requisite terms and frameworks to the broader scheme of epistemic liberation in Africa. The text considers what this veritable direction to knowledge production would mean to other areas of concern in African philosophy such as morality, education and the environment.  These contributions are important because the success of decolonising projects in African countries depend upon the methods that underpin envisioned liberative knowledge production in light of Africa’s historical and present condition. This volume appeals to students and researchers working in epistemology and African philosophy.

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction: The Question of Knowledge Production in Epistemic Liberation Debates in Africa

    • Dennis Masaka
    Pages 1-5

  3. ‘Epistemicide’ and Epistemic Emancipation in Africa: Problems and Promises

    • Kai Horsthemke
    Pages 7-21

  4. Knowledge Production and the Liberation Agenda in Africa

    • Dennis Masaka
    Pages 23-35

  5. Decolonisation as Self-Recovery: The Path to Intellectual Independence

    • Pascah Mungwini
    Pages 37-47

  6. Colonial Legacy and Knowledge Production in Africa: Re-echoing the Need for Epistemic Decolonisation

    • Kenneth Uyi Abudu
    Pages 49-67

  7. A Critical Exposition of ‘Alternative’ Site(s) of Knowledge Production in Africa: Decentering the African University

    • Joseph Pardon Hungwe
    Pages 69-84

  8. African Epistemic Liberation Through Knowledge Democratisation

    • Ephraim Taurai Gwaravanda
    Pages 85-97

  9. How African Logic Can Dissipate the Question of Originality and Knowledge Production in Africa

    • Emmanuel Ofuasia, Sheriff Olasunkanmi Ibiyemi
    Pages 99-110

  10. Africanising Institutional Culture: What Is Possible and Plausible

    • Thaddeus Metz
    Pages 111-134

  11. Africa’s Knowledge and the Quest for Epistemic Liberation in a COVID-19 Crisis

    • Munamato Chemhuru
    Pages 135-147

  12. Religiosity and African Epistemology

    • Jonathan Mzwazi, Sibiziwe Shumba
    Pages 149-165

  13. Ukama Ethic and Covid-19 Pandemic: Countervailing Social Distancing-Induced Exclusive Individualism in (Southern) African University

    • Amasa Phillip Ndofirepi, Joseph Pardon Hungwe
    Pages 167-178

  14. African Indigenous Knowledge and the Management of COVID-19 Pandemic

    • Sibiziwe Shumba, Estere Nyangari, Molyn Mpofu
    Pages 179-199

  15. African Knowledge Systems: Shona Paremiology in Promoting Morals, Peace and Human Security

    • Silindiwe Zvingowanisei, Francis Machingura
    Pages 201-214

  16. A Yòrùbá Worldview on the Compatibility of Human and Nonhuman Animal Relations (HAR) with Environmental Sustainability

    • Adewale O. Owoseni, Isaac Olufemi Olatoye
    Pages 215-230

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 231-233
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Great Zimbabwe University, Masvingo, Zimbabwe

    Dennis Masaka

About the editor

​Dennis Masaka obtained a doctorate in Philosophy from the University of South Africa in 2016. He is a senior lecturer in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Great Zimbabwe University in Zimbabwe. He is also a Research Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of the Free State, South Africa (2019-2023). His research interests are in knowledge production in Africa, philosophy of liberation, decolonisation and epistemic justice. He has published a number of papers in reputable journals such as Social Epistemology, South African Journal of Philosophy, Philosophical Papers, African Identities Journal, Journal of Black Studies, Education as Change, African Study Monographs, Journal of Negro Education, Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory, Alternation Journal, Journal on African Philosophy & CODESRIA Bulletin. 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Knowledge Production and the Search for Epistemic Liberation in Africa

  • Editors: Dennis Masaka

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-07965-8

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-07964-1Published: 10 September 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-07967-2Published: 11 September 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-07965-8Published: 09 September 2022

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 233

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Philosophy, general, Epistemology

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