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Re-Visioning Education in Africa

Ubuntu-Inspired Education for Humanity

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Editors:
  1. Emefa J. Takyi-Amoako

    1. Oxford ATP, Oxford, United Kingdom

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  2. N'Dri Thérèse Assié-Lumumba

    1. Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA

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  • Encourages fresh ways of thinking about education in Africa

  • Includes perspectives from a diverse and distinguished group of scholars

  • Puts forth policy questions aiming to have an impact on national, regional, and continental governments

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction: Re-visioning Education in Africa—Ubuntu-Inspired Education for Humanity

    • Emefa J. Takyi-Amoako, N’Dri Thérèse Assié-Lumumba
    Pages 1-17

  3. The Humanist African Philosophy of Ubuntu: Anti-colonial Historical and Educational Analyses

    • Ali A. Abdi
    Pages 19-34

  4. Ubuntu and Pan-Africanism: The Dialectics of Learning About Africa

    • Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo
    Pages 35-54

  5. On the Educational Potential of Ubuntu

    • Yusef Waghid
    Pages 55-65

  6. Conceptualizing Gender and Education in Africa from an Ubuntu Frame

    • N’Dri Thérèse Assié-Lumumba
    Pages 67-84

  7. Regaining the Education That Africa Lost

    • Pai Obanya
    Pages 85-117

  8. Ubuntu as Humanistic Education: Challenges and Perspectives for Africa?

    • Mohamed Chérif Diarra
    Pages 119-134

  9. Putting the Cart Before the Horse? Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) the Quest for Ubuntu Educational Foundation in Africa

    • Hamidou Boukary
    Pages 135-153

  10. Re-visioning Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) for the Youth in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Prospects and Promises Within the Framework of the Ubuntu Paradigm

    • Benjamin A. Ogwo
    Pages 155-173

  11. Ubuntu as a Framework for the Adoption and Use of E-Learning in Ghanaian Public Universities

    • Eric Kemeh
    Pages 175-192

  12. Addressing the Challenge of Coloniality in the Promises of Modernity and Cosmopolitanism to Higher Education: De-bordering, De-centering/De-peripherizing, and De-colonilizing

    • José Cossa
    Pages 193-204

  13. Towards an Alternative Approach to Education Partnerships in Africa: Ubuntu, the Confluence and the Post-2015 Agenda

    • Emefa J. Takyi-Amoako
    Pages 205-227

  14. Conclusion: Towards an Ubuntu-Inspired Continental Partnership on Education for Sustainable Development in Africa—African Union Commission Agenda 2063 Education Strategy

    • Emefa J. Takyi-Amoako, N’Dri Thérèse Assié-Lumumba
    Pages 229-246

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 247-257
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About this book

This book presents the case for a conceptual and pragmatic revolution of Africa’s formal educational systems. Using the context of Ubuntu-inspired education, the authors explore innovative ways to tackle the challenges faced by governments from the local and national level and beyond. Along the way, the editors and their contributors examine important policy questions to encourage fresh thinking on ways to improve the educational system and, in turn, to buoy the development of the region as a whole. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Oxford ATP, Oxford, United Kingdom

    Emefa J. Takyi-Amoako

  • Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA

    N'Dri Thérèse Assié-Lumumba

About the editors

Emefa J. Takyi-Amoako is Executive Director and International Education and Education, Gender and Research Consultant at Oxford ATP.

N'Dri Thérèse Assié-Lumumba is Professor of African, African Diaspora and Comparative/International Education at Cornell University, USA.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Re-Visioning Education in Africa

  • Book Subtitle: Ubuntu-Inspired Education for Humanity

  • Editors: Emefa J. Takyi-Amoako, N'Dri Thérèse Assié-Lumumba

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70043-4

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-70042-7Published: 06 February 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88881-1Published: 06 June 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-70043-4Published: 26 January 2018

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 257

  • Number of Illustrations: 37 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: International and Comparative Education, Educational Policy and Politics

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