| dc.description.abstract | The domination of “colonization shadow” may have reduced
the manifestation of young indigenous technologies and innovations
that with minimal value addition could help local communities overcome
many challenges. Rediscovery of these technologies can bring
about wealth and well-being to the local people who are also the inventors.
Some of these technologies have either been suppressed or picked
up by colonizers to the disadvantage of local inventors. This chapter
discusses the useful, locally found technological resources that have
not helped local communities but sometimes fetch millions of dollars
elsewhere. This knowledge is expected to bring about rediscovery and
decolonization so as to use the technologies to improve local lives. In
this aspect decolonization is necessary in many sectors of the economy
such as medicine which failed to take off from herbal- to industrial-based pharmaceutics. For instance, Kenya is the home of over 1100 species,
many have medicinal value. While such herds are condemned at “home”
as illegal herbal concoctions, they are glorified in other countries as medicine
and food supplements. Today, many Kenyans import such medicine
and food supplements at unaffordable prices as disease continues to
bite. The conclusion is that there are a number of unexploited indigenous
technologies and wealth that have remained dormant due to colonized
minds and with little decolonization they can earn wealth that can
increase wellness and improve livelihoods for the growing population in
Kenya. | en_US |
