African systems of science, technology & art
Subtitle: the Nigerian experience
By: Gloria Thomas-Emeagwali, editor.
Contributors: Thomas-Emeagwali, Gloria, 1950-
Publisher: Karnak House; Frontline International [distributor]
Published: 1993
Place of publication: London, England; Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 143
Subjects: Technology -- Nigeria -- History.; Science -- Nigeria -- History.; Art and technology -- Nigeria -- History.
Other titles: African systems of science, technology, and art.
Description: These essays, compiled and introduced by Gloria Thomas-Emeagwali, represent an important collection of African scientific history and historiography. The writers concentrate on the different aspects of technological and scientific experiments and the processes and procedures which exemplify a live tradition. The book shows that the scientific spirit is not isolated to a particular group of people, nor to a particular region, but to the whole of Nigeria.

The essays confirm the extent to which the scientific spirit has been a fundamental social activity in Nigeria in the pre- and post-colonial world: the quest for new technology, new methods of investigation and application, remains a foundation of Nigerian society upon which innovations are being introduced to lend to the inherited scientific traditions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [127]-143).