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Title: | Science, Technology and Institutional Co-Operation in Africa: From Pre-Colonial to Colonial Science |
Author: | Teng-Zeng, Frank K. |
Year: | 2006 |
Periodical: | Eastern Africa Social Science Research Review (ISSN 1027-1775) |
Volume: | 22 |
Issue: | 1 |
Period: | January |
Pages: | 1-37 |
Language: | English |
Notes: | biblio. refs. |
Geographic term: | Africa |
Subjects: | science and technology scientific cooperation CCTA Bibliography/Research History and Exploration Development and Technology colonialism history Science and civilization Technology and civilization Cooperation |
External link: | http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/eastern_africa_social_science_research_review/v022/22.1teng-zeng.pdf |
Abstract: | This paper outlines the stages of development of science and technology in Africa, focusing on the precolonial and colonial periods. For the precolonial phase, not much is known on the subject, because this period was characterized by an almost complete absence of any attempt to deliberately manage the production, storage and dissemination of knowledge. The colonial phase was marked by an interest in agriculture, in particular crops mainly for export, mineral exploration and exploitation, and developments in tropical medicine. The colonial period further saw the genesis of interterritorial cooperation and therefore regional institutions in the various territories under the control of the British, French, Portuguese and Belgians. The gaining of political independence in most of the colonial territories, however, witnessed the collapse or nationalization of the regional interterritorial institutions at the subregional and continental levels. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [ASC Leiden abstract] |