African voices in education: retrieving the past, engaging the present, and shaping the future / Catherine A. Odora Hoppers -- The nature of learning, teaching and research in higher education in Africa / Narciso Matos -- Manufacturing unemployment: the crisis of education in Africa / Paulin J. Hountondji -- Educational research in the African development context: rediscovery, reconstruction and prospects / Mokubung Nkomo -- African/indigenous philosophies: legitimizing spiritually centred wisdoms within the academy / Ivy N. Goduka -- African education: mirror of humanity / Babacar Diop -- Africanist thinking: an invitation to authenticity / Lesiba J. Teffo -- Africanization of knowledge: exploring mathematical and scientific knowledge embedded in African Cultural practices / Sipho Seepe -- Rethinking educational paradigms in Africa: imperatives for social progress in the New Millennium / Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo -- Indigenous African philosophies and socioeducational transformation in 'post-apartheid' Azania / Julian Kunnie -- African philosophy and educational discourse / Moeketsi Letseka -- The problem of education in Africa / Herbert W. Vilakazi.