Critical Analysis of the Production of Western Knowledge and Its Implications for Indigenous Knowledge and Decolonization

Journal of Black Studies

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 599-619

  Akena, Francis Adyanga ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

decolonization; denigration; indigenous knowledge; knowledge production; Western knowledge

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864672930     PISSN: 00219347     EISSN: 15524566     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0021934712440448     Document Type: Article

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