{"id":103754,"date":"2025-03-13T12:19:30","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T16:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/?p=103754"},"modified":"2025-04-09T16:55:25","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T20:55:25","slug":"history-knowledge-and-science-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/history-knowledge-and-science-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"History, Knowledge and Science in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\u201cThe big question is: is Western science as universalizable as Westerners say it is?\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 Mamadou Diouf<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

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In collaboration with CIRCEM and AISLF, Jurivision presents a series of interviews conducted as part of the XXII\u1d49 Congr\u00e8s international des sociologues de langue fran\u00e7aise<\/em><\/a>. Entitled \u201cSciences, Savoirs et Soci\u00e9t\u00e9s<\/em>\u201d, the Congress brought together over a thousand francophone and francophile scientists at the University of Ottawa in July 2024.<\/p>\n\n

In this post, Professor Mamadou Diouf compares Western history with history as thought and recorded by African societies. He explains the distinctions between orality and the principle of archiving, and discusses the impact of colonization on the production of knowledge in Africa. He challenges the universality of Western science and highlights some of the characteristics of African science, including the importance of practice and problem-solving.<\/p>\n\n

Mamadou Diouf talks more about African science and history in the episode Sciences, savoirs et soci\u00e9t\u00e9s (Part 6): Enjeux et d\u00e9fis scientifiques contemporains<\/a><\/em> of the CIRCEM podcasts.<\/p>\n\n

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Western perspectives have long been dominant in the development of knowledge about Africa. In this post, Professor Mamadou Diouf compares Western history with history as thought and recorded by African societies. He explains the distinctions between orality and the principle of archiving. He challenges the universality of Western science and highlights certain characteristics of African science, including the importance of practice and problem-solving. An interview conducted by Jurivision in collaboration with CIRCEM as part of the XXII\u1d49 AISLF Congress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":103757,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[314,316],"class_list":["post-103754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-metho","tag-aislf-en","tag-sociology"],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":29,"label":"JuriMetho"}],"post_tag":[{"value":314,"label":"AISLF"},{"value":316,"label":"Sociology"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/mamadou-diouf-wide-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"Patrick Walton","author_link":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/author\/patrick\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":29,"name":"JuriMetho","slug":"metho","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":29,"taxonomy":"category","description":"Visual publications that explore the challenges and opportunities associated with legal research.","parent":0,"count":34,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0","cat_ID":29,"category_count":34,"category_description":"Visual publications that explore the challenges and opportunities associated with legal research.","cat_name":"JuriMetho","category_nicename":"metho","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":314,"name":"AISLF","slug":"aislf-en","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":314,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":11,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0"},{"term_id":316,"name":"Sociology","slug":"sociology","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":316,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":11,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurivision.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}