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African Traditional Herbal Research Clinic Volume 8, Issue 7 NEWSLETTER August 2013 FEATURED ARTICLES THE MARCUS-GARVEY PAN AFRICAN INSTITUTE / UNIVERSITY (MPAI / MPAU) - A WORK IN PROGRESS Professor Babuuzibwa Luutu Executive Director (MPAI) and Vice Chancellor-designate (MPAU) Mbale, Uganda, East Africa THE MARCUS GARVEY PAN-AFRIKAN UNIVERSITY-MPAU was established with the goal of promoting a new kind of university, which can build on the experiences and in conformity with the need of drawing on African knowledge heritage, create an institution, which stands on “Two Pillars” with one pillar in the communities as centres of research and knowledge production, and the other pillar at the University Campus where this knowledge will be analysed, systemised, mainstreamed, and disseminated to a wider global community. Therefore the vision of the Marcus Garvey Pan- Afrikan University is to link Afrikan communities as depositories of African culture and knowledge with the University for the Application of field and theoretical research collaboration. MPAU will therefore be dedicated to the epistemological rediscovery and research based on that epistemology aimed at locating, promoting, managing and developing of Afrikan knowledge and wisdom, so that they can become part and parcel of the global knowledge systems in the process of economic selfemancipation. This is one of the inspirations MPAU wishes to draw as one of the rich heritages of the African people in order to provide the students, adult learners and the -12- Traditional African Clinic August 2013 communities with a space in which they can learn as well as carry out research for analysis into dissertations and thesis, after having interacted and been trained by their teachers, community experts, and consultants at the University Campus along the community knowledge sites. The University will provide students with the facilities necessary for expanding on their existing knowledge and, with their teachers and indigenous knowledge experts in the community expand on that knowledge. Such a process will enable them to carry out theoretical formulations and reflections in an interdisciplinary, plural-disciplinary and transdisciplinary manner as well as comparative manner. The ultimate objective will be to generate knowledge not only for its own sake but for the sake of utilising it in society by doing and acting to transform their lives through interaction with the wider world and humanity in the process of African recovery and rebirth. Vision MPAU will be linked to African communities as depositories of African Culture and knowledge and will be dedicated to the epistemological rediscovery, relocation, promotion, management and development of African indigenous knowledge and wisdom so they can become part and parcel of the global knowledge systems and recognized as such. Concerns will include but not Continued on page 13
Continued from page 12 – The Marcus-Garvey Pan- African Institute /University (MPAI / MPAU) - A Work in Progress be limited to, indigenous agricultural, pastoral, fishing, metallurgical, meteorological and medical knowledge, historical and cultural accounts, cosmological and ethical wisdom. Mission Based on this vision, MPAU will develop a structure of knowledge, production, documentation and dissemination that stands on two pillars namely the Campus and Community sites of knowledge. Objectives (a) undertake research in areas of Afrikan Knowledge and Wisdom and profile such knowledge into a global research agenda (b) recover the feminine principle and document Afrikan Women’s knowledge from an African-cradle perspective (c) identify and strengthen community Sites of Knowledge as one of the pillars of the University (d) recruit researchers to undertake research on a new epistemological basis with(in) Community Sites of Knowledge and link them with other institutions of higher learning so that their research findings can be exposed to peer review and recognition (e) link some of the research activities to the university’s own staff development and training programmes (f) ensure that research findings are shared with the communities from which the knowledge was derived including documenting them in their respective languages (g) utilize the results of the research to develop curricula and create a new epistemology that can mainstream Afrikan Knowledge and Wisdom (h) document all materials obtained through research both at the Community Sites of Knowledge and at the Institute so that libraries can be built both at community levels and at the Institute (i) in collaboration with other institutions, develop ICT projects that can link rural communities to institutions of higher learning, secondary schools, primary schools, hospitals, spiritual and health centers for purposes of e-learning and e-health for the rural communities (j) publish the results of the research in the form of textbooks, monographs and booklets that can be used in kindergartens, primary and secondary schools as well as institutions of higher learning, so that these materials can become the basis of developing both a school and University system based on Afrikan Knowledge Systems (k) at some stage, through affiliations offer courses on Afrikan indigenous knowledge and wisdom at diploma or degree levels with the existing institutions of higher learning in Uganda and elsewhere in Africa as well as globally leading to joint degree awards (l) build a new model of the restorative economy based on research, innovation, learning and doing with Community Sites Knowledge as sites of production and exchange, and vice versa (m) raise resources for self-sustainability of the institution (n) build up collaborations and partnerships with other institutions both locally and globally in order to promote the above objectives (o) encourage and facilitate the use and terminological development of native African languages as media of instruction and intellectual discourse at all levels CORE PRINCIPLES OF MPAI-MPAU MPAU stands by the following principles, which are drawn from the African historical experience and heritages, which Africans have achieved through interactions with other communities throughout its history: • The Principle of MAAT of balance and Connective Justice; • The Principle of Restoration and harmony in the community; • The Principle that the African Community is dynamic; • The Principle of sovereignty, democracy, and full participation • Principle of self reliance and interdependence; • Principle of reciprocity and solidarity; • The Principle of Honesty and Uprightedness; and • The Principle of Transparency and Accountability The new transdisciplinary approach is based on Afrikology that removes strict boundaries between academic disciplines. Such an approach aims to work with rural and urban communities in the areas of expertise they possess. To access their inherit knowledge through research and teaching, and will necessitate the creation of appropriate protocols that can enable the Institute / University to establish an ethical relationship between the Institute, the researchers and the custodians of knowledge Continued on page 14 -13- Traditional African Clinic August 2013
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