In the last two decades, we have witnessed the quest for decolonization; through research, writing, teaching, and curriculum across the globe. Calls to decolonize higher education have been overwhelming in recent year. However, the goal of decolonizing has evolved past not only the need to dismantle colonial empires but all imperial structures. Today, decolonization is deemed a basis for restorative justice under the lens of the psychological, economic, and cultural spectrum. In this book, the editor and her authors confront various dimensions of decolonizing work, structural, epistemic, personal, and relational, which are entangled and equally necessary. This book illuminates other sites and dimensions of decolonizing not only from Africa but also other areas. This convergence of critical scholarship, theoretical inquiry, and empirical research is committed to questioning and redressing inequality in contemporary history and other African studies. It signals one of many steps in a bid to consultatively examine how knowledge and power have been both defined and subsequently denied through the sphere of academic practice.

Njoki Nathani Wane is Chair of the Department of Social Justice Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto, Canada. Wane's research interests include African Indigenous knowledges, spirituality, anti-colonial, decolonial, and decolonization theory.

1. Introduction

Part I Decolonizing History and Its impact on education from K-12 and beyond

2. Seafaring Africans and the Myth of Columbus: Reflecting on 14th Century Mali and the Prospect of Atlantic Voyages

3. Ubuntu: Social Justice Education, Governance and Women Rights in Pre-Colonial Africa

4. Women to Women Marriage, Social Justice and House Property System in the Precolonial Period: Implications for Educating the Youth

5. Back to the Roots: Reconnecting Africans in Diaspora through Cultural Media; Education and Personal Narratives

6. Ubuntu an educational tool to dismantling patriarchy: Voices from the community elders

Part II Identity and Ways of Knowing for the Educator & The Learner

7. Knowledge Production and Colonial Myths: Centring Indigenous Knowledges through Decolonization

8. African Indigenous Ways of Being: The Intersecting Journeys of Two Black Women from Different Historical Colonial Experiences

9. Unlearning, Relearning & Remembering: A Dialogue between Two Black Women

10. Resistance, Reparation and Education Awareness: Resurgence of African Identities

11. Cultural Genocide-The Miseducation of the African Child

Part III Spirituality and Land Based Education

12. Three Souls in Search for the Inner Peace and Spiritual Journey: Educational Moments

13. The Soul in Afro Music & Lessons from it: Rhythm and Blues of People of African Ancestry

14. Kumina: Kumina! Afro-Jamaican religion, education, and practice: a site where Afrocentricity, "bodily knowledge" and spiritual interconnection are activated, negotiated, and embodied

15. Land Teachings: lesson from Keiyo Community Elders in Kenya

16. Beyond Territory: Engendering Indigenous & African Educational Philosophies of Land as Counter-hegemonic Resistance to Contemporary Framings of Land in Kenya

17. Conclusion