Navigating Plural Coloniality
Reflections on the Making of Black Afro-Francophone Higher Education in an Anglo-American Academic World
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12901778 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lyn J-V Kouadio (0009-0003-1690-9809, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2025-11-25 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Political Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1749-5679 • E-ISSN: 1749-5687 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/ips/olag003 |
| OpenAlex | W7135023371 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 50 |
This article examines the emergence of Black African Francophone higher education and what it means to navigate it in the broader context of the enduring legacies of French colonialism in an Anglo-American-dominated global academe. Even as fallist movements have revived and recentred key debates and conversations about epistemic decolonisation in the academe globally since #RhodesMustFall, there has been a tendency to construe the (neo)colonial imperial legacies that continue to shape global academe as Anglo-American. As such, the plurality of European colonialisms and the ensuing varied colonialities of power, knowledge, epistemic injustice, and death in the form of epistemicide and otherwise in formerly colonised regions remain under-examined. Meanwhile, these diverse systems have emerged from varied European colonial histories and present academics navigating those systems in decolonial ways with varied neocolonial intellectual and material challenges. Using Ousmane Sembène’s film adaptation of 'La Noire de. . .' (Black Girl) as a metaphor to examine the coloniality of death (neo)colonially in the academe in Black Francophone Africa and its diasporas, I propose the concept of agentic death to examine how death becomes a site of self-reclamation and emancipatory possibilities in the face of compounded (neo)colonialisms
Colonialism · Context (archaeology · Decolonization · French · Making-of · Plural · African cultural and philosophical studies · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
Colonial Situations
RhodesMustFall
Pedagogies of Resistance and Survivance
African intellectuals
From a French minority point of view
Decolonial perspectives on global higher education
Regional disparities in Web of Science and Scopus journal coverage
The Advocacy for Africanity as Justice Against Epistemicide
Beyond Eurocentrism and Anarchy
The Prospects of Ending Epistemicide in Africa
Trajectoires militantes et reconversions
Anti-apartheid transatlantic networks in the age of the civil rights struggle
Does the Development Discourse Learn from History
Come to Africa
Challenging epistemicide through transformation and Africanisation of the philosophy curriculum in Africa
France à fric
Global competition, coloniality, and the geopolitics of knowledge in higher education
Coloniality of Knowledge and the Challenge of Creating African Futures
Black and White in Black and White
Félix Houphouët et la Côte-d’Ivoire
La Noire de
L'enseignement supérieur colonial ». Un état des lieux
African scholars and African Studies
Sénégal 1968
De-centring the 'White Gaze' of Development
Decolonizing the African Studies Centre
Niam n'goura
The Ideology of 'Tribalism
Produire des savoirs ' africains
Is It Ethical to Study Africa? Preliminary Thoughts on Scholarship and Freedom
University systems in the Arab East
A 'Hegemonic Discipline' in an 'Anti-Hegemonic' Country
An Autoethnography of Hybrid IR Scholars
Of Love and Frustration as Post-Yugoslav Women Scholars
Coloniality and Modernity/Rationality
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |