Africa development : a quarterly journal of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, vol. 30, no. 3, 2005
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2005
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CODESRIA, Dakar, SN
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Contents: All knowledge is first of all local knowledge : an introduction / Theophilus I. Okere, Chukwudi Anthony Njoku & René Devisch, p. 1 -- Is there one science, Western science? / Theophilus Okere, p. 20 -- African mathematical systems: Traditional Igbo numbering system / Patrick Mathias C. Ogomaka, p. 35 --Ethnomathematics, geometry and educational experience in Africa / Paulus Gerdes, p. 48 -- African health systems: Domestication of medicinal plants in Southestern Nigeria / A.E. Ibe and Martin I. Nwufo, p. 66 -- Understanding Igbo medicine practitioners / Patrick Iroegbu, p. 78 -- Cultural modes of comprehending and healing insanity : The Yaka of DR Congo / René Devisch, p. 98 -- African arts: Subjectivity in servitude : the servant and indigenous family arrangement in written Igbo drama / Frances N. Chukwukere, p. 112 -- I dance Ala Igbo (Poem) / Chikwendu P. K. Anyanwu, p. 130 -- Review article = Revues de livres: Spectralizing Bergson and the dilemmas of decolonization : a review of Messay Kebede, Africa’s quest for a philosophy of decolonization, 2004 / Sanya Osha, p. 135 -- Book reviews = Notes de lecture: Richard Werbner, 2004, Reasonable radicals and citizenship in Botswana : the public anthropology of Kalanga elites / Onalenna Doo Selolwane, p. 143 -- Uta Wehn de Montalvo, 2003, Mapping the determinants of spatial data sharing / Yoichi Mine, p. 145
Contents: All knowledge is first of all local knowledge : an introduction / Theophilus I. Okere, Chukwudi Anthony Njoku & René Devisch, p. 1 -- Is there one science, Western science? / Theophilus Okere, p. 20 -- African mathematical systems: Traditional Igbo numbering system / Patrick Mathias C. Ogomaka, p. 35 --Ethnomathematics, geometry and educational experience in Africa / Paulus Gerdes, p. 48 -- African health systems: Domestication of medicinal plants in Southestern Nigeria / A.E. Ibe and Martin I. Nwufo, p. 66 -- Understanding Igbo medicine practitioners / Patrick Iroegbu, p. 78 -- Cultural modes of comprehending and healing insanity : The Yaka of DR Congo / René Devisch, p. 98 -- African arts: Subjectivity in servitude : the servant and indigenous family arrangement in written Igbo drama / Frances N. Chukwukere, p. 112 -- I dance Ala Igbo (Poem) / Chikwendu P. K. Anyanwu, p. 130 -- Review article = Revues de livres: Spectralizing Bergson and the dilemmas of decolonization : a review of Messay Kebede, Africa’s quest for a philosophy of decolonization, 2004 / Sanya Osha, p. 135 -- Book reviews = Notes de lecture: Richard Werbner, 2004, Reasonable radicals and citizenship in Botswana : the public anthropology of Kalanga elites / Onalenna Doo Selolwane, p. 143 -- Uta Wehn de Montalvo, 2003, Mapping the determinants of spatial data sharing / Yoichi Mine, p. 145
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ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT, ECONOMIC RESEARCH, SOCIAL RESEARCH, INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE, SCIENCE, MATHEMATICS, HEALTH SYSTEM, TRADITIONAL MEDICINE, MEDICINAL PLANTS, PERFORMING ARTS, DECOLONIZATION, ANTHROPOLOGY, SPATIAL ANALYSIS, AFRICA