Decoloniality and African Education: Contested Issues and Challenges

Decoloniality and African Education: Contested Issues and Challenges is a vibrant and vital collection of essays that addresses the challenges, possibilities, and responsibilities for the future of de- and anti-colonial African education.Decolonization has become a buzz word of late, so the term is used in this context with a certain trepidation.But the themes of this book go beyond mere rhetoric by creating specific approaches to dismantling colonial educational systems in African and to create a new environment for African education duly informed by local cultural resource knowing, known from grounded everyday practices of authentic African educators.In other words, a revision of educational practices informed by what educators know and are doing for the lessons in envisioning schooling and education in Africa.In this endeavor, while we seek lessons and partnerships with others, African educators are urged to think through solutions specific to the problems and challenges in schools