Afrocentricity, African Agency and Knowledge System

In Adeshina Afolayan (ed.), Pathways to Alternative Epistemologies in Africa. Palgrave-Macmillan. pp. 77-90 (2021)
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This chapter examines the discourse on the politics of epistemological production and validation while situating the African agency at the centre place. It analyses the trajectory of sustained epistemological tyranny on the African space vis-a-vis its attendant theoretical and philosophical rejoinder termed Afrocentricity. It also x-rays the argumentations on the plausibility of the idea of African indigenous knowledge systems. It concludes by drawing a nexus between the postulations of Afrocentric scholars and the proponents of AIKS.

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