Mitigation ofAfrican Indigenous Knowledge

Abstract

African indigenous knowledge is the life style of Africans, based on each community experiences in its wholeness to include their medicine, festivals, agriculture and social life. It comes inform of oral tradition and transmitted through folk tales, proverbs and idioms. This paper therefore identified colonization, modernization, and globalization as major mitigation of African indigenous knowledge. It then suggest that attention should be paid to method of teaching the African indigenous knowledge to fit in to the present age, adequacy of literature for posterity and educating today's African youths on the wise use of social media.