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Authoritarianism, Resistance, and the Future of Democratic Education in South Africa: The University Betrayed book cover

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Authoritarianism, Resistance, and the Future of Democratic Education in South Africa The University Betrayed

By Yusef Waghid Copyright 2026
82 Pages
by Routledge

82 Pages
by Routledge
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Through a fusion of autoethnography and critical theory, this bold, cutting-edge volume examines how South African universities, instead of fulfilling their post-apartheid promise of democratic transformation, have become sites of bureaucratic control, epistemic erasure, and neoliberal authoritarianism. Drawing on African critical theorists such as Frantz Fanon, Achille Mbembe, and Ngũgĩ wa... Read more

1. Entering the University: Hope, Contradictions, and Early Signs of Authoritarianism  2. The Slow Death of Academic Freedom  3. Revisiting the #FeesMustFall Movement, Resistance, and Repression  4. Fanon and the Coloniality of South African Universities  5. Achille Mbembe and the Necropolitics of the University  6. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o and the Limits of Decolonisation in South Africa  7. Surveillance, Control, and the Technological Capture of Higher Education  8. Academic Metrics, AI, and the Corporate University  9. Higher Education as a Site of Struggle: A New Vision  10. A Radical Manifesto for Democratic Higher Education 

Biography

Yusef Waghid is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy of Education, Stellenbosch University, South Africa.

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