RETHINKING HIGHER EDUCATION IN AFRICA, examining the ongoing struggle for cognitive justice and politics of transformation

384pp., paperback, Sun Press, Stellenbosch 2024

ISBN: 9781991260499

A collection of critical essays on transformation in higher education in Africa, from Africanisation to technology. 

"This collection of essays is invigorating and indispensable. Msila collected thought-provoking chapters that reveal unrelenting, but necessary, struggles for cognitive justice at higher education institutions in Africa. University intellectuals should find this book a beacon, as they head for institutional transformation whilst opposing the epistemic violence of colonialism. The chapter contributors draw innovative and optimistic paths that herald a new renaissance in knowledge production." Velisiwe Gasa, Professor in the Department of Educational Foundations, University of South Africa and Editor-in-Chief of Africa Education Review

"In this book, critical contours that lay the foundation for transformation and decolonisation theorisation are sufficiently adumbrated to build new research avenues that would enable scholarship and discourses of Global South episteme to progressively ensue towards Africa 2063. This is a must-read book that would, most likely, form part of the emerging compendium of African scholarship as Africa asserts her true identity, free from the coloniality of power, coloniality of knowledge, coloniality of self, coloniality of nature, and neo-cyber-coloniality. Dr Teboho Pitso, Vaal University of Technology

Contributions include:

"The Five Masts of Transformation: Why transformation shouldn't be accidental" by Vuyisile Msila

"Decolonising Higher Education in South Africa: (Im)possibilities and (re)imaginations in a transforming landscape" by Simeon Maile

"Social Media and Academic Performance: A profile of undergraduate students at a South African University" by Andre Pelser and Katrinka de Wet

"Integration of Sustainable Development Goals into the Higher Education Culture: A pivot for sustainability and innovation" by Dumisani Mncube

"Sustainable Equity in Learning and Education: A case of Botswana" by Reginald Oats.

Vuyisile Msila is Professor of Public Leadership Studies, University of South Africa.