Science And Technology In Africa
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Author | : Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2017-06-16 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 0262533901 |
Explorations of science, technology, and innovation in Africa not as the product of “technology transfer” from elsewhere but as the working of African knowledge. In the STI literature, Africa has often been regarded as a recipient of science, technology, and innovation rather than a maker of them. In this book, scholars from a range of disciplines show that STI in Africa is not merely the product of “technology transfer” from elsewhere but the working of African knowledge. Their contributions focus on African ways of looking, meaning-making, and creating. The chapter authors see Africans as intellectual agents whose perspectives constitute authoritative knowledge and whose strategic deployment of both endogenous and inbound things represents an African-centered notion of STI. “Things do not (always) mean the same from everywhere,” observes Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga, the volume's editor. Western, colonialist definitions of STI are not universalizable. The contributors discuss topics that include the trivialization of indigenous knowledge under colonialism; the creative labor of chimurenga, the transformation of everyday surroundings into military infrastructure; the role of enslaved Africans in America as innovators and synthesizers; the African ethos of “fixing”; the constitutive appropriation that makes mobile technologies African; and an African innovation strategy that builds on domestic capacities. The contributions describe an Africa that is creative, technological, and scientific, showing that African STI is the latest iteration of a long process of accumulative, multicultural knowledge production. Contributors Geri Augusto, Shadreck Chirikure, Chux Daniels, Ron Eglash, Ellen Foster, Garrick E. Louis, D. A. Masolo, Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga, Neda Nazemi, Toluwalogo Odumosu, Katrien Pype, Scott Remer
Author | : Paul Tiyambe Zeleza |
Publisher | : Africa World Press |
Total Pages | : 644 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9781592211128 |
Having grappled with the question of modernisation for a long time, Africa now faces an issue that, with an increasingly knowledge-based global economy, has only become more urgent in this new millennium. This volume examines Africa's scientific and technological literacy, production and consumption, focusing in detail on the constraints and challenges, opportunities and developments, and the strategies required to promote the advancement of IT and biotechnology in Africa, to help advance our understanding of science and technology developments in Africa.
Author | : John W. Forje |
Publisher | : Longman Publishing Group |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
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Author | : Gloria Emeagwali |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2016-07-08 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9463005153 |
This book is an intellectual journey into epistemology, pedagogy, physics, architecture, medicine and metallurgy. The focus is on various dimensions of African Indigenous Knowledge (AIK) with an emphasis on the sciences, an area that has been neglected in AIK discourse. The authors provide diverse views and perspectives on African indigenous scientific and technological knowledge that can benefit a wide spectrum of academics, scholars, students, development agents, and policy makers, in both governmental and non-governmental organizations, and enable critical and alternative analyses and possibilities for understanding science and technology in an African historical and contemporary context.
Author | : Muchie Mammo |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2012-03-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781909112094 |
Author | : Commonwealth Secretariat |
Publisher | : Commonwealth Secretariat |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780850927429 |
Through country case studies centred around Sub-Saharan Africa; this book provides critical insights into why science and technology should be popularised; what and whose science and technology systems should be introduced and promoted; and how science and technology should be implemented and practised.
Author | : Jeggan Colley Senghor |
Publisher | : Africa World Press |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780865439139 |
Author | : Klaus Gottstein |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Africa, Sub-Saharan |
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Author | : South Africa. Department of Science and Technology |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Science |
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Author | : Catherine Beaudry |
Publisher | : African Books Collective |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2018-11-23 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1928331947 |
Young scientists are a powerful resource for change and sustainable development, as they drive innovation and knowledge creation. However, comparable findings on young scientists in various countries, especially in Africa and developing regions, are generally sparse. Therefore, empirical knowledge on the state of early-career scientists is critical in order to address current challenges faced by those scientists in Africa. This book reports on the main findings of a three-and-a-half-year international project in order to assist its readers in better understanding the African research system in general, and more specifically its young scientists. The first part of the book provides background on the state of science in Africa, and bibliometric findings concerning Africas scientific production and networks, for the period 2005 to 2015. The second part of the book combines the findings of a large-scale, quantitative survey and more than 200 qualitative interviews to provide a detailed profile of young scientists and the barriers they face in terms of five aspects of their careers: research output; funding; mobility; collaboration; and mentoring. In each case, field and gender differences are also taken into account. The last part of the book comprises conclusions and recommendations to relevant policy- and decision-makers on desirable changes to current research systems in Africa.