Toward an Afro-Centric Indigenous HCI Paradigm

Current HCI paradigms are deeply rooted in a western epistemology which attests its partiality and bias its embedded assumptions, values, definitions, techniques and derived frameworks and models.Thus created between local cultures and HCI principles require us to pursue a more critical research within an indigenous epistemology. In this paper we present an Afro-centric paradigm, as by African scholars, as an alternative perspective to guide interaction design in a situated in Africa and promote the reframing of HCI. We illustrate a practical realization of this shift within our own community driven designin Southern Africa.