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RETHINKING KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION IN AFRICA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2016

Wale Adebanwi
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Jean and John Comaroff enthusiastically claim that Africa constitutes a rich site ‘of new knowledges and ways of knowing-and-being … that have the capacity to inform and transform theory in the north, to subvert its universalisms in order to rewrite them in a different, less provincial register’ (Comaroff and Comaroff 2011). What role, then, can the African university – which, as described by Jeremiah Arowosegbe, is in a lamentable state – play in creating and generalizing these ‘new knowledges’?

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Debate: Knowledge Production in Africa
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Africa , Volume 86 , Issue 2 , May 2016 , pp. 350 - 353
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Copyright © International African Institute 2016 

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