Applying Indigenous Knowledge in the Modern World

Many developing countries are seeing indigenous knowledge systems transforming to a commercial stage. This is exposing the myth that indigenous knowledge can remain pure and undiluted in the current rapidly globalising world. This is according to Charles Dhewa, CEO of Knowledge Transfer Africa (KTA.)

The modern economy forces farmers, traders, and other economic actors to contribute knowledge to their socio-economic networks. Every farmer or trader should control his or her own learning and belong to a network. Engaging with other value chain actors, especially those different from you, is the key to making sense of too much information whose volume and diversity is rapidly increasing. Traditionally, African communities had tacit mechanisms for transferring skills from one generation to another. That is how career paths were forged, for example, children of farmers, artisans, and blacksmith had important knowledge passed to them from their parents. There were no formal Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs) which enabled formal and informal knowledge exchange.

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