Marginalized Knowledge: An Agenda for Indigenous Knowledge Development and Integration with Other Forms of Knowledge

FIGURE 4: PARTICIPATION IN RECREATION ACTIVITIES

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IGURE 5: PARTICIPATION IN RECREATION ACTIVITIES:

(GENDER)
The above figure indicates that the number of males who participate in vigorous physical involving recreation activities is higher than among females. These recreation activities appear to be soccer, karate, cricket, rugby and boxing. On the other extreme females in Figure 4 appear to dominate males in recreation activities that are fundamentally encouraging socialisation. These recreation activities are singing, dancing and park visiting. The number of females who patronises the afore mentioned recreation activities ranges between 20 percent and 43 percent.
From Figure 5 above it is noticed that the recreation activities that appeal to the age group 15 to 17 and 18 to 22 are more or less the same. These recreation activities are soccer, television watching, reading, singing, park visiting, dancing and basketball. The afore mentioned recreation activities account for 10 to 45 percent in terms of patronage from these age groups. Soccer in the age groups 15 to 17 and 18 to 22 years appears to be topping the list. The only recreation activity that appears to be receiving attention to one age with the exclusion of the other is chess playing. Chess playing enjoys of 12% from the age group 18 to 22 years, while in the age group 15 to 17 the patronage is far below 10 percent. Soccer in age group 15 to 17 is the sport that seems to be more popular and as a result this age group leads the other age groups when it comes to soccer patronage.

From Figure 5 it also appears the age group 12 to 14 years is the most involved group in recreation activities. Although in this age group not a single recreation activity appear to be patronised by more than 40 percent, the age group appears to engaged in multi-faceted recreation activities. The recreation activities that appear to be popular by scoring attracting 10 percent and more participants from the respondents of this age group are tennis, athletics, karate, netball, singing, reading, television watching and soccer. While soccer in the age groups 15 to 17 and 18 to 22 years is topping the list, it appears that the popular recreation activity in the age group 12 to 14 years is television watching. Television watching accounts for 36 percent patronage from this age group.