Africa development Vol. XXX, No.3, 2005

Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa
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Africa Development/Afrique et Développement

Vol. XXX, No. 3, 2005
Special Issue: All knowledge is first of all local knowledge

Guest Editors
Theophilus I. Okere, Chukwudi Anthony Njoku & René Devisch
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Articles

	All knowledge is first of all local knowledge: An introduction Theophilus I. Okere, Chukwudi Anthony Njoku & René Devisch Abstract	I
	Is there one science, Western science? Theophilus Okere Abstract	20
*African Mathematical Systems*
	Traditional Igbo numbering system Patrick Mathias C.Ogomaka Abstract	35
	Ethnomathematics, geometry and educational experience in Africa Paulus Gerdes Abstract	48
*African Health Systems*
	Domestication of medicinal plants in Southestern Nigeria A. E. Ibe and Martin I.Nwufo Abstract	66
	Understanding Igbo medicine practitioners Patrick Iroegbu Abstract	78
	Cultural modes of comprehending and healing insanity: The Yaka of DR Congo René Devisch Abstract	98
*African Arts*
	Subjectivity in servitude: The servant and indigenous family arrangement in written Igbo drama Frances N. Chukwukere Abstract	112
	I dance Ala Igbo (Poem) Chikwendu P. K. Anyanwu	130
Review Article/Revues de livres
	Spectralizing Bergson and the Dilemmas of Decolonization. A review of Messay Kebede, Africa’s Quest for a Philosophy of Decolonization, 2004. Sanya Osha	135
Book Reviews/Notes de lecture
	Richard Werbner, 2004, Reasonable Radicals and Citizenship in Botswana: The Public Anthropology of Kalanga Elites Onalenna Doo Selolwane.	143
	Uta Wehn de Montalvo, 2003, Mapping the Determinants of Spatial Data Sharing Yoichi Mine	145