By Gloria Emeagwali, George J. Sefa Dei

This article explores the multidisciplinary context of African Indigenous wisdom platforms from students and pupil activists devoted to the interrogation, construction, articulation, dissemination and common improvement of endogenous and indigenous modes of highbrow job and praxis. The paintings reinforces the call for for the decolonization of the academy and makes the case for a paradigmatic shift in content material, subject material and curriculum in associations in Africa and in other places - so that it will hard and rejecting disinformation and highbrow servitude. Indigenous highbrow discourses regarding different disciplines take middle degree during this quantity with a spotlight on schooling, arithmetic, drugs, chemistry and engineering of their historic and modern context.

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BioResources, 2(3), 472-499. Takano, J. (2004). Sprouts, why do they call it wonder food? Part 1. , & Nury, F. (1999). Wine analysis and production (pp. 97-114). New York: Kluwer Academic Publishers. 28 M. Z. ZARUWA AND Z. E. KWAGHE 4. TRADITIONAL TANNERY AND DYEING (YIRIE) METHODS A Science Par Excellence in Northeastern Nigeria TRADITIONAL LEATHER TANNING IN NORTHEASTERN NIGERIA This study takes a critical look at the ingenuity behind traditional African tannery and dyeing methods in some parts of Northeastern Nigeria, in Adamawa State.

28 M. Z. ZARUWA AND Z. E. KWAGHE 4. TRADITIONAL TANNERY AND DYEING (YIRIE) METHODS A Science Par Excellence in Northeastern Nigeria TRADITIONAL LEATHER TANNING IN NORTHEASTERN NIGERIA This study takes a critical look at the ingenuity behind traditional African tannery and dyeing methods in some parts of Northeastern Nigeria, in Adamawa State. It points to the basic concepts and the science involved in traditional tannery and dyeing using locally sourced materials. Northeastern Nigeria has a long history of traditional leather tanning.

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