Patrolling Epistemic Borders in a World of Borderless Pandemics

Yaya Fonye Odette

Description

The global epistemological gendarmerie do not only police epistemologies but they also infect the world with infectious epidemics of laughter targeted at those people whose epistemologies are offhandedly condemned as sterile and useless in controlling and containing pandemics. Patrolling epistemic borders in ways that demobilise indigenous epistemologies, the global epistemological policemen have ironically managed to prevent "transgressive" epistemologies from crossing borders but they have fatally failed to prevent the transgressive COVID-19 from recurrently crossing borders, be they bodily, national or continental. Brandishing fetishised degree and diploma certificates, African comprador academics, who are more interested in fetishised ranks and titles than in creativity and innovation, have also fatally failed to help African communities by producing vaccines for Africans by Africans. Arguing that Eurocentric epistemologies have become sterile fetishes, the book contends that such epistemologies have disabled African scholars from actively producing vaccines on a continent where there are paradoxically more epidemics of mimetic laughter than there are efforts at creativity and innovation. The book is useful for scholars in sociology, anthropology, development studies, languages and communication, natural sciences, historical studies and social work.

Chapter 1: Kupembedza N'anga  Inobata Amai? Conceptualising  Global Epistemological Policemen -  A Decolonial Introduction 

Chapter 2: . COVID-19 Vaccine  Invention and Ignorant Experts in African Universities 

Chapter 3: Cultural Imperialism,  Indigenous Health Delivery  Systems and COVID-19 Vaccination Scepticism in Zimbabwe 

Chapter 4: Mediating Indigenous  and Western Knowledge Systems in  the COVID-19 Response 

Chapter 5: The Efficacy and Effectiveness of New COVID-19 Vaccines to the Old, New and Yet Unknown Variants

Chapter 6: Beshamupengo or Dzihwamupengo (COVID-19) and  the Rebirth of African Medicine 

Chapter 7: "Experts" and the COVID-19  Pandemic 

Chapter 8: Why There Have Not Been Any COVID-19 Vaccines Produced in African Universities

Chapter 9: The "New Normal" Learning and Teaching Modes in Educational Institutions in the COVID(ized) Era: An Appraisal of Zimbabwe and Botswana

Chapter 10: African Epistemologies: Fears and Contestations around the COVID-19 Pandemic in Zimbabwe

Chapter 11: A Political and Economic Endgame: COVID-19 and Politics in Zimbabwe

Chapter 12: Foreign Vaccines, Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Decoloniality

Chapter 13: Culture, Physical/Social Distancing and Social Work Interventions in COVID-19 Afflicted Kenya

Chapter 14: African Languages and Cultures in the Production of COVID-19 Vaccines

Chapter 15: Relegation of Indigenous Languages in the Fight Against the COVID-19 Pandemic

Chapter 16: COVID-19 Pandemic and the Epistemological Policemen

Chapter 17: Tiers of Pandemics: Discoursing Language, Knowledge and Culture for Pandemics' Resolutions in Africa

Chapter 18: Galvanising the Arts, Music and the Media in Mediating COVID-19 Vaccinations in Zimbabwe's Post-February 2021 Era

Chapter 19: The Impacts of COVID-19 on Music Performances in Zimbabwe

Chapter 20: Evil Eyes, Technological Implants, Witchcraft Substances and Epidemics of Laughter in 21st Century Africa

Sujets

• African Studies
• Ethnic Studies
• Traditional knowledge
• Development studies
• Social sciences
• Anthropology
• Décolonisation

Informations

• Publié par: Langaa RPCIG
• Date de parution: 19 novembre 2021
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9789956552528
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

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Patrolling Epistemic Borders in a World of Borderless Pandemics: Epistemological Policemen in COVID-19 Afflicted 21st Century Africa Edited by Artwell Nhemachena, Rewai Makamani & Munyaradzi Mukesi L a ng a a R esea rch & P u blishing CIG Mankon, Bamenda

