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" Addressing the Challenge of Epistemicide and African Self-Understanding through a Study of Chinweizu’s Ubuntology: "
Lawrence Ogbo Ugwuanyi

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1063599
Doc. No	:	LA107228
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15692108-12341485‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Lawrence Ogbo Ugwuanyi
Title & Author	:	Addressing the Challenge of Epistemicide and African Self-Understanding through a Study of Chinweizu’s Ubuntology: [Article] : Groundwork for the Intellectual Autonomy of the Black Race\ Lawrence Ogbo Ugwuanyi
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	African and Asian Studies
Date	:	2021
Volume/ Issue Number	:	20/1-2
Page No	:	100–123
Abstract	:	In this article, I explore the forms of knowledge available among contemporary African intellectuals to identify their possible outcomes. I examine Chinweizu’s concerted effort in Ubuntology: Groundwork for the Intellectual Autonomy of the Black Race (2004). Through a critical review of this monograph, I suggest other ways to address the challenge of knowledge creation and consumption in Africa. I examine the work through the notion of epistemicide. First, I discuss epistemicide – a major claim that the knowledge design in Africa presently is against the intellectual well-being of the African people. I provide justifications of the claim to epistemicide. Thereafter, I provide a critical intervention to the challenge of epistemicide Chinweizu discussed in Ubuntology: Groundwork for the Intellectual Autonomy of the Black Race (2004). Subsequently, I argue for the need to go beyond epistemicide, and to pursue a system of knowledge creation (or knowledge acquisition, or knowledge application) that will liberate Africa.
Descriptor	:	African Studies
Descriptor	:	Asian Studies
Descriptor	:	autonomy
Descriptor	:	Chinweizu
Descriptor	:	epistemicide
Descriptor	:	General
Descriptor	:	Middle East and Islamic Studies
Descriptor	:	self-understanding
Descriptor	:	Social Sciences
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15692108-12341485‬