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Dear friends, welcome to today's episode of #navigatewithidy brought to you by @c_shepherds. Today, we have a special guest on the show in person of Prof Oritsejafor who will be joining Mr. @IdyEnang to discuss on the topic "Indigenous Knowledge Leadership."

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Indigenous knowledge (IK) is the value of knowledge that has been used over time, over centuries & centuries. They have been proven to be very successful & sustainable.

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Indigenous knowledge is not just unique to one particular cultural context, they are also very dynamic as you can find it being used in North-West America among the indigenous people.

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You will find it being used in south-west Asia like India and Bangladesh in various areas of development.

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Indigenous knowledge can also be used in places like Australia among the Aboriginal people.

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When you take a combination of indigenous knowledge, how it’s been used globally depending on the sector you want to talk about. It is so dynamic & so unique to dealing with developing issues in different contexts globally.

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Indigenous knowledge is the value of knowledge & practices that we have used over time.

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Before the advent of modernity, we have functioned adequately through the traditional kingdoms or traditional entities.

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The whole paradigm of indigenous knowledge will help us understand: what are the alternatives for us? How can we fix this problem of good governance & democratic ethos that is often missing in our environment today.

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Agricultural revolution, economic revolution and any change that needs to happen around the African continent sits within indigenous knowledge when you look at where we are today.

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Today, we have gone to import leadership styles, we’ve gone ahead to import paradigms, and so many others that we are beginning to de-emphasize what we have within the scope of African and where we are.

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Africa is a continent with massive resources & unbelievable dynamism in terms of ethnic cultural diversification but there is always that area of commonality.

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Our identities are somewhat different from one region to another but there are some shared values. But how come we cannot collapse these shared values into real good governance & leadership?

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From the individual to the macro level, how do we use indigenous knowledge to address some of the challenges we have?

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One of the challenges we find in our community with using indigenous knowledge is that it is tantamount to some other cultural imperialism where we have come to believe what belongs to the Western world is better than ours...

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...and to think that what is traditional is useless, and that modernity should surpass tradition.

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Some values need to be re-instituted through the family & our educational system needs to have a tweak in the curriculum, or perhaps revitalize some of the curriculum that was present in the past.

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Languages are being created everyday. Language is part of culture & if culture is not being static, if it is dynamic, then the dynamism in us should bridge that gap between the poor, the wealthy, literate & non-literate, and develop our own language

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The commonality & the homogeneity of the language itself may very well serve us.

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There is a collective responsibility that we all have when we talk about the issues of #leadership, #accountability, #transparency, & #accessibility are very important.

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@IdyEnang @LagosTalks913 Ethnicity is still a very profound variable when you are thinking about democracy & governance in Nigeria. Ethnicity is being supplanted by other national identities such as economic factors...

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Thank you to our special guest, Prof. Oritsejafor & to you our distinguished listeners for being a part of today's program. Join us on same station, @LagosTalks913 at 3PM on Thursday for another exciting hour with Mr. @IdyEnang

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