THE “TICAS DA MATEMA” OF SOME AFRICAN ETHNICS: SUPPORT FOR THE DECOLONIALITY OF KNOWLEDGE
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Reviewing modern epistemologies is posed as a theoretical and political challenge to understand the hybridity of the world, the obliteration of voices still hoarse today in the face of the invisibility of knowledges, deeds and worldviews denied from a given knowledge as for few. In this sense beginning reflecting on this mathematics that is in the classroom to next affirm the importance of the decoliality of the knowledge orchestrated by both Fanon and Mignolo, with the African episteme for a non-Eurocentric education of Gerdes. I choose here, the History of Mathematics in Africa: Numbers and Numerals; representation of the numbering system and operations of various ethnic groups in order to draw attention to other ways of thinking mathematically from the "southern knowledge" of Boaventura. Resinificating contents, in order to break calcified excreting paradigms in the production of the hidden face of modernity - coloniality and unveiled in ethnomathematics.
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