ABSTRACT
The role of indigenous African knowledge systems in knowledge production has occupied centre stage in political, social and even economic discourses over the past years. This has led to a rapid expansion of African epistemologies and knowledge systems as fields of investigation that are primarily focused on how to locate themselves within the context of transforming global discourses and contexts. Freedom Park has attempted to understand indigenous knowledge and African cultures, in a manner that deals with the question of African identity from the perspective of African people as centred, located, oriented and grounded. The phrase "indigenous people" refers to a specific group of people who have occupied a certain geographical area for generations. They possess, practise and protect a total sum of knowledge and skills constitutive of their meaning, belief systems, livelihood constructions and expression that distinguishes them from other groups.
