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ABSTRACT

Natural Science as a field of expertise is dominated by Western foreign individual names. Names like Newton, Galileo, Leibniz, Kant, Descartes, Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg and so on are replete in the enterprise of science. This can be explained from the angle that science is a unique creation of the West and it has to do with an attitude as well as a disposition to enquiry that long develop by the West as a system of preserving their thoughts in written form. This position as well as persuasion holds enormous implications for Africans. The study interrogates two fundamental positions: the first is, “is the Western mind carved out for technological enquiries such as science by nature”? Secondly, “what can Africa do to becoming a player in the enterprise of science despite arriving late to the scene”? This study, employing the method of historical and critical historical analysis examines science and by extension, technology as a Western creation and the possibility of decolonizing it for Africa’s benefit. The decolonization of science and technology in this instance is not to recreate science but to provide a framework where Africans can engage in and with their own findings in their environment for the development of the continent and its people. The goal of this position is informed by the need to make Africans less dependent on the West for their scientific and technological needs.