Azibuye emasisweni: Reclaiming our space and centring our knowledge

Volume editor

Zethu Cakata

Volume editor

Nompumelelo Z Radebe

Volume editor

Mogobe B Ramose

Synopsis

African knowledge is yet to fully contribute to spaces of learning because of the disciplinary boundaries founded on Western separatist logic. From an African epistemology, knowledge is interconnected because of the cosmological understanding that the universe is one entity. Bringing African knowledge into the academy requires a concerted effort to bring it of its own accord. There have been commendable efforts by scholars in South Africa to bring African knowledge to higher education in ways that do not alter or re-shape this knowledge to suit the dominant Euro-American script. This book aims to showcase such efforts.

This book makes interconnections of themes across disciplines. The content produced in this book will ensure that literature will anchor the noble efforts to build African universities that deliberately centre African ways of knowing. This book will be among the few publications that focus on Africanisation and decolonisation of knowledges as praxis. We anticipate that this book will be recommended in various disciplines of social sciences in South African universities.

Chapters

Chapter 1
We want to speak to our children: Introducing Azibuye

Zethu Cakata
Chapter 2
What good is the South African education system for indigenous people?

Lieketseng Ned
Chapter 3
Nsaka Sunsum [“touching the spirit”]: A pedagogy and process of black educational excellence

Wade Nobles, Zetha Nobles
Chapter 4
Reconstructing African concepts: Socially constructed meanings of impucuko

Zimingonaphakade Sigenu
Chapter 5
African anthropology in practice

Nompumelelo Z Radebe
Chapter 6
Colonial template in decolonial efforts: A case example of psychology

Zethu Cakata
Chapter 7
The African mind: An anti-Cartesian approach to teaching and learning

Morgan Ndlovu
Chapter 8
Envisioning the precarious legacy of black imagination: The art curriculum and underrepresentation of black South African artists

Bongani Mkhonza
Chapter 9
Azibuye emasisweni: A way of concluding

Nompumelelo Z Radebe

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2023

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