The paper endeavors to address re-imagining education and schooling grounded in local indigenous knowledge by combining three concepts, namely; re-envisioning ways education can be transformed to address current challenges, self-reflexivity and decolonizing the mind as well as decolonizing the education system concerning local language education.

Thee paper analyses the multivocal elasticity and semiotic fluidity in the morpho-semantic spectrum of the politico-religious discourse of Nathan Nyirenda’s song Mwe Makufi Yandi ‘My Knees’. The song is in the Bemba language which is spoken in Zambia and is classified as M42 (Guthrie, 1948).

The concept of decolonization of education is not a new phenomenon as it dates back to the 1960s when the agitators for independence believed that self-government would reverse the status quo of that time. Formal colonial education was considered unfair and discriminatory and worse still it had coloured indigenous African thought, classifying it as pre-logical and pre-critical (Adebisi, 2016).

Toni Morrison, a prominent African-American novelist, was born in Lorain, Ohio on February 18, 1931. Throughout her career, she has extensively explored themes of race and gender in her writing. The recipient of the 1993 Nobel Prize for literature was the first African-American writer to achieve this honor.

This paper is an attempt to respond to Chukwudum Barnabas Okolo’s position that African philosophy emerged at the African-European contact. For Okolo, there was what could be referred to as expressions of philosophic tendencies which were not philosophy per se, called ‘Philosophy in Africa’ which has existed in Africa.