Publisher: LangaaRPCIG Langaa Research & Publishing Common Initiative Group P.O. Box 902 Mankon Bamenda North West Region Cameroon [e-mail] www.langaa-rpcig.net Distributed in and outside N. America by African Books Collective [e-mail] www.africanbookscollective.com

ISBN-10: 9956-552-63-1

ISBN-13: 978-9956-552-63-4 ©Artwell Nhemachena, Rewai Makamani & Munyaradzi Mukesi 2021 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, mechanical or electronic, including photocopying and recording, or be stored in any information storage or retrieval system, without written permission from the publisher

About the Contributors Artwell Nhemachenais a Research Fellow at the University of South Africa, a visiting Associate Professor at Kobe University and he also teaches at the University of Namibia. Artwell holds a BSc Honours Degree in Sociology, MSc in Sociology and Social Anthropology and a PhD in Anthropology. He also holds a Diploma in Education and a Certificate in law. He has published over eighteen books and over 80 book chapters and journal articles including in the sociology and anthropology of science and technology studies, decoloniality, environment, development studies, anticipation studies and security studies. Artwell Nhemachena is a mentor in The African Academy of Sciences; he is a member of the International Advisory Board of African Journal of Sociological and Psychological Studies (AJOSAPs), Adonis & Abbey; Politeia: a UNISA Press Journal; and he is also a board member of the African Journal of Religion, Philosophy and Culture: Adonis & Abbey Publishers Ltd. Rewai Makamaniis Associate Professor, Research Fellow, University of South Africa (UNISA), Head of Department and former Associate Dean: Research and Innovation at the Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST). He has taught, inter alia, at the University of Zimbabwe. He holds a PhD degree from UNISA (AFL: Specializing in Applied Linguistics and Communication) and a Master of Arts in African Languages and Literature, Master of Arts in Language for Specific Purposes, Bachelor of Arts Honours and Graduate Certificate in Education from the University of Zimbabwe including a number of professional qualifications. He has supervised and examined students’ research projects in Language, Literature and Communication. He has published book chapters and articles in peer reviewed journals. His research interests are in Text Linguistics, Critical Discourse Analysis of land, cultural, courtroom, parliamentary, media and healthcare communication discourses. Isaac Mhuteis an Associate Professor with Midlands State University’s Department of English and Communication. He has vast experience in lecturing and supervising under - and postgraduates. He graduated with a Doctor of Literature and Philosophy in African Languages from the University of South Africa. Focus was basically on the representation of syntactic relations in Bantu languages. He also holds a Master of Philosophy in Arts, from the University of Zimbabwe, specializing in Linguistics. His research interests are in both theoretical and applied linguistics and include language policy and development, syntax and

semantics, onomastics as well as language and communication issues in education, among others. He is a chief examiner for language and literature with an international examining board, professional editor and translator/ back translator (English and Shona). Ruby Magosvongwe is a Research Fellow, English Studies Department, UNISA; she is the current Chair of the Zimbabwe Media Commission with effect from October 2020. Prof Ruby Magosvongwe chaired the Department of English, Faculty of Arts, University of Zimbabwe between April 2015 and August 2020 where she has been a lecturer since September 2001. She is an Associate Professor in Literature in English, University of Zimbabwe and a holder of a D Phil on Literature and Land, from the University of Cape Town, that she obtained in June 2014. She also holds a Master of Arts in English (2000); Special English Honours (March 1998), Bachelor of Arts (1985) and Graduate Certificate in Education (1987) all from the University of Zimbabwe. She has been the Editor-in-Chief of the University of Zimbabwe’s Journal of the Humanities,Zambezia, since March 2017 and also heads the Editorial Board ofJournal of African languages and Literary Studies (JoALLS) under the Adonis and Abbey stable of academic journals. Her research interests are multi-and inter-disciplinary and she takes a multi-sectoral approach in her literary studies research, with acute interest in Comparative Literature, African Studies and African Literature, Gender Studies, as well as Literature and Land. Media Studies have become her new ‘mistress’ and companion. Vuso Mhlangaa holder of the following qualifications: Master of is Arts in English (passed with Distinction), Graduate Diploma in Education (with Merit) and a Bachelor of Arts Honours Degree in English- all from the University of Zimbabwe. He is also about to finish a Bachelor of Law Degree with the University of South Africa (UNISA). He joined the Department of English (UZ) as a lecturer. He has a passion for human rights and educational issues and how they interface with literature. Fananidzo Muchemwais a holder of a Diploma in Education (UZ), BA (Dual Hons) (CUZ) and MA (MSU). He is also a holder of several diplomas that include Personnel Management (IPMZ), Public Relations (LCCI) and Executive Business Leadership (ZOU). Fananidzo is a Head Teacher in the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education. His areas of research interest are land reform, history of medicine-focusing on public health, urban history, environmental history, African culture and other social issues such as prostitution. Fananidzo intends to start a PhD

