Human Development and the Transformation of the Academy (below) is a piece published in the current issue of Journal of Developing Societies.  It was originally a keynote speech at the November 2010 retreat of the Development Education chair at the University of South Africa, following which the link between PASCAL and UNISA was formalized.   It calls for transforming university curricula by incorporating indigenous knowledge systems (IKS).   Perhaps its most controversial thesis posed for discussion is that within the dominant paradigm there are no solutions to humanity’s principal problems, while incorporating IKS would make solutions possible.   Equally controversial no doubt is the supposition implicit in that thesis that there exists a dominant paradigm in the world’s universities today.