Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Food Security in the History of Hausaland: An Examination of Food Preservation and Storage Practices

2020 ◽  
pp. 247-259
Author(s):  
Umar Muhammad Jabbi
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Indigenous Knowledge ◽  
Food Preservation ◽  
Knowledge Systems ◽  
Indigenous Knowledge Systems ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Storage

scholarly journals Implications of a technoscientific culture on personhood in Africa and in the West

2005 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cornel Du Toit
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Systems ◽  
Community Life ◽  
The West ◽  
History Of Development ◽  
Indigenous Knowledge Systems ◽  
History Of ◽  
African Community ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Rich History

This paper endeavours to converge on present-day experiences of self. This is done against the backdrop of the interdependence between person (organism) and environment (physical and cultural). The rich history of development of personhood in the West is discussed with reference to the metaphor of mask for personhood. Cultural epochs are described as phonocentric (in front of the mask), logocentric (behind the mask) and virtuocentric (between non-present masks). The history of modernism led to the experience of the end of personhood in the West. The restoration of personhood (subjectivity) seems possible through the restoration of some form of communitarianism. This brings Africa in focus. In an enigmatic way Africa knows science and utilises technology, but simultaneously relativises it in favour of traditional customs which the Western mind may judge to be mythological and primitive. African personhood is discussed with reference to African science in the format of Indigenous knowledge systems, to African community life as ubuntu, and to the place of seriti in African metaphysics.

scholarly journals New Research Perspectives on Native American Students in Higher Education

JCSCORE ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-80
Author(s):  
Stephanie J. Waterman
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Native American ◽  
Indigenous Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Systems ◽  
Indigenous Methodology ◽  
Native American Students ◽  
Research Perspectives ◽  
Indigenous Knowledge Systems ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Research

This chapter begins with a brief history of higher education’s role in assimilation, oppression, and removal of Indigenous people. A short literature review outlines the progression of higher education literature from deficit focused ideologies to current research that decolonizes and centers of Indigenous Knowledge Systems. “Sharing circles” as an Indigenous methodology is described. Centering Indigenous experiences in higher education and Indigenous knowledge systems focus on ways that Western forms of education can be used as tools to strengthen Native nations.

scholarly journals Sites and objects, indigenous library and the history of Laimbwe, Cameroon

Afrika Focus ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry Kam Kah
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Knowledge ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Knowledge Systems ◽  
Indigenous Knowledge Systems ◽  
Historical Objects ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Indigenous Methods ◽  
Rich History

This study focuses on the construction of the history of the Laimbwe people of Cameroon through indigenous methods of enquiry and/or epistemologies. These include analyses of surviving historical objects, sites and artefacts from the pre-colonial period to the reunfication of British Southern Cameroons with the Cameroun Republic in 1961. Some traditional items of the Laimbwe people of Cameroon and existing artefacts as well as sites reveal a very rich history with information that Western and conventional research have not vividly captured. In this paper, we reflect on the salience of these sources in understanding the rich socio-cultural and political history of the Laimbwe. There is a need to document this as an indigenous African library in this age of globali- sation so that indigenous knowledge systems are disseminated to a wider academic audience. A construction of Laimbwe history through these indigenous forms of the library present them as new perspectives of local epistemologies beyond the capture of the western library introduced into Africa during the colonial period and even before. It continues to shape the way African national and local histories are written based on Western interpretations and or epistemologies. Key words: sites, objects, history, Laimbwe, Cameroon 

scholarly journals Use of Indigenous Knowledge Systems in Crop and Livestock Production and Implication to Social Ecology: A Case Study of Chimanimani District of Zimbabwe

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pindai Sithole
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Food Security ◽  
Indigenous Knowledge ◽  
Local Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Systems ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Community Food Security ◽  
Indigenous Knowledge Systems ◽  
Indigenous Trees

This study explored the indigenous knowledge systems (IKS) in the Chimanimani District of Zimbabwe and how they are used in crop management and grain storage. Also examined were the effects of IKS use on community food security and integrity of the environment. A qualitative interpretative research design was employed through the use of detailed in-depth interviews and focus group discussions with traditional leaders and community elders. The choice for these groups of people was informed by the general belief that they are often regarded in the community as a reservoir of indigenous knowledge systems. Phenomenological underpinnings anchored the study because it was vital to bring to the fore the various related IKS phenomena and links to food security and environmental management in the community. A socio-ecological lens was used to establish links and interrelations of factors that contribute to food security and environmental management. Major findings include that ashes and leaves from some indigenous trees are used to enrich soil quality, preserve food, and treat livestock. In addition, ashes and leaves are applied as organic pesticides for a variety of crops grown in the district. The study established that these local knowledge systems and practices contribute to low farming costs, high crop yields and good environmental management. The indigenous trees used for this purpose are held in high regard and conserved through the practice and enforcement of socio-spiritual prohibitions like taboos. The study concluded that the body of local knowledge firmly rooted in the Chimanimani people’s culture and traditions is relevant to and consistent with the national and global agenda towards strengthening and sustaining community food security and environmental management. Furthermore, the local knowledge systems found in this study have policy implications for environmental management and climate change strategies as well as knowledge management from a socio-ecological perspective.Keywords: indigenous knowledge management systems, environmental management, food security

A Decolonial Curriculum Is Everything

2021 ◽  
pp. 59-81
Author(s):  
Zingisa Nkosinkulu
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Knowledge ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
Scientific Explanation ◽  
Knowledge System ◽  
Knowledge Systems ◽  
Indigenous Knowledge Systems ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

This chapter seeks to map how indigenous people and their indigenous knowledge systems are the most researched and written about in the world, yet they are the least understood. The curriculum of the empire and its scientific explanation justified how indigenous knowledge systems should be approached and viewed as well as who has the authority to justify; hence, indigenous knowledge systems were justified as inferior and not worthy of the standard of European knowledge system. In this chapter, Frantz Fanon's thought will be deployed to illustrate how this division of knowledge justifies the perpetuating dehumanisation of indigenous people under the mask of modernisation and globalisation. By deploying decoloniality, Afrocentricity, and Fanonian thought, this chapter seeks to challenge this curriculum that is based on the history of the conquest of Africa that positioned Africa only as a cradle of slaves and the black bodied as created by God only for the benefit of the Europeans.

scholarly journals Sites and objects, indigenous library and the history of Laimbwe, Cameroon

Afrika Focus ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-73
Author(s):  
Henry Kam Kah
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Knowledge ◽  
Political History ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Knowledge Systems ◽  
Indigenous Knowledge Systems ◽  
Historical Objects ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Indigenous Methods ◽  
Rich History

This study focuses on the construction of the history of the Laimbwe people of Cameroon through indigenous methods of enquiry and/or epistemologies. These include analyses of surviving historical objects, sites and artefacts from the pre-colonial period to the reunification of British Southern Cameroons with the Cameroun Republic in 1961. Some traditional items of the Laimbwe people of Cameroon and existing artefacts as well as sites reveal a very rich history with information that Western and conventional research have not vividly captured. In this paper, we reflect on the salience of these sources in understanding the rich socio-cultural and political history of the Laimbwe. There is a need to document this as an indigenous African library in this age of globalisation so that indigenous knowledge systems are disseminated to a wider academic audience. A construction of Laimbwe history through these indigenous forms of the library present them as new perspectives of local epistemologies beyond the capture of the western library introduced into Africa during the colonial period and even before. It continues to shape the way African national and local histories are written based on Western interpretations and or epistemologies.

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