I recommend Nyamnjoh in this context.
https://www.nyamnjoh.com/2013/09/potted-plants-in-greenhouses.html
"Education in Africa is victim of a resilient colonial and colonizing epistemology, which takes the form of science as ideology and hegemony. Postcolonial African elite justify the resilience of this epistemology and the education it inspires with rhetoric on the need to be competitive internationally. "
They are engaged by opposing them - showing the unreliability of the knowledge that is produced to the situations they are supposed to provide answers for.
This is most apparent in the literature that is resistant to the epistemologies, the methodologies and research methods of the dominant culture. These speak of Indigenous Research Methods
I would recommend Linda Smith's Decolonizing Methodologies, which is an excellent summary and position statement.
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