Indigenous Discourses on Knowledge and Development in Africa

by Edward Shizha

Book Overview

African social development is often explained from outsider perspectives that are mainly European and Euro-American, leaving African indigenous discourses and ways of knowing and doing absent from discussions and debates on knowledge and development. This book is intended to present Africanist indigenous voices in current debates on economic, educational, political and social development in Africa. The authors and contributors to the volume present...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415703360
• ISBN13: 9780415703369
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"