Critical Indigenous African Education and Knowledge

Abstract

of indigenous African education and knowledge in contemporary society, and thus: calls for critical discourse regarding its utility; suggest that indigenous African theoretical and philosophical discussion should consider an Afrocentric focus; discuss how indigenous African education and knowledge and how it should work to resurrect itself from invisibility in the history of education; there is a need for a critical corrective theory in African education; acknowledge that education and knowledge existed in Africa before Islamic or Western schooling; the story of indigenous and modern African education and knowledge should not remain dormant in untrue assumptions; provides examples of the usefulness of indigenous knowledge via Nigeria (Opata 1998); suggest that there is a need for new lines of communication between schooling and indigenous education; examines via Semali (1999) the distinctions between indigenous African knowledge and other forms of knowledge and the obstacles to its implementation; review the question of African writing history; wherein misconception prevails that Africa was not familiar with literature and art before contact with the Western world; list the many scripts in Africa as examples of a literary tradition; acknowledge that in the arena of science and technology historically and presently, Africa is

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