A Struggle of Discourses Attempting to Transform a Peripatetic Mind of a Black African Academic: Is there a Valid Disquiet about Research and Education in Black Africa?

Abstract

The education Black Africans receive is imported and the research they do is to mainly test and validate understandings based on foreign discourses, and knowledge systems. These rarely commit to the African Indigenous Knowledge Systems. I have studied subjects that are not concomitant with my Indigenous Knowledge System (IKS), and so had to emigrate to find work more suitable to my studies. My mind thus became peripatetic being all along confronted by discourses that challenge my origins and make my IKS look inferior and useless. Possibly, other Black Africans have endured similar challenges. So, there seems to be a valid disquiet about research in Black Africa. Some possible spaces to transform discourses to accommodate Black African paradigms are proposed.