This paper discusses the role of postgraduate research in the construction of a renaissance Africa where African ways are represented in African research. The study contends that, through postgraduate research, African institutions can effectively impart significant intellectual development which will allow the continent to actively answer African questions through the development of indigenous knowledge. Through a desk research approach, this study finds that problems on the African continent could be better tackled using Afrocentric approaches. As such, constructing an African renaissance requires thinking African, imagining African, researching African, and in a way, learning African by slightly unlearning the European and American. While the study does not propose totally discarding Eurocentric approaches, we propose the idea of hybridity, where existing Eurocentrically minded research can be used to conceive of and implement indigenous frameworks and methodologies which could be employed in addressing problems in Africa. Importantly, research work in Africa should begin to mirror African societies, with the objective of constructing a reborn African continent.

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“研究生”-非洲复兴计划：非殖民主义方法

本文讨论了在非洲文艺复兴时期建设中研究生研究的作用，其中非洲方式代表了非洲研究。该研究认为，通过研究生研究，非洲机构可以有效地促进重要的智力发展，这将使非洲大陆能够通过发展土著知识来积极回答非洲的问题。通过案头研究方法，该研究发现，使用非洲中心方法可以更好地解决非洲大陆的问题。因此，建设非洲复兴需要思考非洲，想象非洲，研究非洲，并在某种程度上通过略微不了解欧洲和美国人来学习非洲。虽然这项研究并未提出完全抛弃以欧洲为中心的方法的建议，但我们提出了混合性的想法，现有的以欧洲为中心的研究可以用来构想和实施可用于解决非洲问题的土著框架和方法。重要的是，非洲的研究工作应开始反映非洲社会，以建设重生的非洲大陆为目标。