Global Multiculturalism

Africa and the Recasting of the Philosophical and Epistemological Plateaus

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ID12814971
AuthorsAli A Abdi (0000-0003-3175-2566, Institute of Educational Policy, corresponding author)
Year2007
Volume1
Issue4
Pages251-264
Publication date2007-09-21
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueDiaspora Indigenous and Minority Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1559-5692 • E-ISSN: 1559-5706
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/15595690701563964
OpenAlexW1979687084
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited12

This article focuses on the problematic relation between African worldviews and their attendant educational and epistemological systems, on the one hand, and the dominant European discourses that have attempted to negate the validity of those, both in historical and contemporary Africa, on the other hand. The article first deals with its subtitle (i.e., it critically problematizes and interrogates the way African knowledge systems and cultures have been portrayed mainly in the writings that emanated from the European metropolis) and how this has facilitated not only false and untenable perceptions about the continent and its people but, as well, the continuing psychocultural colonization of Africans. In its domain of analyzing culture and its conceptualizations and practices, the article minimizes the fixed categories of the case and assumes a more active and multidirectional intersection of culture, society, and overall social being. Via its concluding remarks, the article proposes the possibility of more equitable spaces of critical global multiculturalism as the sine qua non for the achievement of a transformationalist and non-exclusionist trend of human emancipation and development

Epistemology · Multiculturalism · Sociology · African cultural and philosophical studies · Philosophy

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