Knowing - Unknowing

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).

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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



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