Call for Applications
Writing Workshops
Defiant Scholarship in Africa
Yaoundé, Cameroon
Workshop Dates: 18 – 20 June 2024
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Workshop Dates: 7-9 October 2024
Deadline for Yaoundé Applications: 10 March 2024
Deadline for Addis Ababa Applications: 2 April 2024
Sponsored by the British Academy
University of Buea
Addis Ababa University
University of Oxford
In collaboration with
African Geographical Review and Pambazuka News
We invite early career scholars working on topics connected to and practices grounded in ‘defiant
scholarship in Africa’ to apply for writing workshops in Yaoundé, Cameroon and Addis Ababa,
Ethiopia.
During these three-day hybrid workshops we will work to identify and challenge the academic
racism(s) and academic imperialism(s) that remain embedded within dominant publication models. We
will centre work that pursues decolonial, solidarity, and anti-colonial praxes to break with selfreferencing, recursive, and imperial modes of social science research (Ake 1979). Importantly, our
collective refuses prevailing models of North/South writing workshops that too often commence from
unspoken assumptions that there is a dearth of publishing know-how or skill in African settings that
requires ‘correcting’.
We reject as untenable the neoliberal and corporate models of scholarly publication in Western
universities that have led to the corporate capture of knowledge. This includes, for example, the
implicit or explicit ‘publish or perish’ approaches and their manifestations in African universities as
‘publish and perish’ (Nyamnjoh 2004: 331-335). Such approaches to hiring and retaining academic
labour have resulted in excessive competition, exhaustion (Mason & Megoran 2021), desperation,
plagiarism, and the theft of ideas—all of which are often unevenly racialised and gendered (Muhs et
al. 2012; see also Hengel’s 2022 analysis of discrimination of female-authored articles during peer
review; and Assis et al. 2023: 75 on exclusions faced by women authors in HE). Neoliberal publication
models have led to the gaming of citations by authors, the manipulation of bibliometric data by journal
editors, and interrelated trends like ‘citational erasures’ of contributions from black, brown, and
indigenous women scholars (Smith et al. 2021). Neoliberal publication models have given rise to the
culture of YouTube tutorials and blog posts guaranteeing recipes for fast scholarship. These kinds of
neoliberal and commercial approaches to scholarly writing efface other (uneven) demands on our
labour while promising formulas for ‘maximum efficiency’—(‘turn out one academic article per
week!’)—in a factory-like system that creates profit for the corporate owners of academic journals and
advances individual careers but seldom benefits or even reaches wider collectives and communities.
At these workshops, we begin with a common enthusiasm for experimentation, audaciousness,
improvisation, creativity, ‘slow scholarship’ (Mountz et al. 2015), and more. Our workshops aim to
provide—for Central African and Horn of Africa scholars already engaging in forms of defiant
scholarship—platforms to come together. We seek to nurture and strengthen critical writing
collectives in the regions, to learn together as a transnational group, to practice critical politics of
coalition building (see Lugones 2003). We want to amplify the work that is unearthing counterhistories and offering imaginaries of empowerment and political transformation rooted in wellbeing,
ecological balance, and social relations otherwise. To do so, we will demystify inequalities embedded
within corporate publishing models while learning from the powerful body of scholarship exposing
the complicities and complacencies of social science logics, methodologies, refrains, and discourses
(Smith 1999; Simpson 2011; see also Bouka 2018 on ‘collaborative research as structural violence’).
We are particularly interested in exploring the challenges, hurdles, or limitations that Central African
and Horn of Africa scholars encounter in their pursuit of decolonial, anticolonial, Pan-African, and/or
critical research, writing, and publication.
