De/Anti-Colonial African Education Futurities

This is a powerful collection addressing the challenges, possibilities and responsibilities for de/anti-colonial African educational futurities. The book is framed within an anti-colonial interrogation of collective educational leadership, responsibility and accountability to address the invisibilization and marginalization of African Indigenous knowledge systems and to examine the critical role these knowledges can play in the decolonization of African education.

George J. Sefa Dei is an acclaimed scholar in the Department of Social Justice Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. Prof. Dei is the Director of the Centre for Integrated Anti-Racism Studies, and one of Canada’s foremost scholars on race and anti-racism studies. He is a member of the Royal Society of Canada and an honoree of many awards including the prestigious Whitworth Award for Career Research in Education (2016) and recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award (2021) from the Ontario Alliance of Black School Educators [ONABSE]. His teaching and research interests include anti-racism, minority schooling, international development, anti-colonial thought, and Indigenous knowledge.

Wambui Karanja is a Ph.D. A.B.D. in the Department of Social Justice Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto (OISE/UT). She holds a master’s degree in law from the University of Toronto, Canada and a Bachelor of Laws Degree from the University of Nairobi, Kenya. . She has written several book chapters and is the author of "Women’s Land Ownership Rights in Kenya" Third World Legal Studies: published in Vol. 10, Article 6. (1991) Wambui is also the co-author of the critically acclaimed anthology, "Elders’ Cultural Knowledges and the Question of Black African Indigeneity in Education" (Springer, 2022) and "Doing Education Differently: Decolonial Pedagogies in African Education" (in-press, 2024).

Avea E. Nsoh is an Associate Professor of Linguistics, Literacy, Language, and Culture at the University of Education Winneba, Ghana. Prof. Nsoh was formerly the Director of Research and Principal of a College at the University. He has a Ph.D from the University of Ghana. He has 30 years of experience in research, teaching, and community work. He was the Principal Investigator in the Farefari (Gurenɛ) literacy project that produced a dictionary, and glossary, and facilitated the introduction of the language into schools. He has authored several books and articles in refereed journals and attended numerous international conferences. Prof Nsoh is a member of the Linguistic Association of Ghana (LAG) and the West African Languages Society (WALS).

Daniel Yelkpieri is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Educational Policy Studies at the Institute for Educational Research and Innovative Studies (IERIS) at the University of Education, Winneba. He holds a Doctorate in Social Sciences (DSocSci) from the University of Leicester in the UK. He also holds an M. Phil in Educational Administration, a B.Ed. in Psychologya Diploma in History from the University of Cape Coast and a Post-graduate Diploma in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (PGDTLHE) from the University of Education, Winneba. Currently, he is the Acting Director of the Institute for Educational Research and Innovation Studies (IERIS) and the immediate past Head of the Department of the Centre for School and Community Science and Technology Studies (SACOST).