Struggle of African indigenous knowledge systems in an age of globalization : a case for children's traditional games in South-Eastern Zimbabwe /

This is a comprehensive study and erudite description of the struggle of African Indigenous Knowledge Systems in an Age of Globalization, using in particular eighty-four children's traditional games in south-eastern Zimbabwe. The book is an informative and interesting anthropological account of...

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Main Author: Mawere, Munyaradzi
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bamenda, Cameroon : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG ; [2012]
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:This is a comprehensive study and erudite description of the struggle of African Indigenous Knowledge Systems in an Age of Globalization, using in particular eighty-four children's traditional games in south-eastern Zimbabwe. The book is an informative and interesting anthropological account of rare African children's games at the risk of disappearing under globalization. The virtue of the book does not only lie in its modest philosophical questioning of those knowledge forms that consider themselves as superior to others, but in its laudable, healthy appreciation of the creative art forms of traditional literature that features in genres such as endangered children's traditional games. The book is a clarion call to Africans and the world beyond to come to the rescue of relegated and marginalized African creativity in the interest of future generations.
Item Description:Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (1 electronic text (viii, 146 pages) :) : digital fil
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9789956728022