The Department of Science and Technology-National Research Foundation Centre in Indigenous Knowledge Systems at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa) in collaboration with the IKS Working Group at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Africa Programme of the UN University for Peace (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) and the University of Rwanda (Rwanda), invites abstracts for papers to be presented at the postgraduate student conference under the theme: “Positioning African Ways of Knowing and Knowledge Production in the Global Conjectures: The Perspectives of African Emerging Researchers.
This is part of the partner institutions initiatives to develop and promote alternative paradigms of looking at Africa from African perspectives of knowledge production and value systems. In this context emphasis is on inter- and trans- disciplinary approach to research, i.e. one which combines different fields of life and which cuts across the disciplinary formations and conventions of the contemporary world as we currently experience them. In addition, the organizers of the conference call on paper contributions which historicise issues and put them into diverse cultural contexts in the African experience.
The Department of Science and Technology-National Research Foundation Centre in Indigenous Knowledge Systems at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa) in collaboration with the IKS Working Group at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Africa Programme of the UN University for Peace (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) and the University of Rwanda (Rwanda), invites abstracts for papers to be presented at the postgraduate student conference under the theme: “Positioning African Ways of Knowing and Knowledge Production in the Global Conjectures: The Perspectives of African Emerging Researchers.
This is part of the partner institutions initiatives to develop and promote alternative paradigms of looking at Africa from African perspectives of knowledge production and value systems. In this context emphasis is on inter- and trans- disciplinary approach to research, i.e. one which combines different fields of life and which cuts across the disciplinary formations and conventions of the contemporary world as we currently experience them. In addition, the organizers of the conference call on paper contributions which historicise issues and put them into diverse cultural contexts in the African experience.