3 - Sociology of Knowledge in the Era of Academic Dependency in Africa: Issues and Prospects
Corresponding Author(s) : Oludele Albert Ajani
Revue de l’enseignement supérieur en Afrique,
Vol. 18 No 1 (2020): Revue de l’enseignement supérieur en Afrique: Numéro spécial sur La politique de production de connaissances en Afrique
Résumé
Ces dernières années, la sociologie du savoir – notamment la production, la cir-culation et la consommation du savoir – a été dominée par le Nord global, lais-sant le Tiers-Monde, y compris l’Afrique, dans une position de dépendance. De nombreux chercheurs ont décrit cette dépendance académique continue comme faisant partie des relations coloniales et postcoloniales globales entre le centre et la périphérie, où le premier est considéré comme le penseur, l’acteur et le second, comme le locuteur le premier est considéré comme le penseur, l’acteur et le second, comme le locuteur. Diverses initiatives critiques pour l’indigénisation du savoir (en sciences sociales) tentent de libérer le Tiers- Monde de la dépendance acadé-mique qui en place depuis la colonisation africaine. Cet article critique passe en revue les contributions majeures et les différentes dimensions du paradigme de la dépendance académique dans les sciences sociales. Sont discutés la pertinence des sciences sociales sur le continent africain, la nature et l’origine de la dépen-dance académique, ainsi que les domaines importants qui nécessitent une atten-tion particulière dans l’émancipation des connaissances en sciences sociales en Afrique. Une réinvention de l’érudition africaine est d’une importance vitale pour la libération épistémique de la dépendance intellectuelle. Les pays africains ne devraient pas abandonner leurs pratiques et normes locales exclusives, et doi-vent les documenter et les préserver pour les générations présentes et futures. Ils doivent générer des idées, des terminologies et des technologies de recherche adaptées aux réalités sociales africaines.
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Alatas, S. F., 2003, ‘Academic dependency and the global division of labour in the social sciences’, Current Sociology, Vol. 51, No. 6, pp. 599–613.
Alatas, S. F., 2006, ‘The autonomous, the universal and the future of sociology’, Current Sociology, Vol. 54, No. 1, pp. 7–23.
Andrews, N., & Okpanachi, E., 2012, ‘Trends of Epistemic Oppression and Aca- demic Dependency in Africa’s Development: The Need for a New Intellectual Path’, Journal of Pan African Studies, Vol. 5, No. 8, pp. 85–104.
Arowosegbe, J. O., 2008, ‘The Social Sciences and Knowledge Production in Africa: The Contribution of Claude Ake’, Afrika Spectrum, Vol. 43, No. 3, pp. 333–351.
Beigel, F., 2011, ‘Academic dependency’, Global Dialogue, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 19–20.
Cardoso, F. H., & Faletto, E., 1979, dependency and development in Latin America, translated by Marjory Mattingly Urquidi, Berkeley: University of California Press, p. 60.
Dos Santos, T., 1970, ‘The structure of dependence’, American Economic Review, Vol. 60, No. 2, pp. 231–236.
Dos Santos, T., 1984, ‘The structure of dependence’, in Seligson, M.A., 1984, The Gap Between Rich and Poor: Contending Perspectives on the Political Economy of Development, 1st edition, Routledge.
Fuglestad, F., 1992, ‘The Trevor-Roper Trap or the Imperialism of History. An Essay’, History in Africa, Vol. 19, pp. 309-326.
Fouad, T. M., 2018, ‘Academic dependency’, Medicine Anthropology Theory, Vol. 5, No 2.
Frank, A. G., 1967, Capitalism and underdevelopment in Latin America: Historical studies of Chile and Brazil, New York: NYU Press.
Gamage, S., 2016, ‘Academic Dependency on Western Disciplinary Knowledge and Captive Mind among South Asian Sociologists: A Critique’, Sociology, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 45–61.
