Pre-colonial traditional societies in Sub-Saharan Africa were mostly oral societies whose languages were not written. In the African context, especially, it was clear that the mostly oral traditions of these societies' languages were neither being appreciated nor promoted as media of communication, or means of education by the invading Europeans.…

Since the early 1990s and, perhaps, as one effect of the emergence of the uni-polar world, there have been a lot of "democratizing" activities in the Sub-Saharan context, with Zambia, a central African country of about 10 million, at the forefront of these processes. While democracy, in one form or another, has come to Zambia, socio-economic…

The general understanding of epistemological questions is that they focus on questions that examine the theories of knowledge and ways of knowing. As such, different epistemic (knowledge) traditions should be expected to develop diverse trajectories of knowing and constructing select bodies of knowledge. Hence, the importance and increasing…