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Like the rest of the world, Africa has her own knowledge system that sustained her people for centuries prior to colonialization. While Africa has benefited greatly from the Western Knowledge system, adopting it as a knowledge system to salvage the unwanted environmental situations either as an alternative or a collaborative knowledge system should not be tagged abominable. Although juxtaposing African indigenous Knowledge with the Western system might be challenging, especially as the former has suffered severe opposition from the latter. Nevertheless, African indigenous Knowledge is a trans-generational knowledge that has been deployed for centuries by the indigenous people of Africa. It is a knowledge system that is enshrined in the boundaries of the people’s culture and exercised with dexterity, wisdom, conservation and preservation, and sustainability and environmental harmony as its hallmark.
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Ayeni, A.O., Aborisade, A.G. (2022). African Indigenous Knowledge Systems and the World. In: Oloruntoba, S.O., Falola, T. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Africa and the Changing Global Order. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77481-3_8
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