{"id":20855,"date":"2026-06-04T09:08:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T13:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/?page_id=20855"},"modified":"2026-09-08T16:53:04","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T20:53:04","slug":"africa-indigenous-knowledge-research-network","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/africa-indigenous-knowledge-research-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa Indigenous Knowledge Research Network."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Africa Indigenous Knowledge Research Network.\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<h2 id=\"our-vision\" class=\"wp-block-heading elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Our Vision<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-744ad918 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor animated fadeInLeft\" data-id=\"744ad918\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInLeft&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n<p>This network researches, re-centers, and harnesses African indigenous knowledge through collaboration with custodians like elders, traditional leaders, and youth. It aims to restore authenticity and counter the historical silencing of African wisdom.<\/p>\n<p>The Network connects African indigenous knowledge with technology and global ideas through an interdisciplinary approach. We foster cross-cultural learning on reconciliation and decolonization, linking initiatives in Canada with decolonization efforts in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The Network will work with various community groups to re-center the authenticity of African epistemology on various issues such as traditional governance, food security, ecosystem, biodiversity, agriculture, arts, folklores, technology, climate change, human and animal health, animal reproduction, natural resource management, conservation and environmental protection. Through international collaboration on issues and challenges important to Indigenous communities globally, we aim to strengthen institutional capacities related to Indigenous-led research, community engagement, and intercultural communication, understanding, and cooperation.<\/p>\n<p>Read more:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/africaindigenousresearch.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Africa Indigenous Knowledge Research Network<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Vision This network researches, re-centers, and harnesses African indigenous knowledge through collaboration with custodians like elders, traditional leaders, and youth. It aims to restore authenticity and counter the historical silencing of African wisdom. The Network connects African indigenous knowledge with technology and global ideas through an interdisciplinary approach. 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