The international community refers to this as the era of post-truth. But for African scientific researchers investigating and theorizing African realities, there is nothing new about this era of relying upon stereotypes rather than evidence-based hypotheses to spin familiar falsehoods promulgated in the guise of scientific consensus. The global arena is rife with misrepresentations that sustain the bizarre yet incorrigible conviction that Africans require foreign expertise to direct research agendas and to move development policy in a sustainable direction. This is why academic integrity is so important to uphold particularly as individual researchers and knowledge producers representing academic excellence and proximity with facts on the ground, through your expertise and proximity to indigenous knowledge custodians in this part of the world. By academic integrity here I refer narrowly to truthfulness and rigour in the production of knowledge outputs and in the critical assessment, dissemination or rejection of products already in circulation. Key to this notion of integrity is the avoidance of plagiarism. But in the research sciences integrity entails sustaining the confidence to speak facts to fiction, to resist the overwhelming power of knowledge monopolies, where one’s access to research funding and potential career opportunities rest on one’s capitulating to profit-driven research agendas. This begins by correcting the widespread ignorance that passes as received knowledge and theoretical advice sustained by consensus in the global arena about Africans and the interpretation of long term implications of global capital expansion and resource extraction on the Two Thirds World. But the opportunity to forward such corrections will not be offered; it has to be seized, demanded, fought for. That is a struggle that requires courage and tenacity, it requires defiance and commitment and professional risk-taking.