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Decolonise science and development ideas or risk failure – Scholars at Global Value Summit in Jirapa
The three-day international summit, running from September 7 to 9, 2026, is being hosted in collaboration with the University of Business and Integrated Development Studies (UBIDS) under the theme, “Indigenous Values and Social Change,” alongside a sub-theme focusing on “African Feminisms and Indigenous Values in Precarious Global Movements.
The participants have issued a call to dismantle Western epistemic hegemony and embed development policies within indigenous African knowledge systems.“If there is a polygamous system for men, African colleagues at this conference have rightly asked why women shouldn’t be equally free to choose more than one husband.
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