# Charlie Cobbinah

> Official website of Charlie Cobbinah, a doctoral researcher focused on decolonial discourse, African higher education, and sustainable African futures.

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## Primary Pages
- [Home](https://charliecobbinah.com/): Doctoral researcher exploring how decolonial discourse is reshaping African universities and sustainable futures for the continent of Africa.
- [About](https://charliecobbinah.com/about/): Background and academic profile for Charlie Cobbinah.
- [Research](https://charliecobbinah.com/research/): Research focus on decolonial discourse, African universities, and sustainable institutional futures.
- [Publications](https://charliecobbinah.com/publications/): Academic publications, conference papers, working papers, and research outputs by Charlie Cobbinah.
- [Speaking](https://charliecobbinah.com/speaking/): Talks, lectures, and conference presentations by Charlie Cobbinah.
- [Writing](https://charliecobbinah.com/writing/): Essays, notes, and commentary.
- [Contact](https://charliecobbinah.com/contact/): Contact page for Charlie Cobbinah with direct email, enquiry types, and a live contact form.
- [CV PDF](https://charliecobbinah.com/uploads/charlie-cobbinah-cv-2026.pdf): Current academic CV.

## Research Summary
- Charlie Cobbinah examines how decolonial discourse is reshaping African universities, curriculum, knowledge production, and institutional purpose.
- His work is connected to the Wits-Edinburgh Sustainable African Futures programme, the University of Edinburgh, the University of the Witwatersrand, and the University of Ghana.
- Related themes include decolonization theory, African higher education, knowledge sovereignty, sustainable African development, and philosophy of education.

## Selected Writing
- [Whose Story? Critical Analysis of Primary Sources for Decolonized Curricula](https://charliecobbinah.com/writing/whose-story/): Reflections from the DeCoGLAM launch event on archives, curricular authority, and decolonial pedagogy.
- [Nkrumah's Vision and the Contemporary African University](https://charliecobbinah.com/writing/nkrumah-contemporary-university/): A forthcoming essay reconsidering Nkrumah's thought in relation to contemporary higher education.
- [The Promise and the Risk: On Tokenism in Decolonisation Discourse](https://charliecobbinah.com/writing/promise-risk-tokenism/): A developing essay on the gap between symbolic gestures and deeper institutional change.

## Selected Publications
- Beyond GTEC's Crackdown, Here's What Ghana's Title Fraud Reveals: Opinion Piece | Asetena Pa | 29 November 2025.
- Decolonising GLAMs and the Curriculum: Conference Paper | DeCoGLAM Community of Practice Launch Conference | May 2025.
- "Dziku" and the Death of the Heart: Language, Emotion, and the Onto-Epistemic Turn in African Thought and "Levity": Journal Article | Journal of Language and Intercultural Communication | 2025. A co-authored article examining the Ewe concept of dziku as a site of onto-epistemic inquiry, exploring how African language and emotional concepts can reorient scholarship toward non-Western frameworks of knowledge and being.
- ESD Outside ESD: Possibilities Through a Decolonial Lens: Conference Paper | 43rd Environmental Education Association of Southern Africa Conference (EEASA) | September 2025.
- The Researcher as Ceremony: Decolonising the Self Before Method: Book Chapter | Bloomsbury Publishing | 2025. A chapter exploring what it means to decolonise not just research method but the researcher themselves, arguing that genuine decolonial research begins with the unlearning of colonial epistemic habits before any method is applied.

## Contact
- Email: hi@charliecobbinah.com
- Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charliecobbinah/
- Profile: https://edinburgh.academia.edu/CharlesCobbinah

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