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Knowledge production and publishing in Africa

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dc.contributor.author Zegeye A. en
dc.contributor.author Vambe M. en
dc.date.accessioned 2012-11-01T16:31:33Z
dc.date.available 2012-11-01T16:31:33Z
dc.date.issued 2006 en
dc.identifier.citation Development Southern Africa en
dc.identifier.citation 23 en
dc.identifier.citation 3 en
dc.identifier.issn 0376835X en
dc.identifier.other 10.1080/03768350600843010 en
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10500/7323
dc.description.abstract This article explores the practice of 'knowledge production' and 'publishing' in Africa. Knowledge production and publishing in Africa has been and still is dominated by Western experts, most of whose interests do not serve Africa. Powerful social groups in post-colonial Africa construct knowledge about Africa from the sites of universities. Ordinary people also produce knowledge, most of which is elaborated through unwritten forms, and actually contest dominant modes of knowing. Publishing in Africa ought to be controlled by Africans if African states are to realise the dream of an African renaissance. African governments ought to invest in knowledge production and publishing. African intellectuals with university education should work with ordinary African intellectuals to create new sites of knowledge. Knowledge production and publishing is not an ideologically neutral phenomenon. Therefore, African governments should create, and not thwart, conditions conducive to knowledge production and publishing that is self-interrogating. en
dc.language.iso en en
dc.subject education; knowledge; post-colonialism; publishing; state role en
dc.title Knowledge production and publishing in Africa en
dc.type Article en


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