The global epistemological gendarmerie do not only police epistemologies
but they also infect the world with infectious epidemics of laughter
targeted at those people whose epistemologies are offhandedly condemned
as sterile and useless in controlling and containing pandemics.
Patrolling epistemic borders in ways that demobilise indigenous
epistemologies, the global epistemological policemen have ironically
managed to prevent "transgressive" epistemologies from crossing borders
but they have fatally failed to prevent the transgressive COVID-19 from
recurrently crossing borders, be they bodily, national or continental.
Brandishing fetishised degree and diploma certificates, African
comprador academics, who are more interested in fetishised ranks and
titles than in creativity and innovation, have also fatally failed to
help African communities by producing vaccines for Africans by Africans.
Arguing that Eurocentric epistemologies have become sterile fetishes,
the book contends that such epistemologies have disabled African
scholars from actively producing vaccines on a continent where there are
paradoxically more epidemics of mimetic laughter than there are efforts
at creativity and innovation. The book is useful for scholars in
sociology, anthropology, development studies, languages and
communication, natural sciences, historical studies and social work.
