摘要：Across the globe, the environmental discourses on climate change and weather forecasting
continue to preoccupy scholars and policy planners alike. Like other regions of the world, Africa
is a victim of climate change that emanates from global warming. It has been noted that global
warming has a strong bearing on natural ecosystems whose ripple effects ultimately affect
humanity in several complicated socio-economic ways. Throughout generations, humanity has
tried to control climate in order to serve and save its needs. Nevertheless, despite the
technological advances in the use of modern scientific equipment to predict and manipulate
weather, the study posits that the scientific methods of weather forecasting are flawed, to some
extent. It should not be forgotten that from time immemorial, indigenous Africans relied very
much on close observations on environmental phenomena in regards to weather forecasting.
Drawing from the indigenous Shona approaches to weather forecasting in Zimbabwe, the study
argues that Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKSs) based on observing natural phenomena and
celestial objects have helped to predict the imminence of the agricultural season and determine
the patterns of the climate changes with a high degree of reliability. Therefore, the aim of the
paper is to expose the Shona indigenous techniques of forecasting weather. In our conviction, it
is necessary to employ the complementary role of the indigenous methods of weather forecasting
and blend with those modern scientific techniques.
