Contributions Of Africa S Indigenous Knowledge To The Wave Of Digital Technology Decolonial Perspectives

Author : Niyitunga, Eric Blanco
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781668478523

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Contributions of Africa’s Indigenous Knowledge to the Wave of Digital Technology: Decolonial Perspectives by Niyitunga, Eric Blanco Pdf

Africa's contributions to global technological advancements are often overlooked, with many scholars claiming that the continent has yet to contribute significantly to digital technology. This misconception stems from a need for more understanding and recognition of Africa's indigenous knowledge and its role in shaping the modern world. The education curriculum inherited from colonialism must differentiate Africa's values and culture from Western ideals, leading to a devaluation of Africa's mineral wealth in technological advancements. Additionally, the impact of historical events such as the Atlantic slave trade and colonialism on Africa's indigenous knowledge remains largely unexplored, further contributing to the misunderstanding of Africa's technological contributions. Contributions of Africa's Indigenous Knowledge to the Wave of Digital Technology: Decolonial Perspectives offers a comprehensive exploration of Africa's indigenous knowledge and its crucial role in the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR). By taking a decolonial perspective and examining the literature on African Studies, the book aims to shed light on Africa's significant contributions to digital technology. Through a qualitative research design and an exploratory approach, the book will collect and analyze data from secondary sources to showcase Africa's rich technological advancements and history of innovations.

Author : Eric Blanco Niyitunga
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1668478552

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Contributions of Africa's Indigenous Knowledge to the Wave of Digital Technology by Eric Blanco Niyitunga Pdf

Africa's contributions to global technological advancements are often overlooked, with many scholars claiming that the continent has yet to contribute significantly to digital technology. This misconception stems from a need for more understanding and recognition of Africa's indigenous knowledge and its role in shaping the modern world. The education curriculum inherited from colonialism must differentiate Africa's values and culture from Western ideals, leading to a devaluation of Africa's mineral wealth in technological advancements. Additionally, the impact of historical events such as the Atlantic slave trade and colonialism on Africa's indigenous knowledge remains largely unexplored, further contributing to the misunderstanding of Africa's technological contributions. Contributions of Africa's Indigenous Knowledge to the Wave of Digital Technology: Decolonial Perspectives offers a comprehensive exploration of Africa's indigenous knowledge and its crucial role in the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR). By taking a decolonial perspective and examining the literature on African Studies, the book aims to shed light on Africa's significant contributions to digital technology. Through a qualitative research design and an exploratory approach, the book will collect and analyze data from secondary sources to showcase Africa's rich technological advancements and history of innovations.

Author : Dharm Singh Jat,Jürgen Sieck,Hippolyte N'Sung-Nza Muyingi,Heike Winschiers-Theophilus,Anicia Peters,Shawulu Nggada
Publisher : Springer
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-09
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9789811076978

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Digitisation of Culture: Namibian and International Perspectives by Dharm Singh Jat,Jürgen Sieck,Hippolyte N'Sung-Nza Muyingi,Heike Winschiers-Theophilus,Anicia Peters,Shawulu Nggada Pdf

This book explores the digitization of culture as a means of experiencing and understanding cultural heritage in Namibia and from international perspectives. It provides various views and perspectives on the digitization of culture, the goal being to stimulate further research, and to rapidly disseminate related discoveries. Aspects covered here include: virtual and augmented reality, audio and video technology, art, multimedia and digital media integration, cross-media technologies, modeling, visualization and interaction as a means of experiencing and grasping cultural heritage. Over the past few decades, digitization has profoundly changed our cultural experience, not only in terms of digital technology-based access, production and dissemination, but also in terms of participation and creation, and learning and partaking in a knowledge society. Computing researchers have developed a wealth of new digital systems for preserving, sharing and interacting with cultural resources. The book provides important information and tools for policy makers, knowledge experts, cultural and creative industries, communication scientists, professionals, educators, librarians and artists, as well as computing scientists and engineers conducting research on cultural topics.

