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Nature touts indigenous knowledge as coequal to “Western” (aka “modern”) science

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One of the areas that Luana Maroja and I highlighted in our “Ideological Subversion of Biology” article, which analyzed six misguided statements about biology made in the service of ideology rather than scientific truth, was the last one: 6. Indigenous “ways of knowing” are equivalent to modern science and should be respected and taught as such. Now both of us believe that indigenous people can produce and have produced knowledge, even though it…

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Advance your research: Apply for CODESRIA’s indigenous knowledge fellowship - Prime Progress NG

By Nneka Nwogwugwu The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) is inviting proposals for its African Fellowships for Research in Indigenous and Alternative Knowledges. This programme seeks to implement an innovative approach to training a new generation of young people to design research projects and produce knowledge as a partnership between academic mentors on the one hand and bearers of Indigenous knowledg…

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