Manual for Community-led Participatory Action Research
The interactions in this document centred on engaged scholarship and approach using a community-based Participatory Action Research (PAR) process to support the Indigenous people, in their thoughts and words’ towards ‘taking their rightful place in contemporary society. Engaged Scholarship concepts entail the integration of education with community development toward social transformation (Beaulieu, Breton & Brousselle, 2018). This concept postulates that educational outcomes become more meaningful and relevant when scholars direct their energies not solely toward an academic community, but also consider pressing public shared problems (De Lange, 2012; da Cruz, 2018). The emphasis is on commitments and power-sharing through which marginalized voices can be elevated, and this is critical in Africa and Canada wherein, to date, Indigenous people continue to face marginalization and exploitation
Indigenous Knowledge Institutions in Africa
MISSION FOCUS: IIN (Indigenous Information Network (IIN)) is committed to enhancing and maintaining the capacity of indigenous peoples to protect their rights and participate in development. It works with information dissemination and networking, research, socio-economic empowerment, human rights, cultural and environmental conservation, children and youth empowerment, gender mainstreaming and HIV/AIDS and related health problems.
Literature Review on Indigenous Entrepreneurship in Africa
Background: There is no universally agreed definition of Indigenous Peoples, hence, remains an issue of global contestation. However, a preliminary working definition provided by the United Nations Working Group and African Development Bank Group on Indigenous Populations defined Indigenous communities, peoples, and nations as culturally distinct groups whose members are directly descended from the earliest known inhabitants of a particular geographic region and, to some extent, maintain the language and culture of those original peoples (United Nations (UN), 2007; African Development Bank Group, 2016). In other words, Indigenous peoples are inheritors and practitioners of unique cultures. They have unique ways of relating to people and the environment. At present, the Indigenous people form non-dominant sectors of society and are determined to preserve, develop, and transmit to future generations their ancestral territories, and their ethnic identity, as the basis of their continued existence as people, following their cultural patterns, social institutions and legal systems. Similarly, they have retained social, cultural, economic and political characteristics that are distinct from those of the dominant societies in which they live.
Women, Gender, and Representation: Embracing African Indigenous Knowledge System as an Approach to Re-centering Africa
This brief argues that African women are not duly represented in eminist thought due to the elevation of Eurocentric knowledge system that continues to ignore/disregard African experience in knowledge production. The brief proposes an embrace of African Indigenous Knowledge System (AIKS) as a system of knowledge to ensure the recentering of African women in feminist thought and their increased representation in the public realm. Tshishonga (2019) defines
AIKS as a system of knowledge grounded on indigenous knowledge and local knowledge, experiences, cultural and historical heritage of Africa.
Indigenous Youth: A Quest for Reformed Governance Structures for Promoting Batwa Youth Employment in Uganda
This policy brief on Indigenous youth contends that the state system needs to effectively take action to restructure governance organs at diverse levels of society to create Batwa youth employment. […]
Indigenous Knowledge System and Development in Africa: The Imperative of decolonization
There is a network shaped by organized relations between different regions of the world which construct the relationship between knowledge-producers and knowledge consumers: the global knowledge production system. Main actors […]