The availability of AI software like Chat GPT, Google Bard, Grammarly, Copy.ai, and more are
changing publication and writing practices; what are the uses and implications of these tools for
scholars writing and teaching on the continent and those working in solidarity? We will invite journal
editors to reflect on biases in the publishing industry, including when and how peer review can affect
forms of gatekeeping and epistemic policing, and how authors might navigate these challenges (how,
in the words of Nolas and Varvantakis (2019) ‘another review process is possible’). By sharing
experiences, we will consider how African scholars can protect their emergent and developing ideas
from theft, appropriation, and misattribution (Buchanan 2019) and reject colonial patterns of the
‘native informant’ (Khan 2005; Aidid 2015; Mwambari 2019). We will consider the latent
consequences of the rise of some Open Access (OA) models based on excessive fees, and how policies
aimed at challenging readership paywalls to make knowledge more widely available have resulted in
a pay-to-publish model that heightens the exclusion of scholarship by those working at less affluent
universities (Piron 2018; Nobes 2021; see also minutes 47 – 60 and 1:05 – 1:09 of the LSE Firoz Lalji
Centre for Africa dialogue on ‘Decolonising the Global Publishing Industry’).
When considering defiant scholarship in the context of institutional and global conditions,
AbdouMaliq Simone (2022: 191) asks: ‘Where might the [African] university go, and what might it
become?’ Indeed, we navigate seeming impossible barriers, uncertainties, ambiguities, and
contradictions in the very work we seek to do—including that this project is dependent on foreign
funding, the incorporation of corporate publishers even as we criticise them, or clarifications around
what constitutes ‘rigorous’ scientific work (see also de Jong et al. 2017: 229). Another contradiction
that we will work with is that defiant scholarship is often most difficult—and dangerous (Ouma 2022;
Noe 2022; Daley and Murrey 2022b)—for African Early Career Scholars who encounter professional
expectations in their journey to become ‘established’, e.g. to publish in venues deemed legitimate and
be cited in ‘high impact’ journals (Mills et al. 2023; Sawahel 2023). We will think through the
difficulties that scholars face, including practical and political obstacles (Noe 2022), multifaceted
demands on scholars as professionals with families and responsibilities (Dieng 2020; see also the work
of Network of Women Doing Fieldwork.), the seductions of extraversion (Serunkuma’s 2024 article
on entrapments of African scholars in ‘global knowledge’ projects), and more. We seek to think about
creative ways to cultivate delinking and intellectual autochthony, even from within spaces of the
bureaucratic and colonial university and in an academic landscape dominated by commercial journals
in the Global North. For example, that the leading scientific citation indexes, the Clarivate-owned
Web of Science platform and the Elsevier-owned Scopus platform, are overwhelmingly composed of
English-language publications based in Europe and North America and constitute what scholars have
termed ‘bibliometric coloniality’ (Mills et al. 2023).
Drawing inspiration from anti-colonial and decolonial work on epistemic and pedagogical
disobedience (Murrey 2019; Daley & Murrey 2022a), ‘intellectual insurrection’ (Mafeje 2000; see also
Martin and West 1999), and the lessons and insights from important African publishing venues (like
the Langaa Research and Publishing Common and Spears Media Press in Cameroon, Pambazuka
News, and the African Books Collective) we will centre the plurality of projects breaking or delinking
from established canons and orders of knowledge to open up possibilities for self-determination and
liveable futures. We are interested in work that quietly or brashly defies standardisation within
neoliberal institutions, and dynamic scholarship that does not seek validation or legitimacy through
capitalist and colonial epistemes.
Background: Defiant Scholarship in Africa
Scholars have brought attention to the persistence of colonial relations, forms, and logics in the
foundations of global universities and knowledge production (Ndlovu-Gatsheni 2013, 2017; Mbembe
2016; Bhambra et al. 2018; Adamu 2019; Adebisi 2020). In Social Science as Imperialism (1979), Claude
Ake argues that the application of Western social science scholarship in African contexts—except for
the Marxist tradition—amounted to epistemic and political imperialism. Western-derived colonial
curricula stigmatised indigenous languages (Ndille 2018) while imposing capitalist values,
frameworks, and institutions, thus serving the interests of heteropatriarchy (Oyěwùmí 1997), racial
capitalism (Chari 2017; Rutazibwa 2020), and imperialism (Rodney 1990; Ndlovu-Gatsheni 2013).
Colonial influences continue to shape and inform scholarship in and from African societies.
