ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|55 pages
African knowledges in the African academy
chapter 3|12 pages
Rethinking the neo-liberal agenda
part II|50 pages
Indigenous conflict resolution systems
chapter 7|12 pages
Indigenous knowledge system of conflict resolution in Africa
part III|60 pages
Transnational gender policy and women’s rights
part IV|46 pages
Media and political discourses
chapter 13|13 pages
Beyond the failing justice system
chapter 15|15 pages
Wisdom-imbecility manipulation
part V|51 pages
African and global migration management