The Struggle of African Indigenous Knowledge Systems in an Age of Globalization: A Case for Children�s Traditional Games in S

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Langaa Research & Publishing Common Initiative Group P.O. Box 902 Mankon Bamenda North West Region Cameroon This is a comprehensive study and erudite description of the struggle of African Indigenous Knowledge Systems in an Age of Globalization, using in particular eighty-four children’s traditional games in southeastern Zimbabwe. The book is an informative and interesting anthropological account of rare African children’s games at the risk of disappearing under globalization. The virtue of the book does not only lie in its modest philosophical questioning of those knowledge forms that consider themselves as superior to others, but in its laudable, healthy appreciation of the creative art forms of traditional literature that features in genres such as endangered children’s traditional games. The book is a clarion call to Africans and the world beyond to come to the rescue of relegated and marginalized African creativity in the interest of future generations. MUNYARADZI MAWERE is a PhD student in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and an Associate Professor at Universidade Pedagogica, Mozambique. He has written and published books and a number of papers with internationally accredited referred peer journals. His most recent books include Moral Degeneration In Contemporary Zimbabwean Business Practices, Africa Focus Debates On Contemporary Contentious Biomedical Issues and African Belief And Knowledge Systems: A Critical Perspective. ...