[Un]masking Sebola's Mythology on the Politics of Scholarship in South Africa : An Afrocentric Youth Perspective

This interdisciplinary review article extends the series of replies to Mokoko Piet Sebola's article entitled ?Peer review, scholarship and editors of scientific publications: the death of scientific knowledge in Africa?, which appeared in KOERS- Bulletin for Christian Scholarship, Volume 83 (1): 1-13. The aim of the current article is two-fold: (i) to expose in detail the half-truths that have been overlooked in the 1st reply (The death of scientific knowledge in [South] Africa: An Afrocentric response to M.P. Sebola. Journal of Public Affairs. e1975] due to publication space constraints; (ii) To employ the theory of Afrocentricity for the purpose of dis-abusing the hidden truths about scholarship from Sebola's nebulous editorial mythology. Broadly based on triangulation of document study and critical discourse analysis, this article argues that the possibility of Sebola's unfortunate but systemic and consistent view on scientific knowledge in Africa (particularly in South Africa) being shared in oral or written form by his disciples cannot be ruled out. Given the inter-generational nature of this discourse, it is important that a corrective infusion based on the lived experience of intellectual African youth be proffered as a matter of urgency.