How really worth are the African endogenous knowledge and know-how? Why and how can we promote this inheritage, while the so-called western scientific model looks like the best means of knowing and mastering the world? This book answers these questions by examining ifa , a West-African system of knowledge and practices which a narrow knowledge reduces to a fanciful divinatory art, an art then logically "perceived as inconsistent and theoretically useless." Yet, more than a divinato.
How really worth are the African endogenous knowledge and know-how? Why and how can we promote this inheritage, while the so-called western scientific model looks like the best means of knowing and mastering the world? This book answers these questions by examining ifa , a West-African system of knowledge and practices which a narrow knowledge reduces to a fanciful divinatory art, an art then logically "perceived as inconsistent and theoretically useless." Yet, more than a divinato
