Indigenous Knowledge as Resource to Sustain Self-Employment in Rural Development

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Author(s): Ladislaus M. Semali (Mwenge Catholic University, Tanzania)
Copyright: 2018
Pages: 17
Source title: Handbook of Research on Civic Engagement and Social Change in Contemporary Society
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Susheel Chhabra (Periyar Management and Computer College, India)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-4197-4.ch008

Keywords: Civic Engagement & Social Justice / Information Science Reference / Social Sciences & Humanities / Sociology

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This chapter explores the ways African rural youths and women seek opportunities to innovate and adapt indigenous knowledge as a locally developed resource of community resilience in the attempt to reduce household poverty. The two case groups discussed in this chapter engaged in self-employment enterprises. They drew upon their ecological and cultural knowledge, enabling themselves through shoestring budgets to sustain their livelihood and community wellbeing. The chapter shows that unemployment affects young people and rural women from all occupations and ethnic groups, a situation that puts them in a vulnerable and precarious living condition. The analysis showed that for most of youth found on the Tanzania's streets and urban municipalities, a secondary education has not proven useful in practical knowledge, skills, values or attitudes necessary to enter the world of work or to become self-employed.

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