Abstract
Africa’s significant problem is economic. While this seems to ostensibly be only in terms of finance, it rather extends beyond that and permeates the process of knowledge generation. Globalization and the infusion of Western culture through Western education has afflicted Africa’s economy with a seemingly incurable malady. However, there is the neglect of localization, whereas, in the real sense, localization breeds globalization, because there can be no globalization without localization. The African present condition undermines the complementariness of localization and globalization. African indigenous knowledge seems to be pivotal and thus necessary to play a significant (positive) role in securing Africa’s participation in the knowledge economy of the twenty-first century. Considering that education is critically oriented and Africa is replete with rich cultural values; Afrocentric curriculum and decolonized pedagogy will eventually facilitate the accomplishment of the stated aim (knowledge economy) since it is critically based; and Africa is endowed with rich cultural values that suffice its aplomb stature such that if the decoloniality of western education is embraced and Afrocentric curriculum is engaged and integrated, Africa will key into the knowledge economy in this 21st Century.
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