How to use an ubuntu qualitative research framework to explore African indigenous knowledge systems /
Much academic research has been centered on Western theories and methodologies for a long time. As a result, research from an African perspective involving indigenous people about their knowledge in their communities has remained largely Western dominated. This is a legacy of Western colonialism in...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
SAGE Publications Ltd,
2024.
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| Series: | SAGE Research methods: diversifying and decolonizing research.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Much academic research has been centered on Western theories and methodologies for a long time. As a result, research from an African perspective involving indigenous people about their knowledge in their communities has remained largely Western dominated. This is a legacy of Western colonialism in Africa. Western colonialism introduced Western ways of research, knowledge systems, and culture on Africa. It marginalized and eroded African heritages-cultures, languages, and knowledge as well as political, economic, social, and technological developments. In other words, research and other fields became and have remained colonized. Using an African philosophy of Ubuntu as a research paradigm is one way of decolonizing research in Africa. Researchers can develop, adopt, or adapt numerous methodologies located in an Ubuntu paradigm suitable to the research locale or context. This guide unpacks an Ubuntu qualitative research process. The approach allows researchers to blend Western and indigenous qualitative research aspects in ways that redress marginalization of indigenous culture, knowledge, and language as well as ethical protocols. This guide offers an Ubuntu qualitative research framework to investigate indigenous phenomena in local communities with indigenous Africans from an Afrocentric perspective. By so doing, this kind of research will not only become relevant to African communities but also have a significant decolonizing impact on research, indigenous knowledge systems, and communities. While the guide focuses on African communities, Ubuntu qualitative research can also be applied and be beneficial to other indigenous contexts. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource : illustrations. |
| ISBN: | 9781529692402 1529692407 |