Peer review plays an important role in academic practice. By definition, it implies a frank and equal intellectual exchange between scholars with comparable capabilities. But does this happen in practice? And what are the consequences? Among other things, peer-review regulates who gets publishes in academic journals - and who doesn't. In this provocative book, the author examines whether the peer review process meets these expectations in practice. She does so by publishing three essays which were submitted to academic journals, and were rejected, together with comments by the anonymous reviewers, and their subsequent correspondence. In an accompanying analysis, she finds that, far from maintaining equality between the reviewer and the reviewed, the peer review process is dominated by scholars allied to western models of knowledge production, who use their; gateway' positions to marginalize and dis- courage African schools of thought. Trenchantly, the author concludes that, in its current guise, peer review is encouraging 'dwarfed knowledge production', and the process is hampering the transformation in South Africa and elsewhere.