What Do Science, Technology, And Innovation Mean From Africa?

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Explorations of science technology & innovation in Africa not as the product of "technology transfer" from elsewhere but as the working of African knowledge In the STI literature Africa has often been regarded as a recipient of science technology & innovation rather than a maker of them In this book scholars from a range of disciplines show that STI in Africa is not merely the product of "technology transfer" from elsewhere but the working of African knowledge Their contributions focus on African ways of looking meaning-making & creating The chapter authors see Africans as intellectual agents whose perspectives constitute authoritative knowledge & whose strategic deployment of both endogenous & inbound things represents an African-centered notion of STI " Things do not (always) mean the same from everywhere" observes Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga the volume's editor Western colonialist definitions of STI are not universalizable The contributors discuss topics that include the trivialization of indigenous knowledge under colonialism; the creative labor of chimurenga the transformation of everyday surroundings into military infrastructure; the role of enslaved Africans in America as innovators & synthesizers; the African ethos of "fixing"; the constitutive appropriation that makes mobile technologies African; & an African innovation strategy that builds on domestic capacities The contributions describe an Africa that is creative technological & scientific showing that African STI is the latest iteration of a long process of accumulative multicultural knowledge production Contributors Geri Augusto Shadreck Chirikure Chux Daniels Ron Eglash Ellen Foster Garrick E Louis D A Masolo Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga Neda Nazemi Toluwalogo Odumosu Katrien Pype Scott Remer