Make indigenous knowledge systems (IKS) accessible to the youths

Guest column: Peter Makwanya

The era of knowledge banks and community libraries which were repositories of indigenous knowledge systems should be demystified and make the knowledge available to the youths for sustainable development. Orienting the youths into IKS practices is not taking them back to time immemorial, removing them from their trendy lifestyles, and replacing them with animal skins or making them traditional healers or ancestors.

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