Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Gloria Emeagwali and Edward Shizha -- Interconnecting History, African Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Science / Gloria Emeagwali and Edward Shizha -- Pedagogical Principles in Technology Education / Mishack T. Gumbo -- Schooling and the African Child / Yovita Gwekwerere -- African Indigenous Perspectives on Technology / Edward Shizha -- Time / Vongai Mpofu -- Interrogating the Concept of Time among the Shona / Francis Muchenje , Ruth Barbra Gora and Ngoni Makuvaza -- Indigenous Physics and the Academy / Mathias Sithole -- Tiv Divination / Atah Pine -- The Stellar Knowledge of Indigenous South Africans / Peter G. Alcock -- Nigerian Walls and Earthworks / Patrick Darling -- Enclosures of the Old Oyo Empire, Nigeria / David A. Aremu -- Enclosures of Northern Yorubaland, Nigeria / Aribidesi Usman -- African Traditional Medicine Revisited / Gloria Emeagwali -- Ethnomusicologists and Medical Practitioners in Healthcare Delivery in Nigeria / Charles O. Aluede and Vincent Aiwuyo -- Using Indigenous Narrative Therapy with People of the African Diaspora / Evadne E. Ngazimbi -- Iron Metallurgy in Ancient Sudan / Jay Spaulding -- Iron-Smelting in Nigeria / Patrick Darling -- About the Contributors / Gloria Emeagwali and Edward Shizha.

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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.