Dr Lehasa Moloi

Dr Lehasa Moloi
Senior lecturer in the Department of Development Studies at the University of South Africa

Dr Lehasa Moloi is an Afrocentric Scholar grounded in Afrocentricity. He is a senior lecturer in the Department of Development Studies at the University of South Africa. He holds PhD in Development Studies. He is passionate about epistemic decolonization debates and the pursuit for re-humanization in the Global South, in particular Africa is his focus, against the ravages of the colonial past.

His intellectual work is grounded in the paradigm of Afrocentricity as a liberatory thinking frameworks to oppose epistemicides created by European colonialism. He broadly reflects and write on Africa, Knowledge, Development and Decolonization.

He is the author of the recently scholarly published book titled Developing Africa? New Horizons with Afrocentricity (2024), in which he contests the limitations of Eurocentric thinking in the conceptualization of African Development Discourse.