African indigenous knowledge and the sciences [electronic resource] : journeys into the past and present / edited by Gloria Emeagwali and Edward Shizha.
Emeagwali, Gloria T., editor.; Shizha, Edward. editor.
2016
GN476 .A475 2016eb
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Title African indigenous knowledge and the sciences [electronic resource] : journeys into the past and present / edited by Gloria Emeagwali and Edward Shizha.
ISBN 9789463005159 (electronic book)
9463005153 (electronic book)
9789463005135
9463005137
9789463005142
9463005145
Published Rotterdam : SensePublishers, 2016.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xi, 220 pages)
Call Number GN476 .A475 2016eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 001.089
Summary This text explores the multidisciplinary context of African Indigenous Knowledge Systems from scholars and scholar activists committed to the interrogation, production, articulation, dissemination and general development of endogenous and indigenous modes of intellectual activity and praxis. The work reinforces the demand for the decolonization of the academy and makes the case for a paradigmatic shift in content, subject matter and curriculum in institutions in Africa and elsewhere - with a view to challenging and rejecting disinformation and intellectual servitude. Indigenous intellectual discourses related to diverse disciplines take center stage in this volume with a focus on education, mathematics, medicine, chemistry and engineering in their historical and contemporary context.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references.
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Added Author Emeagwali, Gloria T., editor.
Shizha, Edward. editor.
Series Anti-colonial educational perspectives for transformative change ; 4.
Available in Other Form African indigenous knowledge and the sciences.
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Introduction / E. Shizha & G. Emeagwali.
Part 1. Epistemological and pedagogical issues. 1. Interconnecting history, African indigenous knowledge sustems and science / G. Emeagwali & E. Shizha.
2. Pedagogical principles in technology education: an indigenous perspective / M.T. Gumbo.
3. Schooling and the African child: bridging African epistemology and Eurocentric physical sciences / Y. Gwekwerere.
4. African indigenous perspectices on technology / E. Shizha. Part 2: Indigenous physics and cosmology. 5. Time: an African cultural perspective / V. Mpofu.
6. Interrogating the concept of time among the Shona: a postcolonial discourse / F. Muchenje, R. B. Gora & N. Makuvaza.
7. Indigenous physics and the academy / M. Sithole.
8. Tiv diviniation / A. Pine.
9. The stellar knowledge of indigenous South Africa. Part 3. Architecture.
10. Nigerian walls and earthworks / P. Darling.
11. Enclosures of the Old Oyo Empire, Nigeria / D.A. Aremu.
12. Enclosures of Northern Yorubaland, Nigeria / A. Usman. Part 4. Medicine. 13. African traditional medicine revisited / G. Emeagwali.
14. Ethnomusicologists and medical practitioners in healthcare delivery in Nigeria / C.O. Aluede & V. Aiwuyo.
15. Using indigenous narrative therapy with people of the African diaspora / E.E. Ngazimbi. Part 5. Metallurgy. 16. Iron metallurgy in Ancient Sudan / J. Spaulding.
17. Iron-smelting in Nigeria / P. Darling.

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