The Palgrave Handbook of African Education and Indigenous Knowledge

This handbook explores the evolution of African education in historical perspectives as well as the development within its three systems?Indigenous, Islamic, and Western education models and how African societies have maintained and changed their approaches to education within and across these systems. African education continues to find itself at once preserving its knowledge, while integrating Islamic and Western aspects in order to compete within this global reality. Contributors take up issues and themes of the positioning, resistance, accommodation, and transformations of indigenous education in relationship to the introduction of Islamic and later Western education. Issues and themes raised acknowledge the contemporary development and positioning of indigenous education within African societies and provide understanding of how indigenous education works within individual societies and national frameworks as an essential part of African contemporary society. Provided by publisher Front Matter ....Pages i-xliii Front Matter ....Pages 1-2 Introduction to Africa’s Educational Wealth (Toyin Falola)....Pages 3-38 Ancient Africa Education: Egypt and Nubia (Julia Troche)....Pages 39-62 East African Indigenous Education Before the Era of Islam (Daniel N. Sifuna)....Pages 63-77 Anglophone Africa: Education, Religion, and Nation Building, 1960s–1990s (Jamaine M. Abidogun)....Pages 79-99 Conduit and Gatekeeper: Practices and Contestations of Language Within Informal and Formal Education in Senegal (Karla Giuliano Sarr)....Pages 101-126 Islamic/Muslim Education in Africa: From North to West Africa (Mukhtar Umar Bunza)....Pages 127-150 Christianity and Vocational Education in Africa (Andrew E. Barnes)....Pages 151-183 Central African Education: Indigenous to Western (Gertrude Mianda)....Pages 185-198 Front Matter ....Pages 199-200 Reconstructing African Philosophies of Education: Historical and Contemporary Analyses (Ali A. Abdi)....Pages 201-213 African Indigenous Knowledge, African State Formation, and Education (Cati Coe)....Pages 215-232 African Education and Cultural Belief Systems: Extrapolations from Igboland, Nigeria (Christian Chukwuma Opata)....Pages 233-244 African Theatre as Indigenous Education (Peter Ukpokodu)....Pages 245-263 North Africa Nomadic Indigenous Knowledge: Ayt Khabach Nomads Urban Challenges in Southeastern Morocco (Mokhtar Bouba)....Pages 265-277 Elders’ Cultural Knowledges and African Indigeneity (George J. Sefa Dei)....Pages 279-301 East Africa and Indigenous Knowledge: Its Nature, Contents, Aims, Contemporary Structures, and Vitality (Solomon Ochwo-Oburu)....Pages 303-318 Gendered Sphere of Traditional Knowledge in Morocco (Bernadette Montanari)....Pages 319-334 African Indigenous Knowledges and the Decolonization of Education in Africa (Gloria Emeagwali)....Pages 335-349 Front Matter ....Pages 351-352 Islamic Education in Contemporary Africa (Émilie Roy)....Pages 353-367 East Africa and Contemporary Muslim Education: The Unholy Triple Alliance Conundrum (Solomon Ochwo-Oburu)....Pages 369-389 Central and Southern Africa: Islamic Education Variations (Muhammed Haron)....Pages 391-420 Islamic Philosophies of Education in Africa (Oludamini Ogunnaike)....Pages 421-449 Gendering Contemporary Islamic Education (Hauwa’u Evelyn Yusuf)....Pages 451-462 ‘Francophone’ Education Intersectionalities: Gender, Language, and Religion (Halimatou Hima)....Pages 463-525 Islamic Education and the Quest for Islamic Identity: The Case of Ghana (Abdul-Samad Abdullah)....Pages 527-543 African Ajami: The Case of Senegal (Mamadou Youry Sall)....Pages 545-557 Muslim Education Policies and Epistemologies in African Tertiary Education (Bakheit Mohammed Nur)....Pages 559-575 Front Matter ....Pages 577-578 African Education: Consciencism or Neocolonialism (Kofi Kissi Dompere)....Pages 579-595 Visual Studies of Community Schools