%0 Journal Article
%T [Re]claiming Indigenous Knowledge: Challenges, Resistance, and Opportunities
%A Njoki Nathani Wane
%J Decolonization : Indigeneity, Education & Society
%D 2013
%I Journal Publishing Services
%X In May 1994, I arrived in Kenya to carry out my research on Africa and, more specifically, rural Kenyan women¡¯s Indigenous ways of knowing.  My interest in this research was sparked by the lack of textual knowledge of African Indigenous knowledges during my tenure in three North American universities. As a young scholar,  I ¡°ran¡± away from Kenya because, all through my education, there was a great emphasis on western education, lifestyle, and culture.  I longed for it, hungered for it, and worked hard to acquire it.  I was convinced that, once I enrolled in a University outside my country, the curriculum would in some way touch on African ways. In this regard, I was mistaken. The paper has four parts: 1) the introduction and a brief background to my interest in Indigenous knowledges; 2)  the method employed; 3) a discussion of two knowledge claims. The two knowledge claims represent part of my research findings;  4) a pseudo-conclusion, given that this work involves my search for self, a process which has been ongoing since the nineties.
%K Africa
%K Indigenous knowledges
%K feminism
%K cultural identity
%U http://decolonization.org/index.php/des/article/view/19244