ABSTRACT
It is an ambitious, yet justifiable intellectual effort to bring decolonisation, an African university, and knowledge(s) in and about diversity and plurality into conversation. The very notion of decolonisation implies an intellectual resistance against forms of subversive and colonised knowledge(s). How else would one classify knowledge produced through colonising ambitions which invariably undermines legitimate forms of knowledge? Any political action aimed at subjugating knowledge cannot be considered as legitimate because its premise is undergirded by the notion of exclusion. In this way, decolonisation as an intellectual pursuit to oppose hegemonic forms of knowledge aimed at marginalisation, indoctrination, and exclusion ought to be considered as justifiable on the basis that it challenges forms of knowledge production aimed at domestication and assimilation of indigenous communities. Consequently, the intellectual endeavours by contributors in this volume ought to be lauded for the epistemological courage to subvert dominant and exclusive forms of knowledge production and dissemination.
