Nigeria, June 16 -- Regarding the development rhetoric of contemporary Africa, the relentless pursuit of Western model of development sometimes ignores the contribution of local knowledge systems. Western paradigms, which developed during the time of colonialism, have dominated problems related to education, technology, and development over many years. Conversely, this hegemony has come at a great cost of marginalisation and deliberate erasure of Africa's own scientific and technical legacy. Apart from their marginalisation for a considerable length of the colonial era, African knowledge systems were also fiercely portrayed as of inferior quality. Though African countries are working to rebuild their intellectual bases, this systematic ex...