Knowing - Unknowing

Katharina Schramm, Ph.D. 2004, holds the Chair for Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Bayreuth. She is facilitating the research group “Anthropology of Global Inequalities” which is invested in a critical public anthropology at the interface of Science & Technology Studies (STS) and political anthropology.Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Ph.D. 2004, is Professor and Chair in Epistemologies of the Global South with Emphasis on Africa and Vice-Dean of Research in the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence at the University of Bayreuth in Germany. He has published extensively on decolonization and decoloniality and various aspects of African Studies. His latest publication is Beyond the Coloniality of Internationalism: Reworlding the World from the Global South (CODESRIA, 2024).

• AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Thinking as Moving – Knowledge Practices and Decolonial Frames in African StudiesSabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni and Katharina SchrammPART 1: Un-doing the Canon1 African Studies, or How to Make the Canon ApocryphalElísio Macamo2 Dissecting and Transcending Enduring FallaciesElelwani Ramugondo3 Knowledge Matters: Racism and Its Wording as a Tool for Reconfiguring African StudiesSusan ArndtPART 2: Institutional Challenges and Transformations4 The Ongoing Tune of the African Genius at the Institute of African Studies, University of GhanaEdwin Asa Adjei, Samuel Ntewusu and Akosua Adomako Ampofo5 Written in Water: the Legon School of History and the Publication of the PastCassandra Mark-Thiesen6 Gender, Feminism and Politics of Knowledge Production: an Interrogation of Institutional Cultures of Africa’s Institutions of Higher LearningCatherine Kiprop7 Transformation beyond the Surface: Race, Power and Young Academics after #RhodesMustFallThando Njovane and Amanda Hlengwa8 On Access and Responsibility – Questioning Ulli Beier’s Legacy through Collaborative ApproachesKatharina Greven and Lena NaumannPART 3: Thinking as Moving: Future Pathways9 Women Sages in Male Epistemic Spaces – an Analysis of Patriarchal Forces in Female Knowledge ProductionAnthony Okeregbe and Muyiwa Falaiye10 Knowledges in Conflict: Conceptualizations of Age in Colonial LettersEric A. Anchimbe11 Haunted Numbers: the Lingering Legacies of Colonial Statistics and MeasurementChristine Hanke12 Lamb Description – a Circulation of Knowledge PracticesEleanor Schaumann13 Combative Decoloniality and the BlackHouse Paradigm of Knowledge, Creation and ActionZandi Radebe and Nelson Maldonado-TorresIndex