African intellectuals are debating the future of knowledge construction in the wake of the collapse of colonization, European settlerism, and apartheid. Tawanda Sydesky Nyawasha has posited the debate between Afrocentricity and Eurocentrism in his paper “I am of Popper; I am of Asante: The Polemics of Scholarship in South Africa” published in Studies in Philosophy and Education as an expression of this contested ground. This response article argues that Africans have a duty to interrogate their own epistemological discourses in order to understand the history of knowledge construction on the continent of Africa. As the construction of the first pyramid at Sakkara was a consolidating event of human study, detailed investigations, elaboration of ideas, and advancement of the sciences and arts around 2700 BCE, clearly, African studies should stand at the head of the discourses about knowledge. Therefore, in this response, the author challenges Nyawasha’s understanding of Afrocentricity and criticizes the marginalization of African perspectives as just another assertion of Eurocentric ideas as universal when in fact they arise from a specific history and culture.

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我是非洲人和泛非人：对Tawanda Sydesky Nyawasha关于南非奖学金的回应

在殖民主义，欧洲定居主义和种族隔离崩溃之后，非洲知识分子正在辩论知识建设的未来。Tawanda Sydesky Nyawasha在他的论文《我是波普尔；我是波普尔；我是波普尔；我是波普尔》中提出了争论。我是阿桑特人：《南非的奖学金问题》，发表在《哲学与教育研究》中，以此表达了这种争议的立场。该回应文章认为，非洲人有责任审视自己的认识论话语，以了解非洲大陆知识建设的历史。很明显，由于在萨卡拉（Sakkara）建造了第一座金字塔，这是人类研究，详细研究，思想阐述以及科学和艺术进步的巩固活动，显然，非洲研究应站在有关知识的讨论的最前沿。因此，在此回应中，作者挑战了Nyawasha对非洲中心思想的理解，并批评了非洲观点的边缘化，这只是欧洲中心思想普遍存在的另一种主张，而实际上它们源自特定的历史和文化。