Author : Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-16
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780262342339

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What Do Science, Technology, and Innovation Mean from Africa? by Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga Pdf

Explorations of science, technology, and innovation in Africa not as the product of “technology transfer” from elsewhere but as the working of African knowledge. In the STI literature, Africa has often been regarded as a recipient of science, technology, and innovation rather than a maker of them. In this book, scholars from a range of disciplines show that STI in Africa is not merely the product of “technology transfer” from elsewhere but the working of African knowledge. Their contributions focus on African ways of looking, meaning-making, and creating. The chapter authors see Africans as intellectual agents whose perspectives constitute authoritative knowledge and whose strategic deployment of both endogenous and inbound things represents an African-centered notion of STI. “Things do not (always) mean the same from everywhere,” observes Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga, the volume's editor. Western, colonialist definitions of STI are not universalizable. The contributors discuss topics that include the trivialization of indigenous knowledge under colonialism; the creative labor of chimurenga, the transformation of everyday surroundings into military infrastructure; the role of enslaved Africans in America as innovators and synthesizers; the African ethos of “fixing”; the constitutive appropriation that makes mobile technologies African; and an African innovation strategy that builds on domestic capacities. The contributions describe an Africa that is creative, technological, and scientific, showing that African STI is the latest iteration of a long process of accumulative, multicultural knowledge production. Contributors Geri Augusto, Shadreck Chirikure, Chux Daniels, Ron Eglash, Ellen Foster, Garrick E. Louis, D. A. Masolo, Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga, Neda Nazemi, Toluwalogo Odumosu, Katrien Pype, Scott Remer

Author : L. O. Aina,Stephen M. Mutula,Mutawakilu Adisa Tiamiyu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Information technology
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132067039

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Information and Knowledge Management in the Digital Age by L. O. Aina,Stephen M. Mutula,Mutawakilu Adisa Tiamiyu Pdf

Author : Ngulube, Patrick
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781522508342

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Handbook of Research on Theoretical Perspectives on Indigenous Knowledge Systems in Developing Countries by Ngulube, Patrick Pdf

There has been a growth in the use, acceptance, and popularity of indigenous knowledge. High rates of poverty and a widening economic divide is threatening the accessibility to western scientific knowledge in the developing world where many indigenous people live. Consequently, indigenous knowledge has become a potential source for sustainable development in the developing world. The Handbook of Research on Theoretical Perspectives on Indigenous Knowledge Systems in Developing Countries presents interdisciplinary research on knowledge management, sharing, and transfer among indigenous communities. Providing a unique perspective on alternative knowledge systems, this publication is a critical resource for sociologists, anthropologists, researchers, and graduate-level students in a variety of fields.

Author : Masenya, Tlou Maggie
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781668470251

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Digital Preservation and Documentation of Global Indigenous Knowledge Systems by Masenya, Tlou Maggie Pdf

Indigenous knowledge is regarded as undocumented cultural, local, traditional, and community knowledge produced and owned by local people in their specific communities. It is mainly preserved in the memories of elders and shared or passed on from generation to generation through oral communication, traditional practices, and demonstrations. This irreplaceable resource may be lost forever as a direct result of the pressures of modernization, colonization, and globalization. Concern over the loss of Indigenous knowledge has thus raised a need for the preservation and documentation of this knowledge in digital formats. Digital Preservation and Documentation of Global Indigenous Knowledge Systems determines how Indigenous knowledge can be documented and digitally preserved to benefit Indigenous knowledge owners and their communities and be accessible for future generations. The book provides the best practices, innovative strategies, theoretical and conceptual frameworks, and empirical research findings regarding the digital preservation and documentation of Indigenous knowledge systems worldwide. Covering topics such as digital media platforms, educational management, and knowledge systems, this premier reference source is a valuable and useful tool for students, information professionals, knowledge managers, records managers, Indigenous knowledge owners, Indigenous community leaders, librarians, archivists, computer scientists, information technology specialists, students and educators of higher education, researchers, and academicians.

