Education, Colonial Sickness

Njoki Nathani Wane is Chair of the Department of Social Justice Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto, Canada. Wane’s research interests include African Indigenous knowledges, spirituality, anti-colonial, decolonial, and decolonization theory.

• 1. Introduction.- Part I Decolonizing History and Its impact on Education from K-12 and Beyond.- 2. Seafaring Africans and the Myth of Columbus: Reflecting on Fourteenth-Century Mali and the Prospect of Atlantic Voyages.- 3. Ubuntu: Social Justice Education, Governance, and Women Rights in Pre-colonial Africa.- 4. Women to Women Marriage, Social Justice and House Property System in the Precolonial Period: Implications for Educating the Youth.- 5. Back to the Roots: Reconnecting Africans in Diaspora Through Cultural Media, Education, and Personal Narratives.- 6. Ubuntu: An Educational Tool to Dismantle Patriarchy—Voices from the Women Community Elders.- Part II Identity and Ways of Knowing for the Educator and the Learner.- 7. Knowledge Production and Colonial Myths: Centring Indigenous Knowledges Through Decolonization.- 8. Seeking the African Indigenous Ways of Being in Academia: The Intersecting Journeys of Two Black Women from Different Historical Colonial Experiences—Part One.- 9. Seeking the African Indigenous Ways of Being in Academia: The Intersecting Journeys of Two Black Women from Different Historical Colonial Experiences—Part Two.- 10. Resistance, Reparation, and Education Awareness: Resurgence of African Identities.- 11. Cultural Genocide: The Miseducation of the African Child.- Part III Spirituality and Land-Based Education.- 12. Three Souls in Search for the Inner Peace and Spiritual Journey: Educational Moments.- 13. The Soul in Soul Music: Educational Tools for Decolonial Ruptures.- 14. Kumina: Kumina! Afro-Jamaican Religion, Education, and Practice: A Site Where Afrocentricity, 'Bodily Knowledge' and Spiritual Interconnection Are Activated, Negotiated, and Embodied.- 15. Land Teachings: Lessons from Keiyo Elders.- 16. Beyond Territory: Engendering Indigenous Philosophies of Land as Counter-hegemonic Resistance to Contemporary Framings of Land in Kenya.- 17. Conclusion.