Decolonizing Knowledge Production and Power Relations in African Studies: Prospects and Challenges

Intellectual efforts at removing the vestiges of colonialism in knowledge production and power relations African studies are not a recent phenomenon. Power this context refer to binary nature between Africa Western world terms production, application transference. In its chronology, it has been existence as far first decade independence from European late 1950s. spite novelty these cerebral post colonial era, little or no progress achieved our processes. Postcolonialism an intellectual binocular social sciences remains under-explored standpoint even by researchers Universities. Using theory framework analysis with primary secondary materials, article examines prospect decolonizing epistemological processes studies. It also factors that responsible for slow regard. While maintains positive about probability relations, concluded identified endogenic exogenic challenges require adequate attention all concerned stakeholders.