Lecture
African Methodologies in Academic Research
- Date
- Thursday 11 December 2025
- Time
- Explanation
- Amsterdam timezone
- Address
- Online (Zoom)
- Room
- Online (Zoom)
This panel of experts will host a conversation about the need for and uses of African methodologies in academic research. In a context of centuries of colonialism, academic scholarship has been dominated by White, patriarchal, Euro-American epistemologies often unsuited for research on issues affecting various parts of the world. Many communities globally are challenging this epistemic hierarchy by drawing on their own knowledge systems to make scientific sense of their societies and environments. This panel is dedicated to understanding African methodologies, specifically, what they are, how they may relate with or differ from methodologies in other cultures, how African communities are utilising their methodologies in research, and how these might be useful for audience members wanting to decolonise their own knowledge practices. This event is open to an international audience interested in conversations about decolonising academic research.
The event is co-hosted by Dr. Densua Mumford (Decolonising Collective Leiden, Leiden University) and Dr. Juliana Appiah (Legon Center for International Affairs and Diplomacy, University of Ghana).
Speakers
Dr. Araba Osei-Tutu (University of Ghana, Ghana)
Araba A. Z. Osei-Tutu, Ph.D., is a BANGA Postdoctoral and BECHS-Africa Fellow, and a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Teacher Education, University of Ghana, Legon. As an African-centered methodologist, who developed the African Oral Traditional Storytelling (AOTS) Framework and multidisciplinary researcher in education, her research interests include curriculum studies, curriculum development and implementation, pedagogy, culturally and linguistically responsive education, Literacy and English Education, indigenous language and research frameworks, African and Ghanaian feminisms, and postcolonial/decolonial studies in education.
Prof. George J. Sefa Dei (University of Toronto, Canada)
Ghanaian-born George Sefa Dei is a renowned educator, researcher and writer who is considered by many as one of Canada’s foremost scholars on race, anti-racism studies, Black and minority education, African Indigeneity and anti-colonial thought. Currently, he is Professor of Social Justice Education & Director of the Centre for Integrative Anti-Racism Studies at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto (OISE/UT). In March of 2023 Professor Dei received the highly prestigious 2023 President’s Impact Award, given to a University of Toronto scholar whose work has reached beyond walls of academia to significantly impact local communities, nationally and internationally.
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