in an Inner Suburb of Bamako, Mali (Sidy Lamine Bagayoko)....Pages 597-616 Afro-Anglophone Education (Peter Otiato Ojiambo)....Pages 617-636 Universal Primary Education in Africa: Facets and Meanings (Nobuhide Sawamura)....Pages 637-655 Tertiary Education in Anglophone West Africa: Contextualizing Challenges (Bukola Adeyemi Oyeniyi)....Pages 657-670 Whose African Education Is It? (Marika Matengu, Ailie Cleghorn)....Pages 671-682 Rethinking Pedagogy and Educational Practice in Africa: Comparative Analysis of Liberative and Ubuntu Educational Philosophies (Pamela Machakanja, Chupicai Shollah Manuel)....Pages 683-701 Where Religion and Education Meet in Africa (Amy Stambach)....Pages 703-714 Linguistic and Cultural Rights in STEAM Education: Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (Zehlia Babaci-Wilhite)....Pages 715-735 A Gendered Analysis of Indigenous Knowledge, Customary Law and Education in Africa: An Anti-colonial Project (Njoki Nathani Wane, Wambui Karanja, Hermia Morton Anthony)....Pages 737-760 Diaspora Migrations: Brain Drain or Symbioses (Omiunota Nelly Ukpokodu)....Pages 761-786 Afrocentric Education in North America: An Introduction (Arlo Kempf, George J. Sefa Dei)....Pages 787-801 Back Matter ....Pages 803-808 1. Introduction to Africa's Educational Wealth -- 2. Ancient Africa Education: Egypt and Nubia -- 3. East Africa Indigenous Education before the Era of Islam -- 4. Anglophone Africa: Education, Religion, and Nation Building, 1960s-1990s -- 5. Conduit and Gatekeeper: Practices and Contestations of Language within Informal and Formal Education in Senegal -- 6. Islamic/Muslim Education in Africa: From North to West Africa -- 7. Christianity and Vocational Education in Africa -- 8. Central African Education: Indigenous to Western -- 9. Reconstructing African Philosophies of Education: Historical and Actual Analyses -- 10. African Indigenous Knowledge, African State Formation, and Education -- 11. African Education and Cultural Belief Systems: Extrapolations from Igboland, Nigeria -- 12. African Theatre as Indigenous Education -- 13. North Africa Nomadic Indigenous Knowledge: Ayt Khabbach Nomads Urban Challenges in Southeastern Morocco -- 14. Elders' Cultural Knowledges and African Indigeneity -- 15. East Africa and Indigenous Knowledge: Its Nature, Contents, Aims, Contemporary Structures and Vitality -- 16. Gendered Sphere of Traditional Knowledge in Morocco -- 17. African Indigenous Knowledges and the Decolonization of Education in Africa -- 18. Islamic Education in Contemporary Africa -- 19. East Africa and Contemporary Islamic Education: The Unholy Triple Alliance Conundrum -- 20. Central and Southern Africa: Islamic Education Variations -- 21. Islamic Philosophies of Education in Africa -- 22. Gendering Contemporary Islamic Education -- 23. Francophone Education Intersectionalities: Gender, Language, Religion -- 24. Islamic Education and the Quest for Islamic Identity: The Case of Ghana -- 25. The Africam ajami. Case of Senegal -- 26. Muslim Education Policies and Epistemologies in African Tertiary Education -- 27. African Education: Consciencism or Neo-Colonialism -- 28. Visual Studies of Community Schools in an Inner Suburb of Bamako -- 29. Afro-Anglophone Education -- 30. Universal Primary Education: Facets and Meanings -- 31. Tertiary Education in Anglophone West Africa: Contextualizing Challenges -- 32. Whose African Education is it? -- 33. Rethinking Pedagogy and Education Practice in Africa: Comparative Analysis Liberative and Ubuntu Education Philosophies -- 34. Where Religion and Education Meet in Africa -- 35. Linguistic and Cultural Rights in STEAM: Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts & Mathematics -- 36. A Gendered Analysis of Indigenous Knowledge, Customary Law and Education in Africa: An Anti-Colonial Project -- 37. Diaspora Migrations: Brain Drain or Symbiosis -- 38. Afrocentric Education in North America: An Introduction.-