Decolonizing African Studies Pedagogies

Nathan Andrews is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at McMaster University, Canada.Nene Ernest Khalema is Professor and Dean/Head of School of Built Environment & Development Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

• Chapter 1. Re-Storying African (Studies) Pedagogies: Decolonizing Knowledge and Centering Black Agency?.- Chapter 2. Beyond Reaction: (Re)-Imagining African agency in the decolonization of knowledge.- Chapter 3. Africa, Knowledge Production and Scholarly Prestige.- Chapter 4. RepresentationMatters: Unpacking the Prevalence of Whiteness in the Teaching of African Studies Abroad.- Chapter 5. Constructing Knowledge about Africa in a South African University Classroom: Living Creatively with the Colonial Library.- Chapter 6. ‘Dem European teachings in my African school’: Unpacking coloniality and Eurocentric hegemony in African education through Burna Boy’s Monsters You Made.- Chapter 7. Is Sub-Saharan Africa a knowledge society or economy?.- Chapter 8. The Perceived Universality of the West and the Silencing of ‘Africa’ in Western Syllabi of International Relations.- Chapter 9. The Façade of ‘Transforming’ Post-Apartheid Universities in South Africa: Towards African-Centred Practices and Processes of Redress. Chapter 10. Agency, Africanity, and Some Propositions for Engaged Scholarship.