African Indigenous Knowledge System and Environmental Sustainability
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African indigenous knowledge and research
This paper seeks to heighten awareness about the need to include indigenous knowledge in the design and implementation of research, particularly disability research, in Africa. It affirms the suitability of the Afrocentric paradigm in African research and argues the necessity for an emancipatory and participatory type of research which values and includes indigenous knowledge and peoples. In th...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Environmental Protection and Policy
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2330-7528
DOI: 10.11648/j.ijepp.20150304.12