Knowledge Production in Africa: -Rethinking Knowledge production in Africa - debate

Abstract

..... 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).1 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'? .....