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The chapter is based on the fact that the history of Africa’s Indigenous ways of knowing and knowledge production did not begin with Westernization process or rather knowledge systems, and as such neither should their future depend exclusively on Western and other worldviews. Like other human societies across the globe, African Indigenous societies have, for centuries, developed their own sets of experiences and explanations relating to the environments they live in. We encapsulate the journey of two African women from two geographical locations and different historical colonial contexts, and yet they have so much in common. Their fate is a deep desire to know of their roots and purpose of being ties them together to influence this work. The purpose of these chapter is encapsulated in this African saying: “A tree that wants to flourish needs to honour the root.” Our root is our ancestral and cultural ways which honor our lives. Further, we focus on the African Indigenous ways of knowing, being, and living by highlighting on the interruption of our Indigenous ways of knowing through slavery and colonization.
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Upiomoh, O.O., Walters, B. (2024). Seeking the African Indigenous Ways of Being in Academia: The Intersecting Journeys of Two Black Women from Different Historical Colonial Experiences—Part One. In: Wane, N.N. (eds) Education, Colonial Sickness. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40262-3_8
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