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African indigenous knowledges in a postcolonial world : essays in honour of Toyin Falola / edited by Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso, Ngozi Nwogwugwu, Gift Ntiwunka. - 1 online resource - Global Africa .

This book argues that ancient and modern African indigenous knowledges remain key to Africa's role in global capital, technological and knowledge development and to addressing her marginality and postcoloniality. The contributors engage the unresolved problematics of the historical and contemporary linkages between African knowledges and the African academy, and between African and global knowledges. The book relies on historical and comparative political analysis to explore the global context for the application of indigenous knowledges for tackling postcolonial challenges of knowledge production, conflict and migration, and women's rights on the continent in transcontinental African contexts. Asserting the enduring potency of African indigenous knowledges for the transformation of policy, the African academy and the study of Africa in the global academy, this book will be of interest to scholars of African Studies, postcolonial studies and decolonisation and global affairs.

ISBN: 9781000259803 1000259803 9781003110842 1003110843 9781000259865 1000259862 9781000259834 1000259838

Standard No.: 10.4324/9781003110842 doi

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Ethnoscience--Africa.
Ethnophilosophy--Africa.
Knowledge, Sociology of.
HISTORY / Africa / General

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Africa--Social life and customs.
Africa--Intellectual life.

LC Class. No.: GN476 / .A57 2021

Dewey Class. No.: 306.42096