Africa-centred knowledges : crossing fields & worlds

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Africa-centred knowledges : crossing fields & worlds

edited by Brenda Cooper & Robert Morrell ; forward by Crain Soudien

James Currey, c2014

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Africa-centred knowledges : crossing fields and worlds

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Proposes a dynamic new approach to the production of knowledge on Africa, one that is global, multiple and heterogeneous, elucidating this through both discursive theoretical chapters and case histories. Knowledge production is a highly political and politicized practice. This book questions the way in which knowledge of and about Africa is produced and how this influences development policy and practice. Rebutting both Euro-and Afrocentric production of knowledge, this collection proposes a multiple, global and dynamic Africa-centredness in which scholars use whatever concepts and research tools are most appropriate to the different African contextsin which they work. In the first part of the book key conceptual themes are raised and the epistemological foundations are laid through questions of gender, literature and popular music. Contributors in the second part apply andtest these tools and concepts, examining the pressures on doctoral students in a South African university, the crisis in knowledge about declining marine fish populations, perplexities around why certain ICT provisions fail, or how some Zimbabwean students, despite being beset by poverty, succeed. The light thrown on the mechanics of how knowledge comes into being, and in whose interests, illuminates one of the key issues in African Studies. Brenda Cooper is an Honorary Research Associate at the University of Manchester. She was for many years the Director of the Centre for African Studies and a Professor in the English department at the University of Cape Town, where she is now Emeritus Professor. Robert Morrell is Coordinator of the Programme for the Enhancement of Research Capacity at the University of Cape Town.

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Introduction: the possibility of Africa-centred knowledges - PART ONE Epistemology: struggles over meaning-making Validated knowledge: confronting myths about Africa by Lansana Keita Re-theorizing the indigenous knowledge debate by Lesley Green Battlefields of knowledge: conceptions of gender in development discourse by Signe Arnfred Knowing time: temporal epistemology in the African novel by Bill Ashcroft Black boxes and glass jars: classification in the hunt for Africa-centred knowledge by Brenda Cooper 'This is a robbers' system': popular musicians' readings of the Kenyan state by Mbugua wa-Mungai - PART TWO Policy and practice: applying the knowledge Science, fishers' knowledge and Namibia's fishing industry by Barbara Paterson, Marieke Norton, Astrid Jarre and Lesley Green ICT for development: extending computing design concepts by Ulrike Rivett, Gary Marsden and Edwin Blake 'Good houses make good people': making knowledge about health and environment in Cape Town by Warren Smit, Ariane de Lannoy, Robert VH Dover, Estelle V Lambert, Naomi Levitt and Vanessa Watson Men of God and gendered knowledge by Akosua Adomako Ampofo and Michael PK Okyerefo Retrieving the traces of knowledge-making while editing a book on postgraduate writing by Linda Cooper and Lucia Thesen Hunhuism (personhood) and academic success in a Zimbabwean secondary school by Leadus Madzima

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