The phrase "african knowledge" is correct in terms of grammar but may require capitalization as "African knowledge" for proper usage in written English.
You can use it when discussing knowledge, traditions, or wisdom that originates from the African continent or its cultures.
Example: "The conference will focus on African knowledge and its impact on global education systems."
Alternatives: "knowledge from Africa" or "African wisdom".
This won't be the case for much longer – the numbers of Bangladeshi and north African Knowledge Boys are rising fast.
His ambition is to theorize the scientific and technological basis for indigenous African knowledge and its trajectory before, during and after the European colonial moment.
How the presence of the tsetse fly turned the African forest into an open laboratory where African knowledge formed the basis of colonial tsetse control policies.
At the University of Michigan, Mavhunga realized that he could "make a career of asking questions". He began to focus on analyzing how African knowledge and knowledge from other sources (Arabic, Asian, western & Latin American) have shaped one another.
In The Mobile Workshop, Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga examines how the presence of the tsetse fly turned the forests of Zimbabwe and southern Africa into an open laboratory where African knowledge formed the basis of colonial tsetse control policies.
The first, 'AFRICAN COSMOS: STELLAR ARTS' (National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution and the Monacelli Press, $60), comes with a show on view through Dec. 9 at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art in Washington, about the centuries-old African knowledge of the Sun, Moon, stars and other heavenly spheres and their intimate connection to human life.
Interestingly, observed levels of Southern Africans' knowledge of sexual risks differ relatively little based on measurement approach.
However, in some African countries knowledge gaps exist on the effectiveness of hermetic maize storage, particularly where the Larger Grain Borer (LGB), Prostephanus truncatus occurs.
They are reluctant at first, but after encouragement to think about the first words or phrases that come to mind, they share stereotypes about African people, knowledge of crops such as cotton and rice, and the names of enslaved people such as Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass.
In addition to highlighting the robustness of African scientific knowledge and its place in the matrix of European solutions to the tsetse fly, Mavhunga's book extensively deploys rich indigenous vocabularies, of vedzimbahwe and others across southern and eastern Africa, to help reconstruct this historical episode through the minds and languages of Africans.
While this chapter is based on African case knowledge, many of the ideas are more broadly relevant.
