Re-membering my ways of knowing and learning while ‘learning otherwise’

This article addresses the writer's internal conflict as an African woman who left the great continent in the hope of gaining knowledge at a large North-American university. The writer is faced with the dilemma of acquiring knowledge of Western origins as part of a doctoral programme in nursing, which rarely and scantly acknowledges that the writer, too, possesses unique knowledge. This dilemma has made the writer wonder about the ontological...