DECOLONIZATION, DEVELOPMENT AND KNOWLEDGE IN AFRICA, turning over a new leaf

188pp., paperback, Abingdon & New York, 2020

"Frequently, discussions about decoloniality are delinked from discussions on development studies and questions of political-economy. Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni bridges these literatures to produce an original intervention in African Studies and Postcolonial/Decolonial Studies with important implications to Latin America and Asia. The many contributions this book offers are of interest to many fields of scholarship. This is a must to read from the most important decolonial thinker in Africa today!"  Ramon Grosfoguel, University of California at Berkeley

"The focus on complex and deep historical processes of colonialism/coloniality, and engagement with topical theoretical discussions within the fields of political economy, global politics, decolonial studies, development studies and African studies, is complemented by constant reference to past and contemporary decolonial struggles … Ndlovu-Gatsheni is able to produce powerful analyses of the colonial in Africa by bringing Latin American scholars into conversation with African writers who do not explicitly use ‘coloniality’." Felix Mantz, Queen Mary University of London, writing in Review of African Political Economy

Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni is Professor/Chair of Epistemologies of the Global South with Emphasis in Africa at the University of Bayreuth, Germany. He formerly worked as Research Professor and Director of Scholarship in the Department of Leadership and Transformation in the Principal and Vice-Chancellor’s Office at the University of South Africa and was 2019 Visiting Professor at the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study, University of Johannesburg. His most recent book is Epistemic Freedom in Africa: Deprovincialization and Decolonization (2018).