Knowing - Unknowing: African Studies at the Crossroads - Hardcover

by Katharina Schramm (Volume Editor), Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni (Volume Editor)

This book emerges at a time when critical race studies, postcolonial thought, and decolonial theory are under enormous pressure as part of a global conservative backlash. However, this is also an exciting moment, where new horizons of knowledge appear and new epistemic practices (e.g. symmetry, collaboration, undisciplining) gain traction. Through our critical engagements with structural, relational, and personal aspects of knowing and unknowing we work towards a greater multiplicity of knowledges and practices. Calling into question the asymmetrical global economy of knowledge and its uneven division of intellectual labour, our interdisciplinary volume explores what a decolonial horizon could entail for African Studies at the crossroads. Contributors are Akosua Adomako Ampofo, Eric A. Anchimbe, Edwin Asa Adjei, Susan Arndt, Muyiwa Falaiye, Katharina Greven, Christine Hanke, Amanda Hlengwa, Catherine Kiprop, Elísio Macamo, Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Cassandra Mark-Thiesen, Lena Naumann, Thando Njovane, Samuel Ntewusu, Anthony Okeregbe, Zandisiwe Radebe, Elelwani Ramugondo, Eleanor Schaumann

Author Biography

Katharina Schramm, Ph.D. 2004, holds the Chair for Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Bayreuth. She is facilitating the research group "Anthropology of Global Inequalities" which is invested in a critical public anthropology at the interface of Science & Technology Studies (STS) and political anthropology. Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Ph.D. 2004, is Professor and Chair in Epistemologies of the Global South with Emphasis on Africa and Vice-Dean of Research in the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence at the University of Bayreuth in Germany. He has published extensively on decolonization and decoloniality and various aspects of African Studies. His latest publication is Beyond the Coloniality of Internationalism: Reworlding the World from the Global South (CODESRIA, 2024).