1st Edition

African-Decolonial Interculturalities

Edited By Hamza R'boul Copyright 2025
198 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

198 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This groundbreaking book brings together scholars to explore African epistemologies as underrepresented and misrepresented sociologies of knowledge in interculturality research, challenging dominant narratives and promoting epistemic justice. The volume affirms the validity of African perspectives based on their originality and non-derivativeness rather than their status of invisibility. It... Read more

Chapter 1 Tamhid

Hamza R’boul

Part 1 Alternative Praxes for Interculturality

Chapter 2 Performing Arts as Cultural Decolonial Praxis in MENA: Applied Models from Egypt

Dalia Saleh Farah

Chapter 3 Umuntu Ngumuntu Ngabantu: Proverbial Lore and African Interculturalism

Finex Ndhlovu

Chapter 4 Embracing Africa(n)-centric Cultural Ethical Codes for Gender Agency Towards Equitable and Sustainable Research Praxis at African Institutions

Neziswa Titi and Eugenia Ama Breba Anderson

Chapter 5 Ordering Diversity, Governing Culture: The Emergence of Interculturality Regimes

Aziz Qaissi

Part 2 Africanizing Intercultural Philosophy

Chapter 6 The Epistemic Risks and Rewards of Intercultural Philosophy

Kirk Lougheed

Chapter 7 How Global Philosophers Could Learn from Intercultural Exchanges with Africa

Thaddeus Metz

Chapter 8 Africa’s Ubuntu Philosophy: Intercultural Perspectives and Experiences of Global South Allies

Dorine van Norren

Part 3 Interculturality for Decolonial Resistance

Chapter 9 Interculturality as a Veil of Exclusion: The Marginalization of Morocco in Global Self-Representation Through Tourism and the Transition from Travelogues to Photography

Azeddine Belmeddah and Mounir Chibi

Chapter 10 Algerian Women’s Claustrophobic Experiences in the Sacred and the Profane in Assia Djebar’s Children of the New World (2005)

Abdelnacer Ben Abderrezak

Chapter 11 Songlines as Transoceanic Intercultural Archives: A Case Study on the Swahili Creole Zikrs of the Siddis in Gujarat

Sayan Dey

Biography

Hamza R’boul is a research assistant professor in the Department of International Education at the Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. His research interests include intercultural education, critical applied linguistics, (higher) education in the Global South and decolonial endeavours in education. His books include Intercultural Communication Education and Research in the Middle East and North Africa (Routledge, 2025) and Teaching and Researching Interculturality in the Middle East and North Africa (Routledge, 2025).