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Accepted Paper: E29-02. To panel E29.

Title of paper:

Author:

Olawale Akinrinde (Nigerian Defence Academy).

Long abstract paper:
The study examines the contending positions and impacts of Globalism and Localism on Local Knowledge System in Africa. Relying on insights and facts from indigenous local settlements in Africa, this study discovers how the forces of globalism are affecting the development of indigenous knowledge production. Thanks to the globalization process, information and knowledge system have thus been taken over the entire world.

Keywords: Globalism, Localism, Knowledge Production System, Africa.