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Beyond Extraversion: Ways towards Intellectual Self-reliance

Most publications by philosophers, scientists and other scholars from Africa and the Third World have so far been intended for an external audience and particularly a Western audience.

Paulin J. Hountondji Paulin J. Hountondji

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Academic Freedom and the Decolonization of Knowledge: Conflicts and Dilemmas in Higher Education

Decolonization may be taken as a phase in the history of colonized people that is represented by a movement towards a critique of colonial effects during both colonialism and postcolonialism.

Erik J. Olsson Erik J. Olsson
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