Abstract in CiChewa Zolemba za mmunsimu ndi zotsatira kafukufuku wokhudza mavuto aza mbewu zomwe alimi amagwiritsa ntchito. Izi zikukhudza kwambiri kuonongera dala ukadaulo wa pambeu omwe makolo anthu adali nawo, kumanso mbeu zomwe timalima muchikhalidwe chathu asanabwere atsamunda. Kuwonongedwa kwa mbeu zachikhalidwe, kwatsatirana ndi kubwera kwa mbeu zochokera mmayiko ena (za hybrid) zomwe zikumapangidwa kuti zizicha msanga, komanso zopilira ku matenda, ng’amba, ndizina zotero. Mbeu zamakonozi zikumatengedwanso ngati zobweretsa zokolola zochuluka. Zolembedwa mmusimu zikuwonetsa kuti kubwera kwa misika ya mbeu zamakonozi kwachititsa kuti mbeu zomwe amalima makolo anthu ziyambe kusowa, osapezekanso. Mabvuto obwera chifukwa chakusowa kwa mbeu zomwe amalima makolo athuzi ndi monga: (1) Alimi achimmalawi akungodalira mayiko akunja kuti aziwagulitsa mbeu. Izi zachititsa kuti zakudya zizivuta kupezeka, chifukwa sionse amene angakwanitsa kugula ndikuzisamalira momwe zimafunikira. (2) Mbeu zobwerazi zasintha ndikuwononga chilengwedwe kuphatikiza mbeu zakonkuno ku Africa. Ife tikuona ngati kuti izi zachitika chifukwa chomangolandira zinthu za mayiko azungu, ndikumaziona ngati ndiye zopambana kusiya zakwathu kuno. Kaganizidwe kanthu kuno kumudzi katayika, tayamba kuonera za azungu. Abstract in English The chapter offers a philosophical investigation of the agro-epistemicide which refers to the systematic killing of Indigenous agricultural knowledge systems and especially of Indigenous seed systems through agricultural modernisation in Africa. Agro-epistemicide leads to the introduction of alien—i.e. hybrid and genetically modified [GM]—seed systems whose food crops are touted to be more productive, more disease- and pest-resistant, and more drought-tolerant, among other alleged advantages. It argues that the invasion and subsequent colonisation of the seed market by Western seed manufacturers and distributors has led to the slow death or extinction of Indigenous seed systems in Africa. Major problems arising from the wholesale adoption of hybrid and GM seed systems in Africa include: (1) peasant and small-scale farmers’ perpetual dependency on seed manufacturers and distributors who are profit-driven capitalists. It argues that these problems have led to the loss of food security as well as food sovereignty in Africa; (2) GM contamination, and hence destruction, of Africa’s biodiversity. We argue that these and other problems are reflective of (1) the uncritical assimilation of Western knowledge systems and practices in Africa, (2) problematic adoption of the capitalist philosophy in African nations.