• DOI:10.1177/0021934717753731
Corpus ID: 149081980

The Prospects of Ending Epistemicide in Africa: Some Thoughts

@article{Masaka2018ThePO,
  title={The Prospects of Ending Epistemicide in Africa: Some Thoughts},
  author={Dennis Masaka},
  journal={Journal of Black Studies},
  year={2018},
  volume={49},
  pages={284 - 301}
}

• Dennis Masaka
• Published 2018
• Political Science
• Journal of Black Studies

In this article, I seek to explore the prospects of ending epistemicide in Africa. The literature that challenges epistemicide in Africa largely addresses epistemicide’s impact on the indigenous people of Africa’s knowledge paradigm and call for its reversal. I argue that not much has been written in regard to the prospects of ending epistemicide in Africa. I regard this task as necessary given that the dominance of one epistemological paradigm in the educational curriculum continues to prevail… Expand

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