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Great Hall, University of Ghana and online via Zoom
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MIASA
Toyin Falola: "Ancestral Knowledge for Contemporary Transformation"
The Anton Wilhelm Amo Lecture is organized annually by MIASA at the University of Ghana in collaboration with the Institute of African Studies and the Department of Philosophy and Classics at the University of Ghana. The lecture series promotes MIASA’s overarching commitment of making African thinking increasingly relevant in global academia, and it addresses questions of how the humanities and social sciences can contribute to the decolonisation of knowledge production and epistemic justice.
This lecture with Toyin Falola focuses on the important role of ancestral knowledge in transformation in contemporary Africa. Drawing on traditional ecological knowledge, cultural knowledge, and community governance structures, the lecture discusses how traditional knowledge developed over the centuries could be useful in dealing with contemporary challenges such as environmental degradation, social inequalities, and economic instability.
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