Eurocentric epistemological orders relegated African countries to ‘deficit’ positions (Zeleza and
Adebayo 2004; Pailey 2019). Colonial persistence is apparent in the marginalisation of Africa in global
knowledge creation and circulation (Nyamnjoh 2015a, 2015b, 2021); institutional pressures to
conform to and reproduce positivist studies in neo-imperialist contexts (Mamdani 2018; Nyamnjoh
2021); and dominant interpretations of the continent by Western institutions as places for data
extraction (Gani and Marshall 2022) principally by white fieldworkers (Hagan 2020), 'mere'
empiricism within ‘area studies’ paradigms (Ramutsindela 2007; Macharia 2016; Daley and Kamata
2017; also Serunkuma 2024), 'problem-solving’ research grants (Mama 2007; Branch 2018), and
superficial collaborations imposed by external priorities and funders (Mawere and van Stam 2019;
Musila 2019; Mwambari 2019). Colonial persistence is evident in the ongoing erasure of the functions
of race and racial difference in scholarship on African societies (Pierre 2012; Pailey 2019; Hagan 2020;
Harper-Shipman 2021).
Defiant scholarship is exemplified in the work of Mongo Beti, whose Main basse sur le Cameroun:
autopsie d’une décolonisation (1972) denounced French neo-colonial economic and material violence in
Cameroon and asserted the significance of global visions and practices of Pan-Africanism. Beti’s
teaching and scholarship demonstrated a commitment to exposing political and economic injustice
and fostering a shared consciousness of solidarity and anticolonial resistance. Scholars have worked
to centre diverse forms of knowledge, creativity, and strategies of survival and resistance in response
to historical injustices (see also the panel on Decolonization/Decoloniality in Africa organised by
Toyin Falola).
As a critical concept, ‘defiant scholarship in Africa’ (Daley and Murrey 2022a; Daley 2023) brings
attention to the determined and insurgent body of intellectual work that has long called out,
deciphered, and rendered legible shifting and discordant colonial logics and articulated alternative
approaches to knowledge creation founded upon anti-colonial solidarity (Beti 1972; Ndlovu-Gatsheni
and Al-Bulushi 2022), Black, African, and decolonial feminisms (Endeley and Ngaling 2007; Tsikata
2007; McFadden 2018; Okech 2020; Dieng 2021; Vergès 202; Mohammed 2023), rebellion
(McKittrick 2021), indigenous worldmaking and the sacred (Nkwi 2017), conviviality and
incompleteness (Nyamnjoh 2015b, 2021; Fokwang 2021), humility and ‘companionable connection’
(Gibson-Graham 2006), and more. Defiant scholarship ‘also valorizes the albeit often ragged,
tremulous attempts to stand aside, to risk all kinds of distortions in efforts to shift the terms of the
hegemonic academic game’ (Simone 2022: 192). Our understanding of defiance is not prescriptive, as
Stefan Ouma (2022) reminds us, ‘even among African scholars, it is contested what credible, effective
and comprehensive… defiance is about’.
In the spirit of defiant scholarship, we invite papers that challenge prevailing narratives, seek out
silenced or untold stories, foster contemporary Pan-African and transnational solidarities, and offer
novel and innovative perspectives through life-affirming epistemes, humour, experimentation, and
more.
The workshops will offer opportunities to engage in thoughtful interrogation, fostering a community
of researchers committed to reshaping practices in the social sciences. Sessions will include hands-on
and interactive activities, fieldtrips, peer meetings and mentoring, roundtables, and keynote addresses,
writing prompts and writing feedback, discussion of core readings, and more. In Yaoundé, group
activities will include a visit to the national museum and a launch of the book, Learning disobedience:
Decolonising Development Studies, at Librairie des Peuples Noirs (The Black People’s Bookstore)
founded by Mongo Beti in Tsinga, Yaoundé.
