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White Supremacism and Global Colonial Continuities
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Author(s): Alexander Madanha Rusero (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)and Moses Nyakatungure (Africa University, Zimbabwe)
Copyright: 2024
Pages: 15
Source title:
Evaluating Indigenous African Tradition for Cultural Reconstruction and Mind Decolonization
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Oluwole Olumide Durodolu (Department of Information Science, University of South Africa, South Africa), Collence T. Chisita (Department of Information Science, University of South Africa, South Africa), Ngoako Solomon Marutha (Department of Information Science, University of South Africa, South Africa)and Olumuyiwa Olusesan Familusi (University of Ibadan, Nigeria)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-8827-0.ch005
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Abstract
This chapter examines why decolonising knowledge production remains necessary to confront white supremacy in Africa. It is a truism that Africa's epistemic landscape remains entrapped within the undertones of white supremacist logic even as the continent now boasts of almost 70 years after the first African states' attainment of independence from colonial rule. Africans must begin to question the efficacy of the erstwhile colonisers' education system in pushing for Africa's development. Africa's epistemological foundations remain deliberately positioned to sustain white supremacy perennially. The epistemological landscape is one characterised by discrimination and marginalisation of African epistemology. This chapter is a deliberate modest attempt to expose the fallacy of white supremacy and burst the myths of the global colonial continuities attempting to sustain a Eurocentric normative epistemological landscape.
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