ABSTRACT

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book presents a collaborative research paradigm or model that may be replicated by other ethnonations to identify and integrate their Indigenous Education constructs and knowledge within African formal Western Education systems. It provides an Afrocentric philosophy of community centeredness. The book examines the important and continued roles of women in Indigenous Science Knowledge through their contributions to Igbo agricultural and medicinal disciplines. It also focuses on Indigenous Knowledge structures and their role in the maintenance of culture and society. The book provides a synthesis of the findings and recommendations within a critical, post-colonial, and African feminist theoretical framework. It addresses the significance of the grounded collaborative, multilayered research model to identify Indigenous Knowledge and ways that it works for parity across demographics of gender, religion, and ethnonational identities.