Africa remains a contested domain geographically and academically. In substance, Africa does not necessarily mean the same thing to everyone. The same applies to Africa as an object of study. Following the scramble for Africa, the continent experienced an unfortunate incursion and distortion of its indigenous knowledge. With the incorporation of the continent into the western capitalist world and academy, most of what is African is lost. Today, it is difficult for Africa to keep pace with its home grown technologies. It is even more difficult to ask the West, as a show of charity, to transfer its technologies to Africa. But since knowledge, whether indigenous or western, has some utilitarian values, it is essential to address the African socio-economic problems through a knowledge driven economy. There is the need for Africa to be industrialized. This study recommends the Japan�s model that combined an indigenous knowledge system with the Western scientific discoveries to Africa