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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
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
Katharina Schramm, Ph.D. 2004, holds the Chair for Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Bayreuth. She is facilitating the research group “Anthropology of Global Inequalities” which is invested in a critical public anthropology at the interface of Science & Technology Studies (STS) and political anthropology.
Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Ph.D. 2004, is Professor and Chair in Epistemologies of the Global South with Emphasis on Africa and Vice-Dean of Research in the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence at the University of Bayreuth in Germany. He has published extensively on decolonization and decoloniality and various aspects of African Studies. His latest publication is Beyond the Coloniality of Internationalism: Reworlding the World from the Global South (CODESRIA, 2024).
Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Ph.D. 2004, is Professor and Chair in Epistemologies of the Global South with Emphasis on Africa and Vice-Dean of Research in the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence at the University of Bayreuth in Germany. He has published extensively on decolonization and decoloniality and various aspects of African Studies. His latest publication is Beyond the Coloniality of Internationalism: Reworlding the World from the Global South (CODESRIA, 2024).
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
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
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
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
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
Scholars and students in African Studies; wider readership in the fields of history, anthropology, linguistics, philosophy, literary studies, gender studies, media studies, sociology of knowledge and Black Studies.