Author : Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba,Adeshina Afolayan,Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030343040

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Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Development in Africa by Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba,Adeshina Afolayan,Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso Pdf

This edited volume analyzes African knowledge production and alternative development paths of the region. The contributors demonstrate ways in which African-centered knowledge refutes stereotypes depicted by Euro-centric scholars and, overall, examine indigenous African contributions in global knowledge production and development. The project provides historical and contemporary evidences that challenge the dominance of Euro-centric knowledge, particularly, about Africa, across various disciplines. Each chapter engages with existing scholarship and extends it by emphasizing on Indigenous knowledge systems in addition to future indicators of African knowledge production.

Author : Ibigbolade Aderibigbe,Alloy Ihuah,Felisters Kripono
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443881272

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Contextualizing Indigenous Knowledge in Africa and its Diaspora by Ibigbolade Aderibigbe,Alloy Ihuah,Felisters Kripono Pdf

This volume proposes a wholesale adoption of African Indigenous Knowledge Systems (AIKS) as a paradigm for Africa's renewal and freedom from the whims of foreign interests. These systems, as argued here, involve balancing short-term thinking and immediate gratification with longer-term planning for future generations of Africans and the continent's diaspora. The book will be of interest to anyone concerned with development studies in Africa and its diaspora, as it offers plausible solutions to Africa's chronic developmental problems that can only be provided from within Africa, rather than through the intervention of external third parties. As such, it provides vital contributions to the ongoing search for viable answers to the challenges that Africa faces today.

Author : Mishack T. Gumbo
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1433171147

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Decolonization of Technology Education by Mishack T. Gumbo Pdf

This book provides solutions that address the question: how to decolonize Technology Education.

Author : Tshifhumulo, Rendani,Makhanikhe, Tshimangadzo Justice
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781799874935

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Handbook of Research on Protecting and Managing Global Indigenous Knowledge Systems by Tshifhumulo, Rendani,Makhanikhe, Tshimangadzo Justice Pdf

Indigenous knowledge systems (IKS) are a combination of knowledge systems encompassing technology; social, economic, and philosophical learning; or educational, legal, and governance systems. The lack of documentation of these systems presents a problem as the knowledge is fading away over time. In response, it is essential that policies and strategies are undertaken to ensure that these systems are protected and sustained for generations to come. The Handbook of Research on Protecting and Managing Global Indigenous Knowledge Systems is a comprehensive reference source that works to preserve indigenous knowledge systems through research. Focusing on key concepts such as tools of indigenous knowledge management and African indigenous symbols, the book preserves and promotes indigenous knowledge through research and fills the void staff and students within the field of indigenous knowledge systems face with the current lack of research and resources. This book is ideal for university students, lecturers, researchers, academicians, policymakers, historians, sociologists, and anyone interested in the field of indigenous knowledge systems.

Author : Edward Shizha
Publisher : Springer
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-26
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789462098367

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Remapping Africa in the Global Space by Edward Shizha Pdf

