Mahmudat O. Muhibbu-Din, Abdul-Wasi Babatunde Moshood, Abdul-Gafar Tobi Oshodi

Keywords: Decoloniality, knowledge, epistemic hegemony, research, African scholarship

Abstract

Euro-American epistemic hegemony in Africa has stimulated the debate to
decolonise western knowledge production and dissemination. Despite
myriads of constraints bedeviling knowledge production in the African
continent by African scholars, few successes are noticeable in African
scholarship. Nonetheless, the emerging role of China in knowledge
production to redress prevailing hegemonic imbalance is largely upsetting structures of decoloniality within the African continent. Consequently, this paper interrogates implications of China as knowledge producer in the context of Africa as China’s knowledge consumer. Analyses in the paper hinged on the notion of decoloniality. Principally, the paper averred that colonial systems created new sites of knowledge production, with spectacular methods, curricular and epistemologies that only serve
exigencies of the colonial state in Africa. In this way, colonialism completely destroyed and altered the precolonial mode of knowledge
production autochthonous to Africa societies. The paper concludes that
central to Chinese educational cooperation in Africa is the transmission of Chinese ideology, culture, and worldview. Thus, China is neither producing Afrocentric knowledge nor Africanising the curriculum. Hence, it is recommended that African must drive knowledge productions that unleash African productive forces and resources for African transformation.

Author Biography

Mahmudat O. Muhibbu-Din

Department of Political Science, University of Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria

Email: [email protected]

Abdul-Wasi Babatunde Moshood, Abdul-Gafar Tobi Oshodi

Department of Political Science, Lagos State University, Ojoo, Nigeria

Email: [email protected] & [email protected]

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