in History with a local university in Zimbabwe. The study will focus on the history of silicosis in Rhodesia. Ezekiel Mbitha Mwenzwacurrently the Head of Department, is Department of Social Sciences at Karatina University, Kenya, where he teaches Sociology and Community Development. He holds BA (Social Work, 1999), MA (Sociology, 2005) from the University of Nairobi and PhD (Human Ecology, 2019) from the University of Eldoret, Kenya. He specializes in Environmental Social Sciences (Human Ecology) and has particular research interests in Gender, Dryland Development, Natural Resources Management, Rural Development and Devolution, that he blends with his basic Social Work training. He has over fifty (50) publications in edited books and journals particularly on Gender and Dryland Development, with his most recent edited book being Devolution and Development in Kenya: Selected Issues, Challenges and Remedies, co-edited with Prof. Simon Thuranira Taaliu (2017) of Meru University of Science and Technology, Kenya. Lennon Lennos Mapurangaa Senior History Educator and is Researcher in Zimbabwe. He is a holder of an Online and Distance Learning for Teachers in Africa Certificate (UNESCO), a Certificate in Personnel Management (IPMZ); a Certificate in Monitoring and Evaluation (Lupane State University); a Diploma in Education (University of Zimbabwe); a Bachelor of Education Degree (BEd.Hons) in History (Great Zimbabwe University) and a Master of Education Degree in History (MEd) from the Midlands State University. He is a PhD candidate with the University of South Africa (UNISA). He has special research interests in education, decolonisation and governance. Contact information: [e-mail] Felichesmi S. Lyakurwais the Head of Department of Engineering Management Studies, Mzumbe University, Tanzania. He facilitates learning in various subjects such as Production and Operations Management, Quality Control & Assurance, Work Study and Ergonomics, Environmental Management and Project Management, among others. Dr. Felichesmi has BSc. In Production Engineering, MSc Engineering (Project) Management, and Doctor of Engineering in Environmental Science and Engineering (Industrial Ecology). Dr. Felichesmi Lyakurwa has research interests in Blockchain Technology, Application of Industry 4.0 Technologies, Environmental Toxicity, Environmental Management, Six Sigma, Lean Manufacturing, Operations Management, and Governance of Natural Resources, among others.

