African Indigenous Knowledge and the Disciplines

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.

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Acknowledgements ; Introduction; Intersections between Africa's Indigenous Knowledge Systems and History; Indigenous Distillation in Northeastern Nigeria and the Production of Argi; Traditional Brewing Technique in Northern Nigeria: An Indigenous Approach to the Exploitation of Enzymes (Tsiro); Traditional Tannery and Dyeing (Yirie) Methods: A Science Par Excellence in Northeastern Nigeria; Terracing and Agriculture in Central Nigeria with a Focus on Yil Ngas; Ancient Terraces on Highland Fringes South of the Chad Basin: The Case of Gwoza and Yil Ngas; Creative Geometric Thought and Endogenous Knowledge Production: Experimentation and Invention Among Tonga Women in Southeast Mozambique ; Indigenous Traditional Medicine in Ghana: Tapping into an Under Explored Resource; African Traditional Medicine (TM) and Social Movements in Nigeria; Art Education: Curriculum, Traditional Knowledge and Practice in Nigeria; The Indigenous Knowledge Systems and the Curriculum; Learning Mathematics in English at Basic Schools: A Benefit or Hindrance?; Indigenizing the Curriculum: The Case of the African University.