Liberatory science is often conflated with postmodern epistemology. These concepts are not the same. Their difference lies largely in the fact that, although postmodern epistemology salvages the knowledge enterprise from the absurdity of modernism, it does not do so to the extent of achieving cognitive justice or liberatory science. Liberatory science is intended to attend to this omission. For, it is "publicly answerable and of some service to progressive interests" (Ross, 1991:29). Engaged scholarship is a means to liberatory science. It is pursued for the public good, for engaged scholarship is scholarship of consequences with utilitarian value. Liberatory science and engaged scholarship are considered in this article, which argues that they have been lurking in what emerged in student activism in South Africa dubbed #FeesMustFall as the variables of the decoloniality project. In other words, as the article ar