Reggemore Marongedzeis currently a Lecturer of Digital Humanities in the Department of History, Heritage and Knowledge Systems at the University of Zimbabwe. He is also a Digital Humanities Research Fellow at the Living Tongue Institute of Endangered Languages in America. Dr Marongedze holds a Bachelor of Arts Honours in Shona, Master of Arts in African Languages and Literature both from the University of Zimbabwe and a PhD in Languages, Literature and Linguistics from the University of South Africa. His undergraduate and postgraduate theses cover diverse areas on the interface of music and politics with nuances on orature, culture and multidisciplinary dimensions. Dr Marongedze was the leading thought leader in the recent establishment of a Master of Arts in Digital Humanities degree programme at the University of Zimbabwe. His teaching and research interests include popular music, African literature, theories, epistemology, popular culture, digital texts, Indigenous Knowledge Systems, orature, African renaissance, Africology, African languages, cyborality, digital humanities, comparative studies, gender relations and sexuality studies. Dr Marongedze’s practice includes but is not limited to editing, translation, lexicography, interpreting, social research, and cultural consultancy. Dr Marongedze’s recent major work is the translation of the Zimbabwean National Constitution from English to Ndau language (2018) for the Ministry of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs in Zimbabwe. His fascinating lexicographic and digital humanities works inter alia include an online Bilingual Chikunda to English Dictionary called Chikunda Talking Dictionary available at: http://www.talkingdictionanry.org/chikunda.2014. He has propounded two intellectual perspectives calledChisahwira theory andHutsuroPhilosophy. Dr Marongedze has served as a music expert and critic for Capitalk Radio since 2017 and his recent interview series was on Language, Music and Gender-Based-Violence. Mahuku Darlington Ngoniis a lecturer at Bindura University of Science Education; Faculty of Social Sciences in the Department of Peace and Governance. He is a holder of a Doctorate Degree (PhD) in International Relations, Master of Arts Degree and Bachelor of Arts Honours Degree in International Relations from University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. He is also a holder of a Bachelor of Arts General Degree (History and Economic History) from the University of Zimbabwe. His research interests are international relations and political science with a bias towards civil-military relations, diplomacy, political philosophy and African political ideas, Pan Africanism, international politics, nuclear proliferation and liberation movements. He also contributed various articles on Zimbabwean

politics, Pan-Africanism, international politics, diplomacy, liberation movements and liberalism in the Zimbabwean public media,The Herald. Mbanje Bowden Bolt Chengetaiis a lecturer at Bindura University of Science Education, Faculty of Social Sciences in the Department of Peace and Governance. He is a holder of a Doctorate degree (PhD) in Politics & International Studies from Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa. His research is on participatory development with special focus on a comparative analysis of the way in which participatory approaches are used by indigenous trusts and mainstream development NGOs in Zimbabwe. He holds a Master of Science in International Relations Degree (University of Zimbabwe); Bachelor of Science Honours Degree in Political Science (University of Zimbabwe); Bachelor’s Degree in Technology: Education Management (Technikon, Pretoria); Diploma in Classroom Text and Discourse (University College of Distance Education – University of Zimbabwe) and a Certificate of Education (University of Zimbabwe). His Research interests are international relations, political science, development studies with a bias towards participatory development, strategic studies, security sector reforms, civil military relations, nuclear proliferation, western political philosophy and African political ideas. He also contributed various articles on Zimbabwean politics, Pan-Africanism, international politics, diplomacy, liberation movements and liberalism in the Zimbabwean public media,The Herald. Lungile Dubeis a senior high school educator in Zimbabwe. She is a holder of a diploma in Hotel Operations and Management from the British College of Professional Management (CPM), a Diploma in Education (University of Zimbabwe) and a Bachelor of Education Degree (BEd.Hons) in English from the Zimbabwe Open University (ZOU). Wilson Zivave1980) is a graduate of the University of South (born Africa. Zivave is currently employed with the Ministry of Primary Education as a Religious studies teacher and as a part time lecturer at the Zimbabwe Open University in the Department of Religious Studies. He specializes in comparative religion, Old Testament studies, Religion and Education as well as Gender and religion. His research focuses are multi-inter and Trans-disciplinary in nature, with particular interest in religion, education and policy as well as religion and gender as an emerging niche. In addition, over the past four years, Zivave has been probing challenges associated with implementation of policy in the teaching of Religious studies as well as the imaging of women across religions. He is currently a PhD student with the University of South