"What are the benefits and risks for Africa’s participation in the globalisation nexus? Remapping Africa in the Global Space is a visionary and interdisciplinary volume that restores Africa’s image using a multidisciplinary lens. It incorporates disciplines such as sociology, education, global studies, economics, development studies, political science and philosophy to explore and theorise Africa’s reality in the global space and to deconstruct the misperceptions and narratives that often infantilise Africa’s internal and international relations. The contributions to this volume are a hybrid of both ‘outsider’ and ‘insider’ perspectives that create a balanced critical discourse that can provide ‘standard’ paradigms that can adequately explain, predict, or prevent Africa’s current misperceptions and myths about the African ‘crisis’ and ‘failure’ status. The authors provide a holistic, and perhaps, anticolonial and anti-hegemonic perspective that can benefit a wide spectrum of academics, scholars, students, development agents, policy makers in both governmental and non-governmental organisations and engage some alternative analyses and possibilities for socio-politico and economic advancement in Africa. The book provides up-to-date scholarly research on continental trends on various subjects and concerns of paramount importance to globalisation and development in Africa. “The book is brilliant! Remapping Africa in the Global Space: Propositions for Change explores Africa from the perspective of academics specialised in subject matters pertaining to the continent. In this age of globalisation, I find this book invaluable. It is a good read as it dissects analyses and presents issues affecting the continent in an articulate and cogent way. I highly recommend its use in academic institutions!” – Magnus Mfoafo-M’Carthy, Assistant Professor, Lyle S. Hallman Faculty of Social Work; Fellow of Tshepo Institute for the Study of Contemporary Africa, Wilfrid Laurier University, Kitchener, Canada “More than anything else, Remapping Africa in the Global Space: Propositions for Change speaks to the complex, multifaceted, and interfused character of the development challenges and prospects of Africa. Indeed, few books have examined contemporary Africa as comprehensively and insightfully as this edited volume; it is widely welcomed in the African academic, scholarly and research arena.” – Joseph Mensah, Professor of Geography, York University, Toronto "

Author : Allucia L. Shokane,Kelly J. Gross
Publisher : AOSIS
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781776341665

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Problematising Local Indigenous Community Research by Allucia L. Shokane,Kelly J. Gross Pdf

This book deliberates on developments related to Knowledge Pathing: Multi-, Inter- and Trans-Disciplining in Social Sciences. The book explores the value of this vexed concept in advancing the course for multi-, inter- and trans-disciplinary perspectives, methodologies, theories and epistemologies of knowledge pathing. The discourse on knowledge pathing remains critical in advancing debates and dialogues in the humanities and social sciences spaces of research and studies. This book makes a significant contribution to the scholarly understanding of indigenous knowledge research by focusing on problematising local indigenous community research from Afro-sensed perspectives. The field of indigenous knowledge research and higher education in Africa is complex. Yet, across the continent, higher education has been the sector to least embrace Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) or regard indigenous science as a legitimate source of inspiration for the development of youth and local communities. Higher education institutions and local indigenous communities should thus generate knowledge and power through research. On the other hand, higher education researchers should use their research processes and skills for cross-beneficiation when engaging local indigenous communities. This book embodies the current discourse on decolonisation and the use of indigenous knowledge in research and is intended for research specialists in the field of indigenous knowledge systems.

Author : Alan Bicker,Johan Pottier,Paul Sillitoe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2003-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134514045

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Participating in Development by Alan Bicker,Johan Pottier,Paul Sillitoe Pdf

First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Munyaradzi Mawere,Samuel Awuah-Nyamekye
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Indigenous peoples
ISBN : OCLC:1290034231

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Between Rhetoric and Reality by Munyaradzi Mawere,Samuel Awuah-Nyamekye Pdf

Since time immemorial, indigenous peoples around the world have developed knowledge systems to ensure their continued survival in their respective territories. These knowledge systems have always been dynamic such that they could meet new challenges. Yet, since the so-called enlightenment period, these knowledges have been supplanted by the Western enlightenment science or colonial science hegemony and arrogance such that in many cases they were relegated to the periphery. Some Euro-centric scholars even viewed indigenous knowledge as superstitious, irrational and anti-development. This erroneous view has, since the colonial period, spread like veld fire to the extent of being internalised by some political elites and Euro-centric academics of Africa and elsewhere. However, for some time now, the potential role that indigenous peoples and their knowledge can play in addressing some of the global problems haunting humanity across the world is increasingly emerging as part of international discourse. This book presents an interesting and insightful discourse on the state and role that indigenous knowledge can play in addressing a tapestry of problems of the world and the challenges connected with the application of indigenous knowledge in enlightenment science-dominated contexts. The book is not only useful to academics and students in the fields of indigenous studies and anthropology, but also those in other fields such as environmental science, social and political ecology, development studies, policy studies, economic history, and African studies.