Abstract
Contributions made by Africa and its people to history and civilization are conspicuously missing from textbooks for formal education and remain unknown to many (Ngara, 2007). It is against this background that the various aspects of indigenous physics knowledge systems should be resuscitated. This chapter analyzes some aspects of the indigenous physics knowledge systems (IPKS) and argues that IPKS did not die as a result of colonial conquest (Mapara, 2009).
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Sithole, M. (2016). Indigenous Physics and the Academy. In: Emeagwali, G., Shizha, E. (eds) African Indigenous Knowledge and the Sciences. Anti-colonial Educational Perspectives for Transformative Change. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-515-9_7
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