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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"African epistemology"”.
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She ain't no mammy: African American midwives' utilization of Ma'at in the preservation and continuation of African epistemology
… approach, examining the African American midwife from her forced placement on Southern plantations in the United States to the present day. These midwives were gatekeepers of a rich cultural tradition grounded in an African matriarchal episteme. There is a long history of …
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Bringing the shadow out: a first-person inquiry on wholeness explored through the (un) silenced narratives of a Kenyan woman working in multinational organisations
… a perspective on action inquiry informed by an African epistemology of Utu. It reveals the invisible work done to be in relation with others while negotiating subtle power relations, constructions of gender, the multi-layered politics of difference and identity within organisations, and the …
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South African art history: the possibility of decolonising a discourse
… of recent calls to decolonise curricula at South African universities there has been a renewed interest in what decolonisation might specifically imply for particular academic disciplines. Art history in South Africa has long struggled to move away from its settler colonial origins towards a more …
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Community-based co-design of a crowdsourcing task management application for safeguarding indigenous knowledge
Teaching indigenous knowledge (IK) to African youth has become more complicated due to a variety of reasons such as urban migration, loss of interest in it, the dominance of scientific knowledge and the technological revolution. Therefore, there is a considerable movement towards using technologies …