This is a comprehensive study and erudite description of the struggle of
African Indigenous Knowledge Systems in an Age of Globalization, using
in particular eighty-four children's traditional games in south-eastern
Zimbabwe. The book is an informative and interesting anthropological
account of rare African children's games at the risk of disappearing
under globalization. The virtue of the book does not only lie in its
modest philosophical questioning of those knowledge forms that consider
themselves as superior to others, but in its laudable, healthy
appreciation of the creative art forms of traditional literature that
features in genres such as endangered children's traditional games. The
book is a clarion call to Africans and the world beyond to come to the
rescue of relegated and marginalized African creativity in the interest
of future generations.