Engaging in African Epistemology as a Form of Epistemic Decolonization
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19565236 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ovett Nwosimiri (0000-0003-3596-0717, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 75-88 |
| Publication date | 2022-09-23 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Filosofia Theoretica Journal of African Philosophy Culture and Religions (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2276-8386 • E-ISSN: 2408-5987 |
| Publisher | African Journals Online (AJOL) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.4314/ft.v11i2.6 |
| OpenAlex | W4297493869 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
Epistemic decolonization has taken centre stage in academia and everyday life. Epistemic decolonization is a call to dismantle the Western way of thinking and its self-arrogated hegemonic authority. It is also a call to re-centre the knowledge enterprise in Africa from a western-centric orientation to an African-centric one to accommodate African epistemic formations. In this paper, I intend to contribute to the discussions of epistemic decolonization by showing that engaging in African epistemology is a form of epistemic decolonization. My argument is that we are recalibrating the knowledge enterprise when we go outside of the western episteme to engage with knowledge in other traditions, such as African epistemology
Decolonization · Episteme · Epistemology · Hegemony · Political science · Politics · Sociology · African cultural and philosophical studies · Law · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 1.67 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |