The event is the Methodology Workshop on African Indigenous Knowledge and Entrepreneurship held at the Crown Plaza Hotel, Nairobi, Kenya from May 10-11. 2024. It was organized by the Africa Indigenous Knowledge Research Network, Institute of African Studies, Carleton University. The Workshop brought together members of the Network from Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and from the diaspora, Canada and United States of America. The workshop was organized to co-create a community led methodological approaches for conducting research in Indigenous communities in Africa.
Apart from two sessions facilitated by two experts on African Indigenous knowledge and research methodologies, Professors Mary Setrana of University of Ghana and Chika Esiobu- Ezeanya of Soka America University, there were various group sessions where research working groups deliberated on the best practices that can adopted when conducting research in their communities. The participants agreed and advocated for the voices of the communities to be heard and their subjectivity reinforced. The participants also made inputs to the proposal for a longer longitudinal study that is being planned around the ecosystem of Indigenous knowledge and sustainable livelihoods in Africa. We thank our partners, the Mastercard Foundation for their support.
The Africa Indigenous Knowledge Research Network was created to undertake research geared towards identifying, re-centering and harnessing Indigenous knowledge in Africa. It is aimed at foregrounding the authenticity of African Indigenous knowledge through co-creation…
