Indigenous African Knowledge Production

Indigenous African Knowledge Production
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Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Total Pages : 142
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ISBN-10 : 9781442648142
ISBN-13 : 1442648147
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Download or read book Indigenous African Knowledge Production written by Njoki Nathani Wane and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using personal narratives collected during several years of field research in Kenya, Wane demonstrates how Embu women use proverbs, fables, and folktales to preserve and communicate their world-view, knowledge, and cultural norms. She shows how this process preserves Indigenous knowledge devalued by the colonial and post-colonial educational systems, as well as the gendered dimension of the transmission process.


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