Fair Open Science as a Powerful Resource in the Fight against Cognitive Injustice in Francophone African Universities and Haiti

Our anger is strong :

-Unequalities between the North and the Global South

-General despise and rejection of local knowledge from the Global South, even by scientists from the Global South

-Universities seen as training tools for the future elite and not as tool of local sustainable development

-Invisibility of science from the South and of languages from the South in academic journals from the North

-Too many dysfunctionalities within universities from the Global South

A situation of global cognitive injustice :

Cognitive injustice is a situation, a phenomenon, a policy or attitude that prevents students and researchers to deploy the full potential of their scientific research capacity in service to local sustainable development.