Organising Team & Coordinators
Dr Amber Murrey, Geography & the Environment, University of Oxford, Associate Editor of
African Geographical Review, and editor of A Certain Amount of Madness: The Life, Politics, and
Legacies of Thomas Sankara
Dr Emile Sunjo, International Relations, University of Buea
Dr Ephrem Gebremariam, Geography & Environmental Studies, Addis Ababa University
Professor Abebaw Yirga Adamu, Education, Addis Ababa University, and Director of the
Ethiopian Institute for Higher Education
Dr Nokuthula Hlabangane, Anthropology, University of South Africa, and co-editor of
Decolonising Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) in an Age of
Technocolonialism: Recentring African Indigenous Knowledge and Belief Systems
Dr Walter Gam Nkwi, Institute for History, Leiden University, the Netherlands and author of
African Modernities and Mobilities: An Historical Ethnography of Kom, Cameroon, C. 1800-2008
Professor Patricia Daley, Geography & the Environment, University of Oxford, author of Gender
and Genocide in Burundi: The Search for Spaces of Peace in the Great Lakes Region, and co-editor
of Routledge Handbook of South-South Relations
Confirmed Speakers
Dr Remadji Hoinathy, Institute for Security Studies in Lake Chad Basin Programme, N’Djamena,
Chad
Dr Antang Yamo, Anthropology, Université de Yaoundé I and the Interuniversity Centre for
Indigenous African Studies and Research (CIERAA), Cameroon
Dr Jude Fokwang, Anthropology & Development, Regis University, and co-founder and Executive
Publisher of Spears Media Press in Cameroon
Dr Eyob Balcha Gebremariam, School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol
Dr Rama Salla Dieng, African Studies & International Development, University of Edinburgh
Dr Takiyah Harper-Shipman, Africana Studies, Davidson College, USA
Dr Odomaro Mubangizi, Deputy Director & Director Academic Affairs, The Proposed Hekima
University in Nairobi, Kenya
Dr Sayan Dey, Alliance School of Liberal arts, Bengaluru, India
Professor David Mills, Education, University of Oxford, co-author of Who Counts? Ghanaian
Academic Publishing and Global Science, Director at African Books Collective
Dr Stephanie Kitchen, Executive Director of African Books Collective, Oxford
Dr Hassan Yosimbom, Research Manager, Langaa Research & Publishing Common, Cameroon
Dominik Lukes, Centre for Teaching and Learning, University of Oxford
Professor Joost Fontein, Anthropology, University of Johannesburg
Editorial Team of the Africa Geographical Review, including Dr Benjamin Neimark at Queen Mary
University of London, Dr Hanson Nyantakyi-Frimpong at the University of Denver, and Dr
Matlhogonolo Kelepile at the University of Botswana
Key Details
• Application Deadline for Yaoundé: 10 March 2024; Notification of Acceptance: April 2024
• Application Deadline for Addis Ababa: 4 April 2024; Notification of Acceptance: June 2024
• Eligibility: Early-career researchers pursuing their PhD or within three years of completion
of the PhD. Scholars should be affiliated with a university or research institute in the
Central Africa or Horn of Africa regions.
• Language: Papers must be submitted in English or French. There will be live
English/French translation at Workshop 1 in Yaoundé.
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Workshop 1 will be held in Yaoundé from 18 – 20 June 2024. Workshop 2 will be held in
Addis Ababa from 7-9 October 2024. Accepted participants should be available to attend one
workshop in-person and will attend select sessions of the other workshop online.
Travel, lodging, and meals for accepted participants will be covered by funds from a British
Academy Writing Workshop Grant.
Stipends for childcare and/or internet data are available. If you would like to apply for this
funding, please specify the need in your cover letter and include a brief budget.
Submission Process
Please submit: (1) a 300-word abstract of an advanced research paper that speaks to themes of
‘defiant scholarship in Africa’ and (2) a cover letter of no more than 2-pages that details your interest
in defiant scholarship as well as 2-3 issues that you consider to be the most urgent for scholars
working in your region.
For accepted participants, your advanced research paper must be submitted by 1 June 2024 (for
Yaoundé) and 20 September 2024 (for Addis) to enable response, feedback, and peer reflection
during the workshops.
Submit your application online (for both) at https://forms.gle/QRBr7tQ6T3KkPR7i8 by 10 March
2024 for Yaoundé and 2 April 2024 for Addis Ababa
We look forward to your submissions.
Questions & Inquires
Please address inquiries to Dr Amber Murrey at amber.murrey-ndewa@ouce.ox.ac.uk, Dr Emile
Sunjo at emile.sunjo@ubuea.cm, and Dr Ephrem Gebremariam at
ephrem.gebremariam@eiabc.edu.et
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