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Reconstructing a Fractured Indigenous Knowledge System
Anselm Kole Jimoh
orcid.org/0000-0003-1392-4686
; Seminary of Saints Peter and Paul, Department of Philosophy, Bodija Road, P. M. B. 5171, NG-OY 200221 Ibadan
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APA 6th Edition
Jimoh, A.K. (2018). Reconstructing a Fractured Indigenous Knowledge System
. Synthesis philosophica, 33 (1), 5-22. https://doi.org/10.21464/sp33101
MLA 8th Edition
Jimoh, Anselm Kole. "Reconstructing a Fractured Indigenous Knowledge System
." Synthesis philosophica, vol. 33, no. 1, 2018, pp. 5-22. https://doi.org/10.21464/sp33101. Accessed 30 Apr. 2024.
Chicago 17th Edition
Jimoh, Anselm Kole. "Reconstructing a Fractured Indigenous Knowledge System
." Synthesis philosophica 33, no. 1 (2018): 5-22. https://doi.org/10.21464/sp33101
Harvard
Jimoh, A.K. (2018). 'Reconstructing a Fractured Indigenous Knowledge System
', Synthesis philosophica, 33(1), pp. 5-22. https://doi.org/10.21464/sp33101
Vancouver
Jimoh AK. Reconstructing a Fractured Indigenous Knowledge System
. Synthesis philosophica [Internet]. 2018 [cited 2024 April 30];33(1):5-22. https://doi.org/10.21464/sp33101
IEEE
A.K. Jimoh, "Reconstructing a Fractured Indigenous Knowledge System
", Synthesis philosophica, vol.33, no. 1, pp. 5-22, 2018. [Online]. https://doi.org/10.21464/sp33101
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APA 6th Edition
Jimoh, A.K. (2018). Reconstructing a Fractured Indigenous Knowledge System
. Synthesis philosophica, 33 (1), 5-22. https://doi.org/10.21464/sp33101
MLA 8th Edition
Jimoh, Anselm Kole. "Reconstructing a Fractured Indigenous Knowledge System
." Synthesis philosophica, vol. 33, no. 1, 2018, pp. 5-22. https://doi.org/10.21464/sp33101. Accessed 30 Apr. 2024.
Chicago 17th Edition
Jimoh, Anselm Kole. "Reconstructing a Fractured Indigenous Knowledge System
." Synthesis philosophica 33, no. 1 (2018): 5-22. https://doi.org/10.21464/sp33101
Harvard
Jimoh, A.K. (2018). 'Reconstructing a Fractured Indigenous Knowledge System
', Synthesis philosophica, 33(1), pp. 5-22. https://doi.org/10.21464/sp33101
Vancouver
Jimoh AK. Reconstructing a Fractured Indigenous Knowledge System
. Synthesis philosophica [Internet]. 2018 [cited 2024 April 30];33(1):5-22. https://doi.org/10.21464/sp33101
IEEE
A.K. Jimoh, "Reconstructing a Fractured Indigenous Knowledge System
", Synthesis philosophica, vol.33, no. 1, pp. 5-22, 2018. [Online]. https://doi.org/10.21464/sp33101
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APA 6th Edition
Jimoh, A.K. (2018). Reconstructing a Fractured Indigenous Knowledge System
. Synthesis philosophica, 33 (1), 5-22. https://doi.org/10.21464/sp33101
MLA 8th Edition
Jimoh, Anselm Kole. "Reconstructing a Fractured Indigenous Knowledge System
." Synthesis philosophica, vol. 33, no. 1, 2018, pp. 5-22. https://doi.org/10.21464/sp33101. Accessed 30 Apr. 2024.
Chicago 17th Edition
Jimoh, Anselm Kole. "Reconstructing a Fractured Indigenous Knowledge System
." Synthesis philosophica 33, no. 1 (2018): 5-22. https://doi.org/10.21464/sp33101
Harvard
Jimoh, A.K. (2018). 'Reconstructing a Fractured Indigenous Knowledge System
', Synthesis philosophica, 33(1), pp. 5-22. https://doi.org/10.21464/sp33101
Vancouver
Jimoh AK. Reconstructing a Fractured Indigenous Knowledge System
. Synthesis philosophica [Internet]. 2018 [cited 2024 April 30];33(1):5-22. https://doi.org/10.21464/sp33101
IEEE
A.K. Jimoh, "Reconstructing a Fractured Indigenous Knowledge System
", Synthesis philosophica, vol.33, no. 1, pp. 5-22, 2018. [Online]. https://doi.org/10.21464/sp33101
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APA 6th Edition
Jimoh, A.K. (2018). Reconstructing a Fractured Indigenous Knowledge System
. Synthesis philosophica, 33 (1), 5-22. https://doi.org/10.21464/sp33101
MLA 8th Edition
Jimoh, Anselm Kole. "Reconstructing a Fractured Indigenous Knowledge System
." Synthesis philosophica, vol. 33, no. 1, 2018, pp. 5-22. https://doi.org/10.21464/sp33101. Accessed 30 Apr. 2024.
Chicago 17th Edition
Jimoh, Anselm Kole. "Reconstructing a Fractured Indigenous Knowledge System
." Synthesis philosophica 33, no. 1 (2018): 5-22. https://doi.org/10.21464/sp33101
Harvard
Jimoh, A.K. (2018). 'Reconstructing a Fractured Indigenous Knowledge System
', Synthesis philosophica, 33(1), pp. 5-22. https://doi.org/10.21464/sp33101
Vancouver
Jimoh AK. Reconstructing a Fractured Indigenous Knowledge System
. Synthesis philosophica [Internet]. 2018 [cited 2024 April 30];33(1):5-22. https://doi.org/10.21464/sp33101
IEEE
A.K. Jimoh, "Reconstructing a Fractured Indigenous Knowledge System
", Synthesis philosophica, vol.33, no. 1, pp. 5-22, 2018. [Online]. https://doi.org/10.21464/sp33101
Abstract
African colonial experience bequeathed a culture of epistemological silencing of African indigenous epistemology with its monochrome logic of Western epistemology. It systematically devalued African indigenous knowledge systems by presenting African intellectual enterprise as alogical and sometimes primitive. Immediately after the colonial experience, the attempts by some African scholars to establish the depth of African scholarship fractured the African knowledge systems. This is because they attempted to use Western logic and models as paradigms in investigating, interrogating, and evaluating our knowledge practice. In this paper, I argue for the need to reconstruct fractured African indigenous epistemology. I shall present how African indigenous knowledge systems (AIKS), otherwise referred to in the paper as African indigenous epistemology, are distorted and fractured. After that, I shall propose its reconstruction by articulating how we acquire and validate knowledge in African indigenous epistemology. By African indigenous epistemology, I mean a system of investigating, understanding, assimilating, and attributing African conception of reality that is distinctively African and philosophical. To this end, I shall adopt the philosophical methodology of critical analysis, evaluation, and reconstruction to delineate the notions of indigenous knowledge systems (IKS), African indigenous epistemology, the fracturing effect of colonialism, globalisation, and Western framework on African indigenous knowledge systems (AIKS). I conclude that to reconstruct African indigenous epistemology, we have to free it from the grip of Western evaluative paradigms. In this way, it would reflect an authentic African thought pattern that describes a way of knowing that is true to African experience, both the past and present, without necessarily disparaging other ways of knowing.
Keywords
African; indigenous knowledge systems (IKS); African indigenous epistemology; colonialism; philosophical sagacity
Hrčak ID:
219839
URI
https://hrcak.srce.hr/219839
Publication date:
6.11.2018.
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