By Njoki Nathani-Wane
ISBN-10: 1442648147
ISBN-13: 9781442648142
Among the agricultural Embu humans of jap Kenya, instructing and studying usually are not only institutional actions. as a substitute, wisdom is handed from new release to new release along the main mundane actions. In Indigenous African wisdom Production, Njoki Nathani Wane makes use of food-processing practices – getting ready, protecting, cooking, and serving – as an access element into the indigenous wisdom of the Embu and the function that rural Embu ladies play in growing and transmitting it.
Using own narratives gathered in the course of numerous years of box examine in Kenya, Wane demonstrates how Embu girls use proverbs, fables, and folktales to maintain and converse their world-view, wisdom, and cultural norms. She exhibits how this procedure preserves Indigenous wisdom devalued via the colonial and post-colonial academic platforms, in addition to the gendered measurement of the transmission process.
Wane’s e-book may be necessary not only to these learning improvement and schooling in Africa, but in addition to all these drawn to questions of the way to maintain and get well neighborhood cultural knowledge.
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Indigenous African Knowledge Production: Food-Processing Practices among Kenyan Rural Women by Njoki Nathani-Wane
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