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Recent debates on the role and contribution of African Inthgenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) have expanded the scope of African stuthes and education scholarships. African pastoral communities, which consist of inthgenous people, are a few of the continent’s population that retain and promote IKS, not only as a means of cultural sustainability, but for survival and general livelihood. This chapter examines the feminization of inthgenous knowledge systems (IKS) among the pastoral Fulani of Nigeria, as well as across West Africa. Through literature reviews and oral narratives, the chapter elucidates women and girls’ cognitive, aesthetic, spiritual, and moral educational components of cultural literacy. These are not only the norms and values of the Fulani females, but considered the cultural essentials that define females’ social agency and coexistence. In adthtion, the chapter recapitulates the purpose, nature, characteristics, and processes of these knowledge systems in order to connect the learning outcomes to the females and the ethnic community in general.
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Usman, L.M. (2010). The Indigenous Knowledge System of Female Pastoral Fulani of Northern Nigeria. In: Kapoor, D., Shizha, E. (eds) Indigenous Knowledge and Learning in Asia/Pacific and Africa. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230111813_14
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