Culture, Technology and Human Development in Africa
Author | : Adeyemi Johnson Ademowo |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 37 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Africa |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Adeyemi Johnson Ademowo |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 37 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Africa |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Adeyemi Johnson Ademowo |
Publisher | : LAP Lambert Academic Publishing |
Total Pages | : 60 |
Release | : 2012-04 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9783845474939 |
Culture is a vexed issue in anthropological discourse, most importantly among African studies scholars. Hence, there is no agreement on what should constitute or be referred to as 'African Culture'. In this work, the author continues the debate on the definition, nature and role of 'Culture' in the quest for techno-scientific development in Africa. He argues, persuasively, the implication of cultural renewal for human development and how this could rub off positively on technological development in Africa.
Author | : Klaus Gottstein |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Africa, Sub-Saharan |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Mawere, Munyaradzi |
Publisher | : Langaa RPCIG |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 2014-03-16 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9956791911 |
The continent of Africa is richly endowed with diverse cultures, a body of indigenous knowledge and technologies. These bodies of knowledge and technologies that are indeed embodied in the diverse African cultures are as old as humankind. From time immemorial, they have been used to solve socio-economic, political, health, and environmental problems, and to respond to the development needs of Africans. Yet with the advent of colonialism and Western scientism, these African cultures, knowledges, and technologies have been despised and relegated to the periphery, to the detriment of the self-reliant development of Africans. It is out of this observation and realisation that this book was born. The book is an exploration of the practical problems resulting from Africa's encounter with Euro-colonialism, a reflection of the nexus between indigenous knowledge, culture, and development, and indeed a call for the revival and reinstitution of indigenous knowledge, not as a challenge to Western science, but a complementary form of knowledge necessary to steer and promote sustainable development in Africa and beyond. This is a valuable book for policy makers, institutional planners, practitioners and students of social anthropology, education, political and social ecology, and development, African and heritage studies.
Author | : A. Bame Nsamenang |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : |
The core objective of this book is to explore, with the aim of stimulating awareness and illuminating the extent to which Africa is equipping her next generations with responsible values and the right techno-cognitive orientation to cope with and make progress in a competitive, knowledge-driven world in continuous transition. The focal issue revolves on the strategy Africa can adopt to raise children to be African in the light of global trends and requirements. Of course, African children cannot be anything else, but African. Given today's masked hegemonies, can Africa 'be allowed' to develop in its own terms? Can Africans even notice covert hegemonies and pretensions of mutual collaboration? Thus, the book is prepared from awareness that understanding African life journeys and developmental pathways and educational praxis and needs constitute essential foreknowledge for future prospects and progress. The book attempts to enrich the fields of psychology, education, development work and cultural studies with alternative lines and models of theorisation and reinterpretation of existing evidence.
Author | : G. Kẽdrebéogo |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Africa |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Achim Gutowski |
Publisher | : LIT Verlag Münster |
Total Pages | : 584 |
Release | : 2020-04 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 3643911734 |
The volume analyses major strategic and policy issues. How to make Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) Policies relevant for inclusive growth strategies in Africa so that socio-economic transformation strategies will take off. The first part discusses the issues of human skills development as part of STI policies, based on visions, strategic plans and country cases (for Cameroon, Nigeria and Mauritania). The second part looks at STI Policies for Economic Transformation, focussing on country case studies (for Egypt and Tunisia). A third part presents book reviews and book notes.
Author | : S. Strijbos |
Publisher | : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 2012-02-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 192038328X |
The idea for this book has been born in a dialogue between the authors of In Search of an Integrative Vision for Technology (2006) and a group of scholars and practitioners from South Africa whose research and development activities focuses on problems of traditional African society and culture. Although there existed awareness in the writing of the earlier book that the search for normativity for our technological society should encompass the different cultural spheres of the world, no attention has been paid to the problem of interculturality. Focussing on the development of technology in the ?developed societies? the emphasis was laid on finding a basis for ?interdisciplinarity?, bridging the gaps between the sciences and humanities as well as between theory and practice. According to the vision that has been elaborated on in the above book, not the autonomous dynamics of technology as a free-flying projectile should determine the future of our global world, but guidance has to be provided by a normative perspective on technology for the ?common good? of all people and cultures. Following further this line of research the current book aims to address explicitly the ?intercultural? dimension of technology in our globalising world.
Author | : Yamikani Ndasauka |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 3031629795 |
Author | : Clement A Ogunlade |
Publisher | : Reamsworth Publishing |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2021-01-04 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9789789818815 |
This book is a multidisciplinary exposition of how scholars from various disciplines research food. The chapters unravel the crosscutting themes in the role of food in everyday realities of African societies. Food remains indispensable to humanity for a good healthy and quality life but accessibility is shrouded by poor quality food and food fraud thereby making the available food unsafe for consumption by the Nigerian citizens, and of course by people around the world. The underlying causes of this have largely been attributed to poverty and acquisitive economic gains, and to some extent poor food handling by consumers. In Nigeria, the state of poverty is so severe that the largest proportion of the citizens' daily and/or monthly income goes on food, which is barely enough to access quality and nutritional food. Consequently, majority of the citizens seek and take up poor quality food that might come their way. In the light of drive for unsafe food, the food fraudsters had capitalised on the poor Nigerians to make illegally adulterated and poor quality food available at cheaper prices. This situation has not only endangered the food distribution system and quality of consumed nutrition in Nigeria, but as equally put the health status of Nigerians at risk through long-term exposure and build-up of chronically toxic contaminants in the body.