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African Indigenous Knowledge and the Sciences

Journeys into the Past and Present

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  • © 2016

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Editors:
  1. Gloria Emeagwali

    1. Central Connecticut State University, USA

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  2. Edward Shizha

    1. Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada

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  • African Indigenous Knowledge and the Sciences reveals the scientific and historical context of African Indigenous Knowledge (AIK)
  • African Indigenous Knowledge and the Sciences explores the pedagogical and epistemological challenges for teaching and understanding AIK
  • African Indigenous Knowledge and the Sciences promotes science and technology in an African context for academics, policy makers and development agencies

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Epistemological and Pedagogical Issues

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Interconnecting History, African Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Science

      • Gloria Emeagwali, Edward Shizha
      Pages 3-11

    3. Pedagogical Principles in Technology Education

      • Mishack T. Gumbo
      Pages 13-32

    4. Schooling and the African Child

      • Yovita Gwekwerere
      Pages 33-46

    5. African Indigenous Perspectives on Technology

      • Edward Shizha
      Pages 47-62

  3. Indigenous Physics and Cosmology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 63-63
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    2. Time

      • Vongai Mpofu
      Pages 65-78

    3. Interrogating the Concept of Time among the Shona

      • Francis Muchenje, Ruth Barbra Gora, Ngoni Makuvaza
      Pages 79-92

    4. Indigenous Physics and the Academy

      • Mathias Sithole
      Pages 93-105

    5. Tiv Divination

      • Atah Pine
      Pages 107-116

    6. The Stellar Knowledge of Indigenous South Africans

      • Peter G. Alcock
      Pages 117-133

  4. Architecture

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 135-135
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    2. Nigerian Walls and Earthworks

      • Patrick Darling
      Pages 137-144

    3. Enclosures of the Old Oyo Empire, Nigeria

      • David A. Aremu
      Pages 145-151

    4. Enclosures of Northern Yorubaland, Nigeria

      • Aribidesi Usman
      Pages 153-158

  5. Medicine

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 159-159
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    2. African Traditional Medicine Revisited

      • Gloria Emeagwali
      Pages 161-170

    3. Ethnomusicologists and Medical Practitioners in Healthcare Delivery in Nigeria

      • Charles O. Aluede, Vincent Aiwuyo
      Pages 171-181

    4. Using Indigenous Narrative Therapy with People of the African Diaspora

      • Evadne E. Ngazimbi
      Pages 183-195
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About this book

This book is an intellectual journey into epistemology, pedagogy, physics, architecture, medicine and metallurgy. The focus is on various dimensions of African Indigenous Knowledge (AIK) with an emphasis on the sciences, an area that has been neglected in AIK discourse. The authors provide diverse views and perspectives on African indigenous scientific and technological knowledge that can benefit a wide spectrum of academics, scholars, students, development agents, and policy makers, in both governmental and non-governmental organizations, and enable critical and alternative analyses and possibilities for understanding science and technology in an African historical and contemporary context.


Editors and Affiliations

  • Central Connecticut State University, USA

    Gloria Emeagwali

  • Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada

    Edward Shizha

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: African Indigenous Knowledge and the Sciences

  • Book Subtitle: Journeys into the Past and Present

  • Editors: Gloria Emeagwali, Edward Shizha

  • Series Title: Anti-colonial Educational Perspectives for Transformative Change

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-515-9

  • Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature B.V. 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-6300-515-9Published: 08 July 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 220

  • Topics: Education, general

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