Episode 3

In this third episode, we hear Prof. Ndlovu Gatsheni highlight that all humans are born into legitimate knowledge systems and why it is necessary to reclaim this knowledge without disregarding other sources of knowledge, through epistemic decolonisation. He then states that to address some of the most pressing crises we currently face, such as climate change, we need to draw on various sources of knowledge or “ecologies of knowledge”.

Interviewer: Pinky Ndlovu
Hosts / Concept and Content Development:
Thando Tilmann⁠ and ⁠Tamar Sarkissian⁠
Music: Gomo RaMutare by Matemai Mbira Group
Production: Berlin School of Podcasting



Resources

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Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Sabelo J. Epistemic Freedom in Africa: Deprovincialization and Decolonization. London: Routledge, 2018. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429492204.

Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Sabelo J. “The Emergence and Trajectories of Struggles for an ‘African University’: The Case of Unfinished Business of African Epistemic Decolonisation.” Kronos Southern African Histories 43, no. 1 (2017): 51–77. https://doi.org/10.17159/2309-9585/2017/v43a4.


Resources

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Bhambra, Gurminder K., and John Holmwood. Colonialism and Modern Social Theory. Cambridge: Polity, 2021. https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Colonialism+and+Modern+Social+Theory-p-9781509541294.

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“Decolonising Modern Social Theory – Prof Gurminder K Bhambra.” Video, 9:39. Youtube. Posted by Connected Sociologies, 2021. https://youtu.be/9_R_NcBQeRU.

Falola, Toyin. Decolonizing African Knowledge: Autoethnography and African Epistemologies. African Identities: Past and Present. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. doi:10.1017/9781009049634.

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Mbebe, Achille. “Decolonizing Knowledge and the Question of the Archive”. Speech, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2015. https://wiser.wits.ac.za/system/files/Achille%20Mbembe%20-%20Decolonizing%20Knowledge%20and%20the%20Question%20of%20the%20Archive.pdf

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Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Sabelo J., Rüdiger Seesemann, and Christine Vogt-William. “African Studies in Distress: German Scholarship on Africa and the Neglected Challenge of Decoloniality.” Africa Spectrum 57, no. 1 (2022): 83–100. https://doi.org/10.1177/00020397221080179.

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