In Pursuit of Epistemic Healing in South African Universities: Black Students’ Encounters with the Structural and Spiritual Violence of Coloniality in

This book demonstrates the epistemic challenges in the South African education system and asks readers to think critically about the role of the university in a decolonial future. Xaba reveals how Western colonial educational models severed indigenous ways of knowing and learning across the Global South and settler colonial contexts.

Wanelisa Xaba is a queer activist, decolonial feminist researcher and storyteller passionate about decolonial Black futures. She is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Over the past ten years, Dr. Xaba has combined teaching, research and social activism to advance education justice, Black feminism and LGBTIQ+ rights in South Africa. She has lectured undergraduate and postgraduate studies on LGBTIQ+ rights, Queer theories, African feminism, post-colonial theories, decolonial theories and education. She is a fierce advocate for her ancestors.