Decolonisation, The Disciplines in African Studies

Abstract

Decolonization is unarguable discourse among critics and scholars in Africa and the global world at large. It is a subject that triggers total freedom and self-independence of republic African nations from socio-economic, political, judicial, and administrative schemes of Western ideological influence. Although all these revolutionary attempts were made by the colonized people of Africa, colonial structures, administrations and, political schemes that had already been put in place are still the determining factors that control the affairs of post-colonial African countries. Previous studies have examined the decolonization of post-colonial African countries from colonial administrative and political structures without paying attention to the decolonization of the educational structure established by their colonial masters. This study, therefore, examines the roles of African university scholars and intellectuals in the decolonization of African minds through an Africanized pedagogical structure in African Studies entrenched in the university curriculums at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. This is in a bid to promote the African social value system within and outside of Africa.