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In the season 5 premiere of Asase Ba, I talk about indigenous knowledge and traditional education in Ghana. I discuss the differences between Western education and African indigenous knowledge systems, pre-colonial education in Ghana, benefits of traditional education, what it looks like today and more!

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TRANSCRIPT

https://www.asaseba.com/podcast/season-5/episode-1-indigenous-knowledge-in-ghana

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HOST

This podcast is produced, edited and hosted by Ghanaian Canadian Michelle (pronouns: she/her). She is also the creator of the theme music.

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Kwamena-Poh, M. A. (1975). The Traditional Informal System of Education In Pre-colonial Ghana. Pr\\xe9sence Africaine, 95, 269\\u2013283. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/24349566

Oyewum, O. (2016). Visualizing the Body: Western Theories and African Subjects. In The invention of women: Making an African sense of western gender discourses (pp. 1\\u201330).\\xa0 University of Minnesota Press.\\xa0

Pinto, R. (2019). The Effect of Western Formal Education on the Ghanaian Educational System and Cultural Identity. The Journal of Negro Education, 88(1), 5\\u201316. https://doi.org/10.7709/jnegroeducation.88.1.0005

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U.S. Department of Labor. (2021). Women\'s Median Weekly Earnings by Educational Attainment, Race, and Hispanic or Latino Ethnicity. Retrieved from https://www.dol.gov/agencies/wb/data/earnings/Women-median-weekly-earnings-educational-attainment-race-Hispanic-ethnicity