Mokoko Sebola on ‘Scientific Knowledge in Africa’ : an Afrocentric Critique: research

This paper extends a preliminary anti-thesis to Mokoko Piet Sebola’s thesis titled ‘Peer review, scholarship and editors of scientific publications: The death of scientific knowledge in Africa’. Based on his piece, it is clear that the subject of the politics of scholarship is complex and not unifor...

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Published inAfrican renaissance Vol. 17; no. 1; p. 143
Main Author Shai, Kgothatso B
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London. United Kingdom Adonis & Abbey Publishers Ltd 01.03.2020
Subjects
Afrocentrism
Death & dying
Discourse analysis
Dissertations & theses
Interdisciplinary aspects
Peer review
Politics
Scientific knowledge
Scientific method
Sebola, Mokoko Piet
Triangulation
Africa
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ISSN1744-2532
2516-5305

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Summary:This paper extends a preliminary anti-thesis to Mokoko Piet Sebola’s thesis titled ‘Peer review, scholarship and editors of scientific publications: The death of scientific knowledge in Africa’. Based on his piece, it is clear that the subject of the politics of scholarship is complex and not uniformly understood. In this paper, which is largely based on the triangulation of document review and interdisciplinary critical discourse analysis, I aim to critique Sebola’s piece from an alternative Afrocentric perspective; a voice that has been marginalised in this academic discourse and beyond. In particular, I consistently and systematically refute his outlandish claim that scholarly editors and their peer review processes and mechanisms are responsible for the death of scientific knowledge in Africa. The importance of this interdisciplinary debate and the need for it to be expanded and/or sustained cannot be over-emphasised.
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ISSN:1744-2532
2516-5305