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Indigenous Knowledge Discourses in Africa: At the Intersection of Culture, Politics, and Information Science

Indigenous Knowledge Discourses in Africa: At the Intersection of Culture, Politics, and Information Science

Mehluli Masuku
Copyright: © 2017 |Pages: 21
ISBN13: 9781522508380|ISBN10: 1522508384|EISBN13: 9781522508397
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0838-0.ch007
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Masuku, Mehluli. "Indigenous Knowledge Discourses in Africa: At the Intersection of Culture, Politics, and Information Science." Handbook of Research on Social, Cultural, and Educational Considerations of Indigenous Knowledge in Developing Countries, edited by Patrick Ngulube, IGI Global, 2017, pp. 116-136. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0838-0.ch007

APA

Masuku, M. (2017). Indigenous Knowledge Discourses in Africa: At the Intersection of Culture, Politics, and Information Science. In P. Ngulube (Ed.), Handbook of Research on Social, Cultural, and Educational Considerations of Indigenous Knowledge in Developing Countries (pp. 116-136). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0838-0.ch007

Chicago

Masuku, Mehluli. "Indigenous Knowledge Discourses in Africa: At the Intersection of Culture, Politics, and Information Science." In Handbook of Research on Social, Cultural, and Educational Considerations of Indigenous Knowledge in Developing Countries, edited by Patrick Ngulube, 116-136. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2017. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0838-0.ch007

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Abstract

Since around the 1980s, the aspect of indigenous knowledge (IK) has attracted the attention of a number of experts, including culturists, politicians and information scientists. This has seen the mushrooming of literature on the subject matter from the afore-mentioned practitioners and specialists, with each discipline witnessing a certain “discourse”. This has also witnessed almost everyone in these disciplines glorifying African IK. Against this background, this chapter discusses the IK discourses in Africa, highlighting some of the significant trends and relationships among practitioners and scholars in the fields of culture, politics and information science that are driven by shared philosophies of IK. This paper is theoretical in nature and draws from the literature on IK to explain and demonstrate what the author calls the “IK discourses and “IK frenzy”, and explains the point of intersection by culturists, politicians and information science practitioners.

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