2015/01/01 by Mwalimu J. Shujaa, Kenya J. Shujaa · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · #Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation
paper · doi:10.4135/9781483346373
openalex publication_date 2015/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/14
Our conceptual framework holds, first, that culture is a form of self-knowledge and knowledge about self in the world as transmitted from one person to another. Second, that African people continuously create their own cultural history. Third, that African descended people living outside of Africa are also contributors to and participate in the creation of African cultural history. This encyclopedia's entries deal with both traditions traceable to an African origin and ongoing practices and processes through which African culture continues to be created and formed