PREDICAMENTS OF KNOWLEDGE, decolonisation and deracialisation in universities

198pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2024

"Timely and expansive ruminations on the purpose of the university and knowledge production in post-apartheid South Africa that help us think through the material construction of universities across the African continent. At its heart, the book invites us to contend with the colonial roots of the humanities and the social sciences especially, but all disciplines, precisely to plot a new vision for what they can do and how. For those of us invested in making or consuming knowledge, as well as reconstituting the university, this is essential reading." Victoria Collis-Buthelezi, Director, Centre for the Study of Race, Gender and Class, University of Johannesburg

Suren Pillay is the A C Jordan Chair and Director of the Centre for African Studies at the University of Cape Town.