Decolonised university should be a ‘space of exchange’

African universities should decolonise through human and epistemic diversity and internationalization rather than by adopting a parochial “nativism” and by retreating into epistemic enclaves separate from the rest of the world, says Dr William Mpofu, a researcher at the Wits Centre for Diversity Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.

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2025-03-26
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https://doi.org/10.14749/28667705
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African cultural and philosophical studies
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Abstract

African universities should decolonise through human and epistemic diversity and internationalization rather than by adopting a parochial “nativism” and by retreating into epistemic enclaves separate from the rest of the world, says Dr William Mpofu, a researcher at the Wits Centre for Diversity Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.

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