Mindly Twists and Turns: A Philosopher’s Memoir

Yusef Waghid

Dec 2021 · African Sun Media

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My familiarity with Professor Yusef Waghid’s scholarship and our collaboration span more than two decades. Therefore, a few words cannot appropriately encompass my account of the magnitude of his academic profile coupled with his personal qualities and engagement. He is a global thinker who has made significant contributions to scholarship in South Africa, the broader African world in the continent and the Diaspora, and the international community. Professor Waghid is an exceptionally prolific writer with consistent academic excellence on topics of critical importance to education and other social institutions, and the struggle for justice and social transformation. He has developed critical insights articulating the importance and necessity of epistemic equality with particular reference to indigenous knowledge system, especially uBuntu. He is a creative scholar with significant and original contributions to knowledge and transformative curriculum and pedagogy. As a public intellectual, he emulates a dialectical relationship between theory and social realities with a consistent engagement for equality and quality educational opportunity, and social progress. He is one of the foremost intellectuals hailing from South Africa with a global stature. In addition to his prominence as a scholar, Professor Waghid has personal and enviable qualities as reflected in his collegiality, trustworthiness, responsiveness, reliability, and unfailing compassion.

Professor N’Dri Assie-Lumumba, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, President of Comparative and International Education Society

About the author

Professor Yusef Waghid reads African philosophy of higher education at Stellenbosch University in South Africa. His institution recognises him as a distinguished professor with 400 academic publications (including 49 books and edited collections) and three PhDs in education, policy, and philosophy. The National Research Foundation categorises him as an internationally acclaimed scholar having considerable world recognition, with some regarding him as a global leader in his field of inquiry. As a member of the Council on Higher Education in South Africa, he has endeavoured to advance a rigorous notion of higher education theory and practice. His most significant service to the academy has been promoting at least thirty-five doctoral students to completion who are serving the educational community with distinction themselves.

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