The Prospects of Ending Epistemicide in Africa: Some Thoughts

Abstract

In this article, I seek to explore the prospects of ending epistemicide in Africa. The literature that challenges epistemicide in Africa largely addresses epistemicide’s impact on the indigenous people of Africa’s knowledge paradigm and call for its reversal. I argue that not much has been written in regard to the prospects of ending epistemicide in Africa. I regard this task as necessary given that the dominance of one epistemological paradigm in the educational curriculum continues to prevail. The position that I am defending here is that the quest for epistemic liberation ought to shift from the theoretical level to consideration of how this noble idea can be put into practice.