Abstract:

In a world dominated by the scientific and technological prowesses of western cultures, the African indigenous knowledge (AIK) seems to many as unscientific delusory (Ani,2013) and as no more than a bunch of magical beliefs (Mahaniah, 1989). It is,however, possible to prove that this perception of the Black culture is wrong.The naturualized nature of indigenous research displays the major debates of the  proponents of AIK as well as the critiques, purposes to expose the naturalized epistemology of AIK;the study of the nature of the African precolonial science and its difference from the western empirical-rational science.