Decolonial Options in Higher Education

Sinfree Makoni is a Liberal Arts Professor in applied linguistics and African studies and Director of the African Studies Program at Pennsylvania State University, USA. He holds Extraordinary Professorship, Visiting Professor and Researcher positions at several South African institutions: North-West University, Nelson Mandela University, University of the Western Cape and University of Zululand.Chanel van der Merwe is a Lecturer in linguistics and applied linguistics at Nelson Mandela University, and a doctoral candidate at University of Cape Town, South Africa. Her research interests include the African university, language policy, multilingualism and feminist and southern epistemologies. She is an organizing team member of the Global Virtual Forum hosted by the African Studies Centre at Penn State University under the leadership of Professor Sinfree Makoni.

Profound and complex explorations of decoloniality in academia are needed and this timely volume offers them. Scholars from across the globe critique institutional racism, advocate for inclusive knowledge production, and emphasize the need for global solidarity and transformative education. This volume is essential reading for understanding and probing decolonial praxis.

• ContributorsAndré Keet: ForewordSinfree Makoni and Chanel van der Merwe: Introduction: Decolonial Options in Higher Education: Cracks and Fissures1. Horace G. Campbell: Reparations and the University in the 21st Century2. Jonathan Jansen: How Institutions Defang Radical Curriculum Ideas: The Fate of Decolonization in South African Universities3. Tshepo Madlingozi: Decoloniality as the Forging of Communities of Critical Consciousness or Beloved Communities4. Pedro Mzileni and Chanel van der Merwe: Interlude: A Conversation with Dr Pedro Mzileni about #RhodesMustFall and Decolonial Options in Higher Education5. Shirley Anne Tate: The Impossibility of Black–White Feminist Allyship: A Summary6. Raewyn Connell: The Good University7. Kenneth King: China and India’s Higher Education Cooperation with Africa: Cultural Diplomacy and Soft Power8. Diana Jeater: Imperial Standards in African Publishing9. Adam Habib: Structural Racism, Social Change and the Politics of Race in Universities in the United KingdomCécile B. Vigouroux: EpilogueIndex