Perspectives on the African environment, science and technology
By: edited by Toyin Falola and Maurice Amutabi
Publisher: Africa World Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Trenton, NJ
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781592218837; 9781592218844
Subjects: Science; Technology and civilization; Technology; Environmental protection
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Revisiting African science and technology; title: Pre-colonial African iron metallurgy: methodology, socio-cultural context, and decline  -- Aribidesi Usman; title: Rethinking the notion of science and technology in Africa: a case of hill furrows, Kilimanjaro, Tanzania  -- Elinami V. Swai; title: Science and technological inventions among the Yorubas before colonialism  -- Olukayode Segun Eesuola; title: Yoruba numeral system, epistemic root in Ifa oracular/literary corpus and the challenges of science/technology  -- Nelson O. Fashina; title: Eurocentrization of science and technology and knowledge in Africa in Tanzania  -- Elinami V. Swai -- Cross-section of environmental issues and threats in Africa; title: From Jesse to Ijegun: poverty, environmental degradation and the quest for the redistribution of the Nigeria's oil wealth  -- Monsuru Muritala; title: Potential of microbial strains for reclamation and clean-up of polluted Nigerian soils  -- T.O. Adejumo; title: The economy of accelerated food production, land conflicts and environmental degradation in central Nigeria region  -- Mike O. Odey; title: Growing slums and improper sanitation habits as impediment to development in Nigeria  -- Hauwau Evelyn Yusuf and Ahmad Bawa Abdul-Qadir; title: Post-colonial environmental issues in Africa: globalization, science, technology and the language question  -- Ann Albuyeh; title: African writers and the metaphor of environmental degradation: an ecocritical perspective on Niyi Osundare and Tanure Ojaide's selected poems  -- Ademola O. Dasylva -- Ecology, science and technology and conflicts in the postcolonial era; title: Ecological roots of social conflict in Kenya: pastoralism, land, and the development paradox  -- Shadrack Wanjala Nasong'o; title: Failed promises: a study of the promotion of science and technology in Nigeria  -- Bukola Adeyemi Oyeniyi; title: Sustainable design, a democratic tool for social upliftment  -- Jolanda Morkel and Maria Leus; title: Traditional architecture and environmental conservation among the Abaluyia of western Kenya: lessons for contemporary society  -- Maurice N. Amutabi; title: Climate change and sustainable development in Nigeria  -- Soji Oyeranmi -- African environment and conservation methods revisited; title: The challenge of biofuels development in Africa: an institutional analysis and development (IAD) perspective  -- Ogundiran Soumonni; title: The role of folklore and folk life in environmental education and sanitation in Yorubaland  -- A. Ademiluyi and R.A. Asiyanbola; title: Fighting "modern slavery": securing land rights for the Saramaka  -- Adam Carpinelli; title: Managing filth in Nigeria  -- Nnenna George-Kalu & George Kalu; title: Gender, work and technology in rural Africa -- 'Lai Olurode.