Africa. He also serves as a consultant of Family and Religious Studies textbooks for secondary education. He has also authored several accredited articles, a book chapter as well as book publications in Family and Religious studies, Heritage studies, Family, Religion and Morals education as well as Heritage and Social studies for both secondary and primary education in Zimbabwe: Zivave has participated at several national and international conferences. Terence Tapiwa Muzorewaholds a PhD in Development Studies and is a lecturer at the Midlands State University, Department of Development Studies. Terence has broad research interests in sustainable development, housing cooperatives, land and the economic history of rural and urban development. He has written and co-authored works including refereed journal publications on development issues in Zimbabwe. Muzorewa is a member of professional organisations which include the Zimbabwe Historical Association (ZHA) and Young Scholar Initiative (YSI). Aaron Rwodziholds a PhD in History from the University of KwaZulu Natal (UKZN). He chaired the Catholic University of Zimbabwe (CUZ) Research Board from 2016 up to 2020. He has published several articles in peer-reviewed journals as well as book chapters. His areas of research interest include, but are not limited to, political and social history, democracy, ethnicity, race, displacement and culture. He is the current Secretary of the Development Studies Association of Zimbabwe (DeSAZ). Aaron has a Bachelor of Arts (BA) (General) Degree in History and African Politics from the University of South Africa (UNISA), Special Honours Degree in History from the University of Zimbabwe (UZ) and Master of Arts (MA) Degree in African History (UZ). He also holds a Certificate in Education (CE), after training as a secondary school teacher at Hillside Teachers’ College in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe in 1990. Tafadzwa Sibandais currently a PhD candidate at the University of Botswana. He holds a BA (Hons) Degree and Master of Arts in African Languages and Literature both attained from the University of Zimbabwe. Tafadzwa’s research interests include Critical Discourse Analysis, gender in literary and cultural studies. He is also passionate about knowledge sharing. Contact number [[phone]; email [e-mail]/ [e-mail]] Taofik Olasunkanmi Adesanmia Principal Lecturer (PL) at the is Department of English, Adeyemi College of Education (ACE), Ondo, Nigeria. He had his B. A. (Ed.) English in 1996 from the same

institution. In 2005, he got his M. A. in English as a Second Language from the Department of English, Obafemi Awolowo University (O. A. U.), Ile-Ife, Nigeria. In 2015, he embarked on a TETFUND (Nigeria) sponsored PhD in English Language and Linguistics at the University of Lesotho, Lesotho, Southern Africa and graduated with distinction in 2018. His PhD thesis, focusing on “Death discourse and personality assemblage in selected epitaphs from Nigeria and Lesotho,” widened his interest in Anthropological Linguistics and Identity. Between 2019 and September 2020, he was at the University of Bayreuth, Germany, for a DFG postdoctoral research of the Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies which resulted in two papers titled: “Investigating the nexus between animals and Basotho’s identities in epitaphs as death discourse” and “Iconic animals and Basotho’s identities: the relational image of a people in selected epitaphs.” Dr Adesanmi’s researches focus on Death Discourse, Anthropological/Applied Linguistics, Pragmatics, and (Critical) Discourse Analysis. His prolificacy has also produced many off-shore and on-shore conferences, peer reviewed chapters and journal articles. Dr Adesanmi has taught English language, Applied Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Stylistics, and Pragmatics at various levels in different higher institutions including National University of Lesotho where he taught Communication and Study Skills (CSS) and Introduction to Linguistics between 2016 and 2018. Despite the herculean responsibilities in his teaching career, Dr Adesanmi has occupied other positions of responsibilities. From 2014 to 2015, he was the Coordinator, Part-Time Degree Programme; Secretary, School of Languages’ Linkages Committee (2014-2016); Chairman, NCE Accreditation Committee (2019 till date); and currently, Coordinator, Use of English in his department. Matthew Adegbiteis a Principal Lecturer (PL) at the Department of English, Adeyemi College of Education, A. C. E., Ondo, Nigeria. He is broadly experienced in diverse academic fields. His academic qualifications include NCE in English/Yoruba language from St Andrew’s College of Education, Oyo State, Nigeria in 1993; Certificate in Computer Studies (1995); B. A. (Hons.) English Language, Obafemi Awolowo University, O. A. U., Ile-Ife, Nigeria (1997); M. A. Communication and Language Arts, University of Ibadan, UI, Oyo State, Nigeria (2002); M. A. Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Ibadan, UI, Oyo State, Nigeria (2005); and M. A. English Language, Obafemi Awolowo University, O. A. U., Ile-Ife, Nigeria (2012). He is currently on his PhD in English language at the University of Leeds, United Kingdom. His research interests span Forensic Linguistics, Pragmatics, (Critical) Discourse Analysis, and Sociolinguistics. Adegbite has attended and made presentations at local and international