Shadreck Chirikure: 4 books
by D. A. Masolo, Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga, Shadreck Chirikure
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
Explorations of science, technology, and innovation in Africa not as the product of “technology transfer” from elsewhere but as the working of African knowledge.
In the STI literature, Africa has often been regarded as a recipient of science, technology, and innovation rather than a maker...
Emergence of Systems of Innovation in South(ern) Africa:
Long Histories and Contemporary Debates
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
This book traces the history of innovations from precolonial times and examines precolonial settlements in southern Africa such as Mapungubwe in LImpopo Province, Bokoni in Mpumalanga Province, and Msuluzi in KwaZulu-Natal Province from the perspective of their indigenous technological efforts to...
Mapungubwe Reconsidered: A Living Legacy
Exploring Beyond the Rise and Decline of the Mapungubwe State
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
The Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape is one of the profound treasures of southern Africa's social and archaeological history, appropriately declared a World Heritage Site by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) in 2003. Contained within this landscape is indispensable...
Metals in Past Societies
A Global Perspective on Indigenous African Metallurgy
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
This book seeks to communicate to both a global and local audience, the key attributes of pre-industrial African metallurgy such as technological variation across space and time, methods of mining and extractive metallurgy and the fabrication of metal objects. These processes were transformative...