B’ATI NSE NLEYI, EEWO’BO MI NI: GLOBALIZATION AND INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE
B’ATI NSE NLEYI, EEWO’BO MI NI: GLOBALIZATION AND INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE

Summary/Abstract: THERE IS, PERHAPS, NO BETTER TIME THAN NOW FOR US TO APPRECIATE THE FACTOR OF THE IMMEDIATE ENVIRONMENT IN UNDERSTANDING THE PECULIARITIES OF DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE WORLD. THIS IS THE ESSENCE OF INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE IN A GLOBALIZED WORLD. AT VARIOUS TIMES, IT HAS BEEN DEMONSTRATED THAT WHAT WORKS IN A PART OF THE WORLD MAY NOT WORK, IN THE SAME WAY, IN ANOTHER PART, EVEN AS GLOBALIZATION CONTINUES TO ATTEMPT TO DEFINE WHAT HAPPENS IN THE WHOLE WORLD. THE ARTICLE EXAMINES HOW INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE HAS INFORMED HOW NIGERIANS’ ATTITUDES DEFY THE GLOBAL OUTLOOK BUT DETERMINE THEIR SURVIVAL TECHNIQUES THROUGH A RE-INTERPRETATION OF THEIR SITUATIONS USING THE UNDERSTANDING, SKILLS AND PHILOSOPHIES GARNERED IN THE PROCESS OF RELATING WITH THEIR NATURAL ENVIRONMENT. THE PAPER CAPTURES THOMAS’ SOCIOLOGICAL THEOREM OF ‘IF MEN DEFINE SITUATION AS REAL, THEY ARE REAL IN THEIR CONSEQUENCES’. IN DOING THIS, THE PAPER EXAMINES HOW POLITICS, SOME ECONOMIC PRACTICES AT THE MARKET PLACE AND HEALTH BEHAVIOR REDEFINE AND REINTERPRET GLOBAL EXPECTATIONS FOR SURVIVAL. THUS, THE PEOPLE’S ‘SUBJECTIVE’ INTERPRETATIONS HAVE BECOME ‘SCIENTIFIC’ WITH LITTLE RECOURSE TO GLOBALIZED EXPECTATIONS. IN THIS WISE, THE’ IDEAL’, GLOBAL, IS CONFRONTED BY THE ‘REAL’, INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE, AND, AT THE END, DEFINING THE CONSEQUENCES.

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