Defining an African vocabulary for the exploration of possibilities in higher education

dc.contributor.authorKumalo, S.H. (Siseko)
dc.date.accessioned2019-04-18T11:42:30Z
dc.date.available2019-04-18T11:42:30Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractIn a review of Coetzee’s White Writing (1988) and Gordimer’s Essential Gesture (1988), Lewis Nkosi (1989) highlights fundamental deficits in South African literature. Owing to inadequate resources and statutory racial divides – instituted by apartheid – Nkosi (1989) responds to these deficits through what I interpret as a series of provocations, that posit an African Vocabulary. Using a narrative approach I suggest a rudimentary articulation of an African Vocabulary. I explore the negotiation of power, and ethics from an African ontological framework for the purposes of reimagining an inclusive higher education system that is decolonised. This treatise facilitates my conceptualisation of an African Vocabulary in a post-apartheid, decolonial higher education landscape in South Africa through revealing colonial attempts at the decimation of African ontologies. Through this contribution, I aim to articulate an African Vocabulary and trouble representations of African subjectivities as static and primitive. I therefore highlight and challenge sustained colonial descriptions of a gradual African epistemic framework. I frame the use of an African Vocabulary in the South African academy as an initial move towards substantive decolonisation.en_ZA
dc.description.departmentPhilosophyen_ZA
dc.description.librarianam2019en_ZA
dc.description.urihttp://alternation.ukzn.ac.za/Homepage.aspxen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationKumalo S.H. 2018, 'Defining an African vocabulary for the exploration of possibilities in higher education', Alternation, vol. 23, pp. 197-223.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn1023-1757 (print)
dc.identifier.issn2519-5476 (online)
dc.identifier.other10.29086/2519-5476/2018/sp23a9
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/69009
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherCSSALL Publishersen_ZA
dc.rightsAlternation is an Open Access Journalen_ZA
dc.subjectAfrican vocabularyen_ZA
dc.subjectDecolonisationen_ZA
dc.subjectumDlakazien_ZA
dc.subjectPoweren_ZA
dc.subjectIdentityen_ZA
dc.subjectEthicsen_ZA
dc.titleDefining an African vocabulary for the exploration of possibilities in higher educationen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA

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