Reimagining the “Idea of the University” in Africa: Foregrounding the African Social and Epistemic Imaginary in the Transformative University

Thaver, Lionel

doi:10.1080/21528586.2019.1608464

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“…The article emerges as a result of tendencies from institutions of higher learning with constant utilisation of terms such as an idea of an “african university; africanisation and or decolonisation” (Mazrui, 2003 ; Ndlovu-Gatsheni, 2017 , pp. 56, 61, 67; Thaver, 2019 , p. 117) but with the very limited or small scale of an African indigenous knowledge base that identifies a framework of reference and liberation. These tendencies have led to the blindness of these spaces not to recognise or honour the knowledge canon of Credo Mutwa, an indigenous knowledge guild which innervates through various fields of studies.…”

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The indigenous knowledge system of Credo Mutwa: a pedagogical challenge in higher education in South Africa

Kgope

2023

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This article discusses the vast indigenous knowledge system of the late Sanusi Credo Vusamazulu Mutwa as a critical and relevant pedagogy that can enhance the transformation agenda of an African university. It argues for the inclusion of Mutwa’s indigenous knowledge to form part of knowledge that will interface with other knowledges and be included in institutions of higher learning. It argues that the constant drives for an African university with an Africanised and decolonised curriculum must be entrenched by recognising indigenous knowledge holders as public intellectuals who can through social cohesion engage with scholars and students in higher education. It is a fact that indigenous wisdom remains a challenge and a contested terrain in higher education as it is observed that not only have institutions of higher learning admitted to the calls to decolonise, Africanise and indigenise the curriculum but these calls have been met with failures to recognise the intellectual emancipating knowledge systems of their very own African intellectuals. It is these tendencies that have led to the blindness of these spaces not to adequately recognise the canonical knowledge of Credo Mutwa, an indigenous knowledge system which innervates through various fields of studies.

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