ADEKEYE ADEBAJO: Pan-African lessons for transforming SA curricula
13 December 2020 - 16:32
After two-and-a-half decades of a black-led government in SA, the country’s education system is still stalked by colonial epistemologies. Western thought remains ubiquitous, and African epistemologies are often marginalised.
A recently published book, From Ivory Towers to Ebony Towers: Transforming Humanities Curricula in South Africa, Africa and African-American Studies, sponsored by the University of Johannesburg’s Institute for Pan-African Thought and Conversation, explicitly seeks to draw on transformation lessons from postcolonial Africa and post-civil rights African-American Studies...
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