African-Decolonial Interculturalities

This groundbreaking book brings together scholars to explore African epistemologies as underrepresented and misrepresented sociologies of knowledge in interculturality research, challenging dominant narratives and promoting epistemic justice.

Autorentext

Hamza R'boul is a research assistant professor in the Department of International Education at the Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. His research interests include intercultural education, critical applied linguistics, (higher) education in the Global South and decolonial endeavours in education. His books include Intercultural Communication Education and Research in the Middle East and North Africa (Routledge, 2025) and Teaching and Researching Interculturality in the Middle East and North Africa (Routledge, 2025).

Inhalt

1. Tamhid Part 1 Alternative Praxes for Interculturality 2. Performing Arts as Cultural Decolonial Praxis in MENA: Applied Models from Egypt 3. Umuntu Ngumuntu Ngabantu: Proverbial Lore and African Interculturalism 4. Embracing Africa(n)-centric Cultural Ethical Codes for Gender Agency Towards Equitable and Sustainable Research Praxis at African Institutions 5. Ordering Diversity, Governing Culture: The Emergence of Interculturality Regimes Part 2 Africanizing Intercultural Philosophy 6. The Epistemic Risks and Rewards of Intercultural Philosophy 7. How Global Philosophers Could Learn from Intercultural Exchanges with Africa 8. Africa's Ubuntu Philosophy: Intercultural Perspectives and Experiences of Global South Allies Part 3 Interculturality for Decolonial Resistance 9. Interculturality as a Veil of Exclusion: The Marginalization of Morocco in Global Self-Representation Through Tourism and the Transition from Travelogues to Photography 10. Algerian Women's Claustrophobic Experiences in the Sacred and the Profane in Assia Djebar's Children of the New World (2005) 11. Songlines as Transoceanic Intercultural Archives: A Case Study on the Swahili Creole Zikrs of the Siddis in Gujarat