{"id":19734,"date":"2024-05-24T13:02:58","date_gmt":"2024-05-24T17:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/?p=19734"},"modified":"2026-09-08T16:53:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T20:53:13","slug":"empowering-african-youth-through-indigenous-knowledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/2024\/empowering-african-youth-through-indigenous-knowledge\/","title":{"rendered":"Empowering African Youth Through Indigenous Knowledge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Empowering African Youth Through Indigenous Knowledge\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

Empowering African Youth Through Indigenous Knowledge<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Indigenous knowledge across Africa holds valuable insight into sustainable growth and development, yet has often been left out of mainstream discourse. In response, a groundbreaking partnership is underway to harness this wisdom and foster youth entrepreneurship in Indigenous communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Led by Dr. Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba<\/a> from the Institute of African Studies, the African Indigenous Knowledge Research Network<\/a> (AIKRN) is facilitating collaborations between researchers, NGOs, Indigenous knowledge keepers, and Indigenous youth across nine African countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Building on its initial success, AIKRN is now embarking on its second phase focused on the co-creation of knowledge through direct engagement, reinforcing existing initiatives on sustainable livelihoods, identifying areas for youth employment, and strengthening the network\u2019s foundation through strategic activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This work will be delivered in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation<\/a>, a registered Canadian charity that works with visionary organizations to enable young people in Africa and Indigenous youth in Canada to access dignified and fulfilling work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Community is at the heart of the research process. By prioritizing a decolonial approach, AIKRN aims to better understand a holistic, Indigenous African perspective of success aligned with Indigenous traditions and values.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Empowering African Youth Through Indigenous Knowledge Indigenous knowledge across Africa holds valuable insight into sustainable growth and development, yet has often been left out of mainstream discourse. In response, a groundbreaking partnership is underway to harness this wisdom and foster youth entrepreneurship in Indigenous communities. Led by Dr. Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba from the Institute of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19735,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19734"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19738,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19734\/revisions\/19738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}