Publications
Explore our collection of academic publications on Indigenous Knowledge Systems, traditional practices, and cultural heritage.
India-Africa Millets International Symposium: Roadmap for Institutional Cooperation
Formalized international research and community engagement agreements focused on the biocultural and nutritional significance of millets.
1st International Colloquium on Promoting Cross-Cultural and Linguistic Relations
AIIKS Secretariat
High-level engagement on the prospects of teaching and learning in African indigenous languages to support the AU Agenda 2063.
IKS-based Disaster Risk Reduction Management (DRRM) Training
AIIKS Expert Panel
A specialized training intervention focused on integrating Indigenous Knowledge Systems into Disaster Risk Reduction Management policy development and social practices.
Psychopathology Among Apprentice Traditional Health Practitioners: A Quantitative Study from Rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Martine C.E. van der Zeijst, Wim Veling, Elliot Mqansa Makhathini, Sisanda Mtshemla, Ndukuzakhe D. Mbatha, Sinethemba S. Shabalala, Ida Susser, Jonathan K. Burns, Ezra Susser, Hans W. Hoek
Indigenous African Knowledge System (IAKS) Ethos: Prospects for a Post-Colonial Curriculum
Ntokozo Mthembu
The Ambit of Ethics in the South African Academic Institutions: Experience of Coloniality
Xolani Mathews Shange
The Impacts of Drought and the Adaptive Strategies of Small-Scale Farmers in uMsinga, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Shenelle J Lottering; Paramu Mafongoya; Romano Lottering
Analysis of Livelihood Strategies for Reducing Poverty Among Rural Women's Households: A Case Study of KwaZulu‐Natal, South Africa
Stanley Sharaunga, Maxwell Mudhara
Ethnomedicinal Uses, Biological Activities, Phytochemistry And Conservation of African Ginger (Siphonochilus aethiopicus): A Commercially Important and Endangered Medicinal Plant
Salmon A. Adebayo, Stephen O. Amoo, Salmina N. Mokgehle, Adeyemi O. Aremu,
The Significance of Multicultural Methodologies on African Indigenous Knowledge Research
Stewart Lee Kugara, Tsetselelani Decide Mdhluli, Thizwilondi Joanbeth Daswa, Pfarelo Eva Matshidze and Ndidzulafhi Esther Ramavhunga
Towards an African-Centered Model of Learning: Africanism
Rendani Tshifhumulo, Faith F. Musvipwa, Tshimangadzo Justice Makhanikhe and Livhuwani Daphney Tshikukuvhe
This chapter interrogates the current teaching and learning strategies in South African higher institutions of learning in relation to the negligence of cultural aspects. For many years now, the general population in South Africa agitated for the amendment or annulment of the current education system as a means of restoring the African norms and values. The suspension and/or expulsion of some African students from schools due to their adherence to African values is a vivid example of how the education system undermines African cultures and traditions. The chapter deliberated on story telling as one of the methods that is relevant for Indigenous Knowledge Systems. On the central argument of the chapter the authors conversed on colonialisation and its impact on education in South Africa. OBE and the revised national curriculum statement and the crises in South African education system are discussed. The chapter ends by interrogating the possibility of using African Languages in the school curriculum.
Development and transfer of innovative technologies for farm-level cocoa processing and use of byproducts
AIIKS Researchers