Unyoking African University Knowledges unpacks and explores a new trajectory of how universities in Africa and the knowledges they deliver and produce can be emancipated from the vestiges of the relics of colonialism year after political independence.

Acronyms Notes on Contributors 1 The African University in Pursuit of an Emancipatory Knowledge Trajectory: Deciphering the Dialogues  Amasa P. Ndofirepi 2 African Knowledge and Canonicity: Historical Inertia and Intellectual Liberation  Pascah Mungwini 3 Africanising the University Curriculum: Possibilities and Challenges  Jeriphanos Makaye 4 The African University and the Urgent Need for Decoupling from the Global North  Jacob Mapara 5 Cognitive Justice as Social Justice in Postcolonial Africa: The Idea of the University in the North-South Dialectic  Ephraim T. Gwaravanda and Amasa P. Ndofirepi 6 False Dichotomy in Epistemic Decolonisation of Philosophy  Ephraim T. Gwaravanda 7 From Academic Coconuts to Knowledge Custodians: Redefining a New Epistemic Trajectory for an African University  Simon Vurayai 8 Decolonising the African Union Regional Higher Education Policy: A Tentative Approach against Neocolonial Entanglement  Emnet Tadesse Woldegiorgis 9 Repurposing the University in Africa in the Context of the Tenacity of an Explicitly Racist Epistemology  Teboho J. Lebakeng 10 Social Justice Reconsidered: Making a Defence for a University of Critique Again  Yusef Waghid, Zayd Waghid and Faiq Waghid 11 Decolonising Knowledge in African Universities: Could It Be Too Late?  Gloria Erima 12 The Hermeneutics of a Liberated Knowledge Fund in an African University: Winding Up the Business  Amasa P. Ndofirepi Index