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The Latin American Studies on the locality of universal knowledge has since given birth to the renewed engagement of the epistemological origins of universal knowledge. This movement sought to demystify that the universal knowledge repository rests squarely on western origins. In essence, the movement argues that universal knowledge belongs to all human kind without claiming that "a privileged" social group owns and enjoys the upper hand in its ownership and utilisation. Assuming that decoloniality is a movement that seeks empowerment outside of the confines of European privilege in knowledge creation, preservation and application, this is a social call to geographically distribute knowledge, which is validated by proponents of decolonising universal knowledge. As scholars of Public Administration (hereafter referred to as the Discipline), the time is ripe for this community to locate the discipline and field of practice in