Indigenous African knowledges and African feminism: Resisting eurocentric ways of knowing

Abstract

Indigenous knowledge systems of Africa must be documented by the people who hold a legitimate claim of ownership to their foremothers' knowledges in order to resist appropriation and co-optation by Eurocentrism. The documentation of Indigenous African knowledges is important not just for decolonizing mainstream western feminism, but also for making these knowledges more visible to resist outright Eurocentric subjugation.