Indigenous African Knowledge Production : Food-Processing Practices among Kenyan Rural Women

Njoki Nathani-Wane

ISBN 10: 1442648147 / ISBN 13: 9781442648142

Published by University Of Toronto Press Mai 2014, 2014

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Neuware - Among the rural Embu people of Eastern Kenya, teaching and learning are not purely institutional activities. Instead, knowledge is passed from generation to generation alongside the most mundane activities. In Indigenous African Knowledge Production, Njoki Nathani Wane uses food-processing practices preparing, preserving, cooking, and serving as an entry point into the indigenous knowledge of the Embu and the role that rural Embu women play in creating and transmitting it.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Indigenous African Knowledge Production : Food-Processing Practices among Kenyan Rural Women
• Publisher: University Of Toronto Press Mai 2014
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1442648147
• ISBN 13: 9781442648142
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 236W x 159H x 17D millimeters 236 millimeters width by 159 millimeters height by 17 millimeters depth
• Weight: 363 grams

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Synopsis

Among the rural Embu people of Eastern Kenya, teaching and learning are not purely institutional activities. Instead, knowledge is passed from generation to generation alongside the most mundane activities. In Indigenous African Knowledge Production, Njoki Nathani Wane uses food-processing practices - preparing, preserving, cooking, and serving - as an entry point into the indigenous knowledge of the Embu and the role that rural Embu women play in creating and transmitting it.

Using personal narratives collected during several years of field research in Kenya, Wane demonstrates how Embu women use proverbs, fables, and folktales to preserve and communicate their world-view, knowledge, and cultural norms. She shows how this process preserves Indigenous knowledge devalued by the colonial and post-colonial educational systems, as well as the gendered dimension of the transmission process.

Wane's book will be useful not just to those studying development and education in Africa, but also to all those interested in questions of how to preserve and recover local cultural knowledge.

About the Author

Njoki Nathani Wane is a professor in the Department of Humanities, Social Science, and Social Justice Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto.