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Africa World Press
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Table of Contents

Revisiting African science and technology
Pre-colonial African iron metallurgy: methodology, socio-cultural context, and decline -- Aribidesi Usman
Rethinking the notion of science and technology in Africa: a case of hill furrows, Kilimanjaro, Tanzania -- Elinami V. Swai
Science and technological inventions among the Yorubas before colonialism -- Olukayode Segun Eesuola
Yoruba numeral system, epistemic root in Ifa oracular/literary corpus and the challenges of science/technology -- Nelson O. Fashina
Eurocentrization of science and technology and knowledge in Africa in Tanzania -- Elinami V. Swai -- Cross-section of environmental issues and threats in Africa
From Jesse to Ijegun: poverty, environmental degradation and the quest for the redistribution of the Nigeria's oil wealth -- Monsuru Muritala
Potential of microbial strains for reclamation and clean-up of polluted Nigerian soils -- T.O. Adejumo
The economy of accelerated food production, land conflicts and environmental degradation in central Nigeria region -- Mike O. Odey
Growing slums and improper sanitation habits as impediment to development in Nigeria -- Hauwau Evelyn Yusuf and Ahmad Bawa Abdul-Qadir
Post-colonial environmental issues in Africa: globalization, science, technology and the language question -- Ann Albuyeh
African writers and the metaphor of environmental degradation: an ecocritical perspective on Niyi Osundare and Tanure Ojaide's selected poems -- Ademola O. Dasylva -- Ecology, science and technology and conflicts in the postcolonial era
Ecological roots of social conflict in Kenya: pastoralism, land, and the development paradox -- Shadrack Wanjala Nasong'o
Failed promises: a study of the promotion of science and technology in Nigeria -- Bukola Adeyemi Oyeniyi
Sustainable design, a democratic tool for social upliftment -- Jolanda Morkel and Maria Leus
Traditional architecture and environmental conservation among the Abaluyia of western Kenya: lessons for contemporary society -- Maurice N. Amutabi
Climate change and sustainable development in Nigeria -- Soji Oyeranmi -- African environment and conservation methods revisited
The challenge of biofuels development in Africa: an institutional analysis and development (IAD) perspective -- Ogundiran Soumonni
The role of folklore and folk life in environmental education and sanitation in Yorubaland -- A. Ademiluyi and R.A. Asiyanbola
Fighting "modern slavery": securing land rights for the Saramaka -- Adam Carpinelli
Managing filth in Nigeria -- Nnenna George-Kalu & George Kalu
Gender, work and technology in rural Africa -- 'Lai Olurode.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Trenton, NJ

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
303.48/3096
Library of Congress
Q175.52.A4 P47 2011, Q175.52.A4 P47 2012, Q175.52.A4P47 2011

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Pagination
p. cm.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25047113M
Internet Archive
perspectivesonaf0000unse_l3e6
ISBN 13
9781592218837, 9781592218844
LCCN
2011039533

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