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Bringing Cultural Festivals Into Lecture Rooms: Ndau Festival of the Arts and Higher Education in Zimbabwe
Abstract
This chapter assesses the possibilities of bringing cultural festivals, particularly the Ndau Festival of the Arts into the lecture room with an intent to reclaim, repossess and reaffirm the local people's indigenous knowledge and make it part of curriculum for higher education in Zimbabwe. The chapter utilised the postcolonial lens and the phenomenological method, where participant observation, key informant interviews and review of related literature were adopted for data collection. The study revealed that it is, indeed, possible to have the lecture rooms graced by indigenous knowledge holders who can share immense indigenous knowledge but have never been in the corridors of higher institutions of teaching and learning. The chapter is a practical clarion response to the wide discourses of indigenizing higher education in Africa where academia and indigenous knowledge holders can share slots and notes in the teaching and learning processes of higher education.
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