"Knowledge on Wheels": An Anticolonial and African Feminist Approach to Education in Ghana

• In Event: Equity, Curriculum, and Identity

Abstract

Following independence, Ghana has retained colonial educational structures and curriculum, which continuously malign Indigenous knowledge and practices and Indigenous Ghanaian women’s epistemologies. This qualitative paper draws on anti-colonial and African feminist theories, and a situated methodology to engage six (6) Indigenous Ghanaian women on how they conceptualize and use Indigenous knowledge in their work and how such knowledges can be centralized in educational and knowledge making spaces. The paper further highlights the rich possibilities that epistemologies from Indigenous women offer to address contemporary challenges and inequities in the educational system. Ultimately, the paper recommends the Adinkrahene and Apa Indigeneity frameworks as new ways to reinterpret Indigenous knowledge and indigeneity, decolonial practices in education, and women’s intellectual agency.

Author

• Phyllis Kyei Mensah, Miami University (OH)
  Presenting Author