Full Description
This book emerges at a time when critical race studies, postcolonial thought, and decolonial theory are under enormous pressure as part of a global conservative backlash. However, this is also an exciting moment, where new horizons of knowledge appear and new epistemic practices (e.g. symmetry, collaboration, undisciplining) gain traction. Through our critical engagements with structural, relational, and personal aspects of knowing and unknowing we work towards a greater multiplicity of knowledges and practices. Calling into question the asymmetrical global economy of knowledge and its uneven division of intellectual labour, our interdisciplinary volume explores what a decolonial horizon could entail for African Studies at the crossroads.
Contributors are Akosua Adomako Ampofo, Eric A. Anchimbe, Edwin Asa Adjei, Susan Arndt, Muyiwa Falaiye, Katharina Greven, Christine Hanke, Amanda Hlengwa, Catherine Kiprop, Elísio Macamo, Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Cassandra Mark-Thiesen, Lena Naumann, Thando Njovane, Samuel Ntewusu, Anthony Okeregbe, Zandisiwe Radebe, Elelwani Ramugondo, Eleanor Schaumann
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Thinking as Moving - Knowledge Practices and Decolonial Frames in African Studies
Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni and Katharina Schramm
PART 1: Un-doing the Canon
1 African Studies, or How to Make the Canon Apocryphal
Elísio Macamo
2 Dissecting and Transcending Enduring Fallacies
Elelwani Ramugondo
3 Knowledge Matters: Racism and Its Wording as a Tool for Reconfiguring African Studies
Susan Arndt
PART 2: Institutional Challenges and Transformations
4 The Ongoing Tune of the African Genius at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana
Edwin Asa Adjei, Samuel Ntewusu and Akosua Adomako Ampofo
5 Written in Water: the Legon School of History and the Publication of the Past
Cassandra Mark-Thiesen
6 Gender, Feminism and Politics of Knowledge Production: an Interrogation of Institutional Cultures of Africa's Institutions of Higher Learning
Catherine Kiprop
7 Transformation beyond the Surface: Race, Power and Young Academics after #RhodesMustFall
Thando Njovane and Amanda Hlengwa
8 On Access and Responsibility - Questioning Ulli Beier's Legacy through Collaborative Approaches
Katharina Greven and Lena Naumann
PART 3: Thinking as Moving: Future Pathways
9 Women Sages in Male Epistemic Spaces - an Analysis of Patriarchal Forces in Female Knowledge Production
Anthony Okeregbe and Muyiwa Falaiye
10 Knowledges in Conflict: Conceptualizations of Age in Colonial Letters
Eric A. Anchimbe
11 Haunted Numbers: the Lingering Legacies of Colonial Statistics and Measurement
Christine Hanke
12 Lamb Description - a Circulation of Knowledge Practices
Eleanor Schaumann
13 Combative Decoloniality and the BlackHouse Paradigm of Knowledge, Creation and Action
Zandi Radebe and Nelson Maldonado-Torres
Index
