Toyin Falola and African Epistemologies
Title | Toyin Falola and African Epistemologies PDF eBook |
Author | A. Bangura |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 459 |
Release | 2015-02-11 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1137492708 |
While there are five important festschriften on Toyin Falola and his work, this book fulfills the need for a single-authored volume that can be useful as a textbook. I develop clearly articulated rubrics and overarching concepts as the foundational basis for analyzing Falola's work.
Decolonizing African Knowledