Is there a distinctively African way of knowing (a study of African blacksmiths, hunters, healers, griots, elders, and artists): knowing and theory of knowledge in the African experience

Lewiston: The Edwin Mellen Press (2014)
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This work investigates knowledge systems intrinsic to African civilizations to ascertain ways in which those systems can help validate or invalidate the argument pertaining to the existence of an African epistemology. This approach calls for a paradigm shift in conceptualizing and researching African epistemology free from Eurocentric and Afrocentric biases.

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