On Postcolonial Knowledge

What is it about?

In contemporary world, knowledge is often equated with scientific knowledge. And this undermines all other non-scientific ways of knowing. This is made even more serious within postcolonial African societies where Eurocentrism has concretized science as the sole knowledge paradigm. In this essay, I ask the question of how such African societies can rethink the dynamics of knowledge production not only by engaging the flaws of positivism, but by also exploring postpositivism as a critique within western understanding of science to ground an autonomous framework that validates local knowledge, like the Ifá corpus, which can assist them in their quest for social transformation.

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