Highlights the need for syncretic knowledge systems which include knowledges, knowledge producers, and the intelligensia of the southern regions to be accepted as equals with those of the North.
AFRICAN AFFAIRS
[This volume] should point the way for equity and inclusion in the context of seeing Africa-centered research and products on equal footing with Euro-centric and Afro-centric paradigms. ... Read more
AFRICAN & ASIAN STUDIES
The book thus contains a huge diversity of subject matter, which is drawn together by a common interrogation of dominant ways of knowing and a quest for holding open alternatives. . . . It is a book to be recommended to any reader interested in moving beyond the tired binaries of 'western' versus 'indigenous' knowledge.
AFRICAN STUDIES QUARTERLY
Contains a rich assembly of ideas and observations.
ANTIPODE
The book contains many valuable thoughts and quotable statements, including a note that Hegel believed that the great historical dialectic bypassed Africa altogether, as well as insights about the relation between epistemology and method, the freeing and inhibiting qualities of classification systems, and the potential danger of knowing.
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highlights the need for syncretic knowledge systems which include knowledges, knowledge producers, and the intelligensia of the southern regions to be accepted as equals wiht those of the North.
AFRICAN AFFAIRS
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