Review of Africanizing the school curriculum: Promoting an inclusive, decolonial education in African contexts

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Description based upon print version of record. Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication and Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction: Africanizing the School Curriculum: Promoting an Inclusive, Decolonial Education in African Contexts: An Introduction (Anthony Afful-Broni, Jophus Anamuah-Mensah, Kolawole Raheem, and George J. Sefa Dei) -- Chapter 1: Decolonizing Knowledge in the Bosom of the "Marketplace": Makerere University Scholars in the Age of the National Resistance Movement's Neoliberal Policies (1989-2007) (Nakanyike Musisi) Chapter 2: An Antiracist Education Critique of Curriculum Policy Reform in Postapartheid South Africa (Samiera Zafar) -- Chapter 3: Africanizing the Ghanaian Education System: Learning Through the Prism of an Africentric System of Thought (Patrick Radebe) -- Chapter 4: Decolonized Curriculum in Colonized Contexts: Assessing Ghanaian Public Schools' Role in the Decolonization Agenda (Richardson Addai-Mununkum and Nyuiemedi Agordzo Edoh-Torgah) Chapter 5: Indigenous African Philosophies as a Critical Thinking Pedagogical Tool for Schooling and Education (Isaac Nortey Darko, Paul Banahene Adjei, and Chloe Weir) -- Chapter 6: Spirituality and Self-Care Among Ghanaian Social Workers: Lessons for Africanizing Social Work Education (Paul Banahene Adjei, Isaac Nortey Darko, Sulemana Fuseini, and Abigail Adubea Mills) -- Chapter 7: Contextualized Role-Play, Inquiry, and Eco-Management in Teaching Environmental Education in Junior High Schools in Ghana (Louis Atsiatorme and Kolawole Raheem) Chapter 8: Global Anti-Blackness and Resistance: Implications for Educating African Learners (Rowena Linton) -- Chapter 9: How the Mainstream Media Signified Ben Johnson: A Tale of a Black Canadian Sports Hero Turned Jamaican Villain and the Implications for Black Students (Patrick Radebe) -- Chapter 10: Rethinking Curriculum Through Critical Blackness and African Indigenous Knowledges: A Black Educator's Response (Janelle Baptiste-Brady) -- Epilogue: Connecting Missing Links: A Voice From the Diaspora (Rukiya Mohamed) -- Contributors -- Index