Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contextualising African higher education philosophical debates -- Does the African university exist? Perverse and necessary dialogical conditions -- The place of an African ontology based environmental thinking in Africa's higher education -- Epistemological issues in African higher education -- Towards knowledge pluriversality in African universities -- Universities in Africa and the quest for global epistemic justice -- Boaventura De Sousa Santos' epistemologies of the South: The case of universities in Africa -- Decolonisation debates in African higher education -- An African theory of the point of higher education: Communion as an alternative to autonomy, truth, and citizenship -- Well-being and land reform: Recasting the place of African moral theory in university education -- Multicultural philosophy as social justice and the university in Africa -- Revisiting the politics of higher education at African universities in the 21st century -- Theorising critical citizenship in two Zimbabwean teachers colleges -- Using Sen's instrumental freedoms.

"How can African philosophy of education contribute to contemporary debates in the context of complexities, dilemmas and uncertainties in African higher education? The capacity for self-reflection, self-evaluation and self-criticism enables African philosophy of higher education to examine and re-examine itself in the context of current issues in African higher education. The reflective capacity is in line with the Socratic dictum 'know thy self.' African Higher Education in the 21st Century: Epistemological, Ontological and Ethical Perspectives responds to the demands for reflection and self-knowledge by drawing from ontology, epistemology and ethics in an attempt to address issues that affect African higher education as they connect with the past, present and future"--