Pathways to Alternative Epistemologies in Africa

by Adeshina Afolayan

Book Overview

This volume investigates alternative epistemological pathways by which knowledge production in Africa can proceed. The contributors, using different intellectual dynamics, explore the existing epistemological dominance of the West-from architecture to gender discourse, from environmental management to democratic governance-and offer distinct and unique arguments that challenge the denigration of the different and differing modes of knowing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030606546
• ISBN13: 9783030606541
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"