This groundbreaking book explores the enduring impact of coloniality on South African higher education and calls for transformative change in curriculum, learning, and teaching. Focusing on decolonisation, transformation, and epistemic justice, it critically examines how colonial legacies shape institutional cultures and marginalise African epistemologies, languages, and identities.
Using decolonial, Afrocentric, and African philosophical frameworks such as Ubuntu the book bridges theory and praxis to explore the Africanisation of knowledge and the politics of identity in higher education. Through a social work lens, it engages with processes of deconstruction, reconstruction, and reimagination essential for creating inclusive, contextually relevant universities.
Combining rigorous scholarship with compelling critique, this book contributes to global conversations on epistemic freedom, Indigenous knowledge systems, and postcolonial education. It is an essential resource for scholars, students, and practitioners in Social Work, education, and African studies seeking to advance liberatory pedagogies and socially just academic practices.
Transgender Children and Young People
This collection approaches the current theory and practice of transgendering children. Essays are written against the grain of the popularised medical definition of ‘the transgender child’ as a young person whose ‘true’ gender lies in the brain, or pre-social ‘identity’.