Hountondji, P. J., 1997, ed., Endogenous knowledge: Research trails, Dakar: CODESRIA.
MacKenzie, D., 2011, ‘The credit crisis as a problem in the sociology of knowledge’, American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 116, No. 6, pp. 1778–1841.
Mkandawire, T., 1997, ‘The Social Sciences in Africa: Breaking Local Barriers and Negotiating International Presence. The Bashorun M.K.O. Abiola Distinguished Lecture Presented to the 1996 African Studies Association Annual Meeting’, Afri- can Studies Review, Vol. 40, No. 2, pp. 15–36. (https://doi.org/10.2307/525155). 27 May 2021.
Mouton, J., 2010, ‘The state of social science in sub-Saharan Africa’, World Social Science Report. Paris: UNESCO, pp. 63–67.
Muller, J., 2016, ‘Knowledge and the curriculum in the sociology of knowledge’, in D. Wyse, L. Hayward and J. Pandya, eds, The SAGE Handbook of Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment, SAGE, London, pp. 92–106.
Ndlovu-Gatsheni, S. J., 2018a, Epistemic freedom in Africa: Deprovincialization and decolonization, Routledge.
Ndlovu-Gatsheni, S. J., 2018b, ‘The dynamics of epistemological decolonisation in the 21st century: towards epistemic freedom’, Strategic Review for Southern Africa, Vol. 40, No. 1, pp. 16–45.
Ndlovu-Gatsheni, S. J., 2020, ‘The cognitive empire, politics of knowledge and African intellectual productions: reflections on struggles for epistemic freedom and resurgence of decolonisation in the twenty-first century’, Third World Quarterly, pp. 1–20.
Omobowale, A. O., & Akanle, O., 2017, ‘Asuwada epistemology and globalised sociology: Challenges of the south’, Sociology, Vol. 51, No. 1, pp. 43–59.
Omobowale, A. O., Akanle, O., Adeniran, A. I., and Adegboyega, K., 2014, ‘Periph- eral scholarship and the context of foreign paid publishing in Nigeria’, Current Sociology, Vol. 62, No. 5, pp. 666–684.
Onwuzuruigbo, I., 2018, ‘Indigenising Eurocentric sociology: The “captive mind” and five decades of sociology in Nigeria’, Current Sociology, Vol. 66, No. 6, pp. 831–848."
Oommen, T. K., 1992, ‘Reconciling pluralism and equality: The dilemma of “advanced”societies’, International Review of Sociology, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 141–172.
Oyekola, I. A., 2018, ‘Culture and Globalisation’, in O. A. Ogunbameru, A. L. Adisa, and D. S. Adekeye, eds., Cross-cultural management: A multidisci- plinary approach, Ile-Ife: Obafemi Awolowo University Press, pp. 81–102. (http://eprints.lmu.edu.ng/1410/1/Culture and GLobalisationCHAPTER6.pdf). 27 May 2021.
Oyekola, I. A., & Oyeyipo, E. J., 2020, ‘Social Stratification’, in O. A. Ogunbameru, ed., Introductory Sociology, Ile-Ife: Obafemi Awolowo University Press, pp. 125–138.
Schopf, C. M., 2020, ‘The Coloniality of Global Knowledge Production: Theorizing the Mechanisms of Academic Dependency’, Social Transformations: Journal of the Global South, Vol. 8, No. 2.
Smelser, N. J., 1998, ‘The rational and the ambivalent in the social sciences’, American Sociological Review, Vol. 63, pp. 1–16.
Sule, I. D., 2008, ‘Globalisation and The Future of Sociology in The Third World: A Critical Commentary’, NASA The Nigeria Journal of Sociology and Anthropology, Vol. 6.
Tijssen, R., 2007, ‘Africa’s contribution to the worldwide research literature: New analytical perspectives, trends, and performance indicators’, Scientometrics, Vol. 71, No. 2, pp. 303–327."