Afroconscious Curriculum

Prof Vuyisile Msila is a professor of Public Leadership Studies at the Thabo Mbeki African School of Public and International Affairs based at the University of South Africa. He has published in the areas of leadership, curriculum theory as well as Africanisation. His latest books include Rethinking Higher Education in Africa: Examining Ongoing Struggles for Cognitive Justice and Politics of Transformation (Ed), Developing Teaching and Learning in Africa (Ed) and Africanising the curriculum: Indigenous perspectives and theories (Ed ).

This is a timely contribution to the enduring debate on Africanisation and decolonisation of the curriculum in which the author seeks to stimulate rigorous debate on how to construct a curriculum rooted in African consciousness and values. The book raises critical questions around knowledge production and ownership of knowledge in the African context. For instance, whose knowledge is of most worth?

Whose culture(s) should education embrace and why? Whose epistemology should be taught /or learned in an African university and why? These are questions of profound importance for South Africa in particular, and the African continent in general, especially against the backdrop of the “The #FeesMustFall”

Prof Moeketsi Letseka

UNISA Professor Extraordinaire

UNISA Distinguished Scholar and Distinguished Professor

UNESCO Chair on Open Distance Learning (ODL),

Member: Council of the National University of Lesotho (NUL)