6 - Globalisation, Decoloniality and the Question of Knowledge Production in Africa: A Critical Discourse
Corresponding Author(s) : Olugbemiga Samuel Afolabi
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
La mondialisation implique le processus de production et d’échange au niveau planétaire, faisant du monde un village planétaire. Aux niveaux épistémiques mondiaux, elle a été dominée par l’eurocentrisme et les paradigmes et plate-formes de production de connaissances occidentales. Caractérisée par des relations asymétriques supérieur-subalterne entre le Nord global en général et le Sud global, en Afrique en particulier, pratiquement toutes les facettes de la production, de l’utilisation et du transfert des connaissances ont été dominées par l’Occident. En Afrique, le processus de production de connaissances a été brouillé, supplanté et finalement asservi aux formes d’éducation occidentales orthodoxes et aux structures des autorités coloniales. L’économie politique mondiale de la production de connaissances a relégué les connaissances autochtones à être perçues comme traditionnelles, non scientifiques et chargées de valeurs. Utilisant un raisonnement logique philosophique et des données secondaires, l’article aborde, de manière critique, ces questions, en particulier celles de la décolonisation de la production de connaissances en Afrique à l’ère de la mondialisation. Il fournit un examen des questions pédagogiques, en particulier des méthodologies d’enseignement et d’apprentissage. Il interroge également la connaissance de la culture, de l’esprit et de soi dans la production de connaissances en Afrique dans le contexte mondial. En plus, il évalue les plateformes méthodologiques de recherche qui inhibent les solutions africanistes d’applicabilité mondiale. Ceci dans le but de suggérer des interventions qui démontrent l’ap licabilité de cadres alternatifs de production de connaissances en Afrique.
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Les références
Afolabi, O.S, 2017, ‘Understanding knowledge production in Africa: issues, prob- lems and prospects’, Journal of Demography and Social Statistics (JDSS), Vol. 4, No. 1 & 2, pp. 10–20.
Afolabi, O.S., 2020a, ‘Cultural narratives, Africanist philosophy and the question of knowledge production in Africa’, in F.E. Omidire, J. Oladosu, G. Fasiku and V. Alumona, eds., Philosophy and Culture: Interrogating the Nexus, Salvador: SEGUNDO SELO.
Afolabi, O.S., 2020b, ‘Conducting focus group discussion in Africa: researching the nexus between state and election administration’, SAGE Research Methods Cases, Part 1. London: SAGE.
Appadurai, A., 1990, ‘Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy’, Theory, Culture and Society, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 259–310.
Bovy, P.M., 2015, ‘The Hostile Renegotiation of the Professor-Student Relationship’, The New Republic Magazine. (https://newrepublic.com/article/121973/hostile-renegotiation-professor-student-relationship) 20 June 2018.
Bukenya, A., 2020, Austin Bukenya: Biography. (https://badilishapoetry.com/austin-bukenya/). 2 June 2021.
Codesria, 2002, Declaration on Africa’s Development Challenges. Dakar: Council for the Development of Social Sciences in Africa (CODESRIA).
Diop, Cheikh Anta, 1987, Pre-Colonial Black Africa: a comparative study of the politi- cal and social systems of Europe and Black Africa, from antiquity to the formation of modern states, Michigan; L. Hill.
Gikandi, S., 2000, ‘African literature and the colonial factor’ in F. Irele and S. Gikandi, eds., The Cambridge History of African and Carribean Literature, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 379–397.
Grosfoguel, R., 2007, ‘The epistemic decolonial turn: beyond political-economy paradigms’, Cultural Studies, Vol. 21, Nos. 2–3, pp. 211–223.
Hall, B.L. and Tandon, R., 2017, ‘Decolonization of knowledge, epistemicide, par- ticipatory research and higher education’, Research for All, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 6–19.
Harvey, D., 2004, ‘The new imperialism: accumulation by dispossession’, Socialist Register, Vol. 40, pp. 63–87.
Hountondji, P.J., 1995, ‘Producing Knowledge in Africa Today: The Second Bashorun M.K.O. Abiola Distinguished Lecture’, African Studies Review, Vol. 38, No. 3, pp. 1–10.
Idowu, H.A., 2021, ‘African culture and the quest for sustainable and improved indigenous knowledge production: Nigeria and South Africa in perspective’, forthcoming in Journal of Higher Education in Africa, Dakar: CODESRIA.
Jefferess, D.M., and Gikandi, S., 2005, ‘Postcolonialism’s Ethical (Re)Turn: An Interview with Simon Gikandi’, Postcolonial Text, Vol. 2.
Jeyifo, B., 1990, ‘The Nature of Things: Arrested Decolonization and Critical Theory’, Research in African Literature, Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 33–48.
Mart, C.T., 2011, ‘British colonial education policy in Africa’, Internal journal of English and literature, Vol. 2, No. 9, pp. 190–194.
Mbembe, A.J., 2016, ‘Decolonizing the university: new directions’, Arts & Humani- ties in Higher Education, Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 29–45.
Mbembe, A. 2015, ‘Decolonising Knowledge and the Question of the Archive’, Lecture delivered at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research. (https://wiser.wits. ac.za/system/files/Achille%20Mbembe%20-%20Decolonizing%20Knowledge%20and%20the%20Question%20of%20the%20Archive.pdf ). 28 May 2021.
Mignolo, W.D. and Escobar, A., eds., 2010, Globalization and the decolonial option, Abingdon: Routledge.
Mignolo, W.D., 2011, ‘Geopolitics of sensing and knowing: on (de)coloniality, border thinking and epistemic disobedience’, Postcolonial Studies, Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 273–283.
Mimiko, N.O. and Afolabi, O.S., 2012, ‘Globalisation and the imperative of cul- tural nationalism in Africa: what has things fall apart got to do with it?’, in C. Anyadike and K.A. Ayoola, eds., Blazing the path: fifty years of things fall apart, Ibadan: HEBN Publishers.
Mudimbe, V.Y., 1988, The Invention of Africa: Gnosis, Philosophy and the Order of Knowledge, Bloomington, Indiana University Press.
Mugo, M.M.G., 1991, African orature and human rights; human and peoples’ rights, Monograph Series. No 13.
Musila, G., 2017, ‘Navigating epistemic disarticulations’, African Affairs, Vol. 116, No. 465, pp. 629–704.
Nazombe, E., 1995, ‘Democratizing globalization: NGOs, education, action, hunger’, TeachNet, Vol. 6, No. 3.
Ndlovu-Gatsheni, S.J., 2013, ‘Why decoloniality in the 21st century?’, The Thinker, Vol. 48, pp. 10–15.
Olufemi, T., 1993, ‘Colonialism and its aftermath: the crisis of knowledge production in Callaloo’, Post-Colonial Discourse, Vol 16, No. 4, pp. 891–908.
Onimode, B., 1988, A political economy of African crisis, London: Zed Books.
Orion, N.T, Hofstein, A.P., Tamir, P. and Giddings, G.J., 1997, ‘Development and validation of an instrument for assessing the learning environment of outdoor science activities’, Science Education, Vol. 81, No. 2, pp. 161–171.
Odera Oruka, H., 1990, ed., Sage philosophy; indigenous thinkers and modern debate on African philosophy, in Philosophy of History and Culture, Vol. 4., Leiden: Brill. Owusu, M., 2015, ‘Ethnography of Africa: the usefulness of the useless’, American Anthropologist, Vol. 80, No. 2, pp. 310–334.
Owusu-Ansah, F.E. & Mji, G., 2013, ‘African indigenous knowledge and research’, African Journal of Disability, Vol. 2, No. 1.
Taylor, S., and Coetzee, M., 2013, Language(s) of learning in South Africa. Stel- lenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP21/2013. (https://www.ekon.sun.ac.za/wpapers/2013/wp212013). 20 June 2018.
Thiong’o, N., 1981, Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Lit- erature, Harare: Zimbabwe Publishing House.
Tuhiwai Smith, L.T., 1999, Decolonizing methodologies: research and indigenous peoples, London and New York: Zed Books.
World Oral Literature Project, 2011, ‘Definitions and Understandings of Oral Literature’, Yale: University of Cambridge. (http://www.oralliterature.org/about/oralliterature.html). 29 May 2021.