Decolonising African Higher Education

<p>Across the African continent college student activists have long fought to decolonise African institutions. Reflecting ongoing Western colonisation however Indigenous African languages thought and structures remain excluded from African universities. Such universities remain steeped in Eurocentric modes of knowing teaching researching and communicating. Students are rarely afforded the opportunity to learn about the wealth of knowledge and sustainable wisdom that was and is generated by their own home communities. Such localised Indigenous African perspectives are critical in a world committed to anti-Black racism capitalist materialism and global destruction.</p><p>This book thus clarifies decolonial efforts to transform higher education from its anti-Black foundation offering hope from universities across the continent. Writers are university administrators and faculty who directly challenge contemporary colonial education exploring tangible ways to decolonise structures curricula pedagogy research and community relationships. Ultimately this book moves beyond structural transformation to call for a global commitment to develop Indigenous African-led systems of higher education that foster multilingual communities local knowledges and localised approaches to global problems. In shifting from a Western-centric lens to multifaceted African-centrism the authors reclaim decoloniality from co-optation repositioning African intellectualism at the core of global higher education to sustain an Ubuntu-based humanity.</p>