Decolonizing African Studies: Knowledge Production, Agency, and Voice Falola Toyin
Decolonizing African Studies: Knowledge Production, Agency, and Voice Falola Toyin Examines transformational moments and liberation movements in the decolonization of inherited Western academic…
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Decolonizing African Studies: Knowledge Production, Agency, and Voice Falola Toyin
Examines transformational moments and liberation movements in the decolonization of inherited Western academic traditions in Africa.This book explores how decolonization and decoloniality provide liberationist knowledge to question and replace the hegemony of Western knowledge systems imposed on Africa. As global power is concentrated in the global north where Eurocentrism and white supremacy validate the monopoly of knowledge and its centrality and universality, African perspectives continue to be marginalized or excluded in research, creating the problem of misrepresentation of the continent. It critically examines the silencing and exclusion of subalterns in global knowledge production and the far-reaching implications of this for pedagogy and policy.
It is to this challenge that this book has responded&emdash;the urgent need to eliminate the vestiges of colonialism in the