Discusses the writing of the book "Africa Counts: Number and Pattern in African Culture" and relates efforts to introduce multicultural perspectives into the mathematics curriculum at the elementary and secondary levels. Proposes what needs to be done to introduce ethnomathematical perspectives into the curriculum. (24 references) (MKR)

Discusses the ethnomathematics movement, the emergence of concepts related to ethnomathematics, ethnomathematics as a field of research that studies mathematics in its relationship to the whole of cultural and social life, and the beginning of ethnomathematical research in Mozambique. (41 references) (MKR)