Education, Communication and Democracy in Africa A Democratic Pedagogy for the Future

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The series of chapters in this book draws together similar themes relating to the intersection of education, inequality, and the struggle for democracy in postcolonial Sub-Saharan Africa.The detailed studies provide insights for policymakers, educationalists, and social and political scientists from a range of disciplines.The failure of equitable participation for all students and citizens in a number of contexts is attributed to, not only the legacy of colonial powers, but the unconscious assumptions which support the status quo in education; the impotence of policy implementation; and the lack of political will of the powerful.The book aims to advance scholarship in democratic citizenship education in Africa through the exploration of various themes relating to the marginalised majority and the causes of lack of any meaningful transformation towards prosperity and a sense of agency and identity.The consistency of arguments across secondary schooling to university students, tutors, teachers, educators, and higher education institutions is interesting.A main recurring theoretical lens in the research is ubuntu, but there are also studies based on decolonial literature, Habermas, Freire, and sociolinguistics.Many of the rationales provoking inquiry arise from the cognitive, linguistic, psychological, and/or economic damage perpetrated throughout the various contexts and countries in the studies.Perhaps greater cognisance could be given to the counter arguments and gains made in post-colonial eras.The book comes at a time of a plethora of current books from Southern Africa into the need to transform Higher Education, for example: The Palgrave Handbook of Learning for Transformation 1 , Reimagining South African Higher Education: Towards a Student-Centred Learning and Teaching Future 2 , Reclaiming Public Universities: Comparative Reflections for Reforms 3 , amongst others, and following on from Jonathan Jansen's seminal book, Decolonisation in Universities.4

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