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| Title: | Beyond Euro-western dominance: an African-centred decolonial paradigm |
| Author: | Dastile, Nontyatyambo P. |
| Year: | 2013 |
| Periodical: | Africanus (ISSN 0304-615X) |
| Volume: | 43 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Pages: | 93-104 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Africa |
| Subjects: | postcolonialism pan-Africanism epistemology values African identity |
| Abstract: | The author maps out the contours of an African-centred decolonial paradigm by looking at the following paradigms: Afrocentrism (proposed by Molefe Kete Asante), Africanity and combative ontology (Archie Mafeje), Afrikology, interdisciplinarity and a restorative epistemology (Dani Wadada Nabudere), and the African-centred paradigm of Keto Tshehloane. Similar to Afrocentrism and Africanity, Nabudere sketches a history of dislocatedness, deculturization and dehistoricization of African people and the diaspora. The author suggests that through Afrikology, as a universal, restorative transdisciplinary paradigm, an assumption of African originality from a psychological, social, spiritual, cultural and political vantage point will emerge. This would lead to knowledge generation that has both epistemic significance and related community contributions and relevance. Nabudere proposes the use of open-ended hermeneutical approaches as a counter-hegemonic discourse for enabling deconstruction, reconstruction and regeneration of knowledge, which resonates with the ideals of pan-Africanism. The current study adopts this Afrikological approach, because it is not only based on endogeneity and centredness, but also on the acceptance of pluralism and cultural diversity. Bibliogr., sum. [ASC Leiden abstract] |
