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| INDIGENOUS
KNOWLEDGE (IK) RESEARCH PROGRAMME |
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This research programme aims at
producing knowledge about the organisation of the Nigerian society in the
pre-colonial era with a view to identifying those indigenous knowledge systems
which may be instrumental to the contemporary Nigerian society. The following
are the main research projects being undertaken under the IK research programme:
- Indigenous methods of controlling agricultural pests and diseases in selected
areas of Nigeria.
- Indigenous weaving technology in Nigeria.
- Indigenous selection of political leadership in Nigeria.
- Settlement planning in pre-colonial Nigeria.
- Traditional fiscal and monetary operation in Nigeria. |
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