Indigenous Systems and Africa's Development
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- ISBN 9780798305341
- Weight: 500g
- Publication Date: 21 Jun 2021
- Publisher: Africa Institute of South Africa
- Publication City/Country: ZA
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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The role of indigenous knowledges in development has not been examined enough. Indigenous knowledge systems tend to mean different things to different people, so does culture. Culture is undoubtedly critical for development but often underplayed or misunderstood. Development in Africa remains elusive.
Those who are supposed to benefit from interventions aimed at improving wellbeing are often not involved in decision making regarding those interventions. Indigenous knowledges, cultures and indigenous languages are usually ignored when conceiving policies aimed at advancing development. This book – a collection of chapters on these issues – demonstrates the importance of indigenous knowledge systems in development.
Indigenous knowledges play a role in development practice because of their capacity to generate transferable local skills and set energies in motion to reduce the prevailing inequalities on the continent. In an effort to resolve the enduring puzzle of development in Africa, the role of indigenous knowledges is thus affirmed as important.
The book advocates for a paradigm shift in development thinking and practice that reinforces the use of indigenous knowledges as a first line of action in the process of development in Africa. In shaping the future development agenda for Africa, it is vital to integrate indigenous knowledges in the development process. It must be recognised that for the continent to meet its development challenges, especially the eradication of poverty, integration of indigenous knowledge is crucial.
It is therefore important that indigenous knowledge systems are given space to play a role in peoples’ lives to ensure that development takes place on the African continent. It is encouraging that scholars are giving these issues due attention.
Vusu Gumede is professor in the Faculty of Economics, Development, and Business Sciences at the University of Mpumalanga.
Mammo Muchie is DST-NRF research chair in innovation studies in the Faculty of Management Sciences at Tshwane University of Technology.
Ajebush Shafi is a research and innovation consultant at Tshwane University of Technology
Mammo Muchie is DST-NRF research chair in innovation studies in the Faculty of Management Sciences at Tshwane University of Technology.
Ajebush Shafi is a research and innovation consultant at Tshwane University of Technology
