Decolonisation of Higher Education in Africa

Emnet Tadesse Woldegiorgis is an Associate Professor of Higher Education Studies at the Ali Mazrui Center for Higher Education, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He has published several academic works on theories of regionalisation, student mobility, cost-sharing, partnership models, and harmonisation of higher education systems in Africa. Irina Turner holds the position as Academic Councillor at the chair of African Language Studies I at Bayreuth University, Germany. Her research interests are interdisciplinary questions of cultural and media studies, political communication, and applied linguistics with a focus on multilingualism in South Africa. Abraham Brahima is currently a Research Associate at the African Centre for Advanced Studies (CAHE, Université d’Abomey-Calavi), Benin. His research and teaching interests include African philosophy, philosophy and sociology of science, theory of knowledge, language policies in Africa, and postcolonial translation.

Introduction; 1. The Emergence of Decolonisation Debates in African Higher Education: A Historical Perspective; 2. An Integrated Approach towards Decolonising Higher Education: A Perspective from Anthropology; 3. Rethinking Linguistics at Nelson Mandela University: Emerging Decolonial Insights; 4. ‘What is the Point of Studying Africa in Europe?’ A Micro-ethnographic Study of Decolonising African Studies through International Post-graduates in Germany; 5. The Relationality of Knowledge and Post-colonial Endeavours – Analyzing the Definition, Emergence and Trading of Knowledge(s) from a Network Theory Perspective; 6. Conceptual Decolonisation, Endogenous Knowledge and Translation; 7. Linguistic Coexistence and Controversy in Algerian Higher Education: From Colonialisation via the Arabisation Movement to the Adoption of Hybridity; 8. Class and Literature: Cross-cutting Theorisations and Practices of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o and Mao Zedong in Education; 9. "Borrowed" Languages in Africa: a Reflection on the Reader–Writer Imaginary; 10. Must Decolonisation Occur on an Island? The Role of Occupation in Developing Future Visions within the #RhodesMustFall Movement; 11. Decolonisation of Knowledge on Land Governance; Epilogue: A Long Way Towards a Decolonial Future in African Higher Education