This handbook brings together the views of scholars from diverse disciplinary, ideological, methodological, and geographical locations to reflect on decolonizing knowledge. It takes stock of the reflections on decolonizing knowledge thus far, provides fresh thoughts on theme, and maps the way forward on decolonizing knowledge. Whereas the popular discourse approaches decolonizing knowledge as a recent scholarly undertaking, the handbook goes back into the past to identify some seminal thinkers, critiques trends within the field, as well as identify less popular personalities and positionalities in the field. In response to those who have challenged the call for decolonization as engaging in abstract thinking, the handbook proceeds to provide concrete case studies of the implementation of decolonization.

Explores the issue of decolonizing and Africanizing knowledge Identifies and engages with leading African minds and voices on decoloniality Explores many positive ways through which knowledge construction can help in the re-visioning of race relations

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Obert Bernard Mlambo is formerly Associate Professor in Classical Studies and History at the University of Zimbabwe. He now teaches Roman History at Rhodes University.

Ezra Chitando is Professor of History of Religions at the University of Zimbabwe and Extraordinary Professor at the Desmond Tutu Centre of Religion and Social Justice, University of the Western Cape, South Africa.

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Chapter 1 Introduction: Decolonizing Knowledge in Africa.- PART I: SOME KEY FIGURES IN DECOLONIAL THEORY AND PRACTICE.- Chapter 2 Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni: The Oracle of the Decolonial Revolution in Africa.- Chapter 3 Towards a Decolonial African-Feminist Movement: Concepts and Approaches from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Activism.- Chapter 4 [Re]Thinking Decoloniality as Epistemic Violence in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Wizard of the Crow.- Chapter 5 Musa W. Dube, African Women and the Decolonization of African Knowledge.- Chapter 6 John Mbiti's Strategy of Decolonizing Knowledge in Africa.- Chapter 7 Diasporic Engagements with the Legacies of Lumumba and Sankara: Extending Du Bois's Double Consciousness and Fanon's Theory of Colonial Alienation Towards the Decolonization of Knowledge.- PART II: DISRUPTING COLONIAL EPISTEMOLOGIES: THEORIES, KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS, AND WORLDVIEWS.- Chapter 8 Africa Time | Decolonising Hegemonic Time in Africa.- Chapter 9 From the Resource Curse to Resources as Blessings in Africa: Towards a Mindset Shift.- Chapter 10 Endogenous knowledge systems for transforming education policies in Africa: The cases of Rwanda and South Africa.- Chapter 11 Decolonising Technology Education through African Epistemologies.- Chapter 12 Decentring Western Theories in Leadership Training in Africa.- Chapter 13 COVID-19, Empire and Discourses on Knowledge Production: (Re)theorising African Epistemologies.- PART III: RECLAIMING INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGES: SPIRITUALITY AND MEMORY.- Chapter 14 Identities, Indigenous Narratives and Mnemotechnic Devices: New Trajectories on Rozvi Landscapes in south-western Zimbabwe.- Chapter 15 Decolonizing the Curriculum in Zimbabwe: The Role of Wisdom Traditions and Indigenous Forms of Teaching and Learning.- Chapter 16 Silencing the Gods: Decolonizing Religious Experiences.- Chapter 17 Deploying a Religio-cultural Strategy to Decolonisation: A review of Nokuzola Mndende's works.- Chapter 18 African Scholars on Religion and Migration: A Critical Appraisal.- PART IV: TRANSFORMING RESEARCH PRAXIS: ETHICS, PEER REVIEW, AND METHODOLOGIES.- Chapter 19 Decolonizing and Reforming Peer Review.- Chapter 20 A Decolonial Critique of Western-Oriented Research Ethics in Africa.- Chapter 21 Three Actions to Decolonize Egyptology .- Chapter 22 Where To From Here? Strategies for Effective Decolonization.- Chapter 23 Foxes as Symbols of 'Sophia' in Ancient Greek and some African Fables: Universal Frames of Reference as a Decolonial Research Method?.- PART V: DECOLONIZING SOCIAL JUSTICE: GENDER, CHILDHOOD, AND MARGINALIZED KNOWLEDGES.- Chapter 24 Bridging the Gap and Balancing Dynamics in Knowledge Production on the Disability-Poverty Nexus in Africa: Decolonial Perspectives and future directions for African Disability Studies.- Chapter 25 Decolonizing and Africanizing Knowledge in Africa: A Case for Gender Epistemic Justice.- Chapter 26 Decolonizing Psychological Knowledge and Practice in African Contexts.- Chapter 27 Indigenising Child Protection Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa.- PART VI: ENVIRONMENTAL SOVEREIGNTY: CLIMATE, ECOLOGY, AND AFRICAN FUTURES.- Chapter 28 Decolonizing and Africanizing Climate Diplomacy: Upholding Africa's Interests.- Chapter 29 Decolonizing African Environmental Ethics: A Path to African Societal Development.- Chapter 30 Decolonizing Climate Change Discourses through Indigenous Adaptation Approaches: Perspectives from the African Continent.- PART VII: REIMAGINING THE ACADEMY: UNIVERSITIES, DISCIPLINES, AND PEDAGOGIES.- Chapter 31 Condomisation of the African People in Decolonial Thinking: Is Higher Education Playing Along?.- Chapter 32 Tapestries of Knowledge: Decolonizing the Monistic Disciplinary Path in African Education.- Chapter 33 Redefining Diversity for Inclusive Education: an African Context.- Chapter 34 Striking a Balance: Decolonization and Internationalization in South Africa's Institutions of Higher Learning.- Chapter 35 Unveiling Pathways: Embracing a Decolonized Approach in the Definition of the Internationalization of Higher Education in Mozambique.- Chapter 36 Decolonizing the University in Africa: Empowering Indigenous Communities.- Chapter 37 Decolonizing Biblical Studies in Nigeria.- Chapter 38 Decolonizing African Young Adult and Children's Literature.- PART VIII: CONTESTED TERRAINS: PHILOSOPHICAL DEBATES AND LIBERATORY STRUGGLES.- Chapter 39 Lateral Universalism in a Decolonizing World.- Chapter 40 Decolonization in the face of Epistemic Tyranny: In Defense of Difference.- Chapter 41 Decolonizing Knowledge in Africa: Reclaiming Epistemic Freedom through Ubuntu and Transformative Praxis.- Chapter 42 Rewriting History: African Experiences in Fees van die Ongenooides (2008, Katinka Heyns) and Donkerland (2013, Malherbe) and the Decolonization of Afrikaner Nationalism in Post-Apartheid Afrikaans Television Series.- Chapter 43 One Settler, One Bullet: Decolonized War Ideologies Among Azania People's Liberation Army Ex-combatants in South Africa.- PART IX: CRITICAL REFLECTIONS: INTERROGATING DECOLONIALITY ITSELF.- Chapter 44 A Voice to be Heard.- Chapter 45 Secularization and Decolonization of the Academe: In Conversation with African Faiths and Knowledges.- Chapter 46 The Epistemological Question for Decolonization: Insights from Critiquing the Ujamaa System in Light of the Sustainable Development Agenda.- Chapter 47 Difficulties of decolonizing language policy in Central African Republic.- Chapter 48 Conclusion: Decolonising Knowledge in Africa: Summarising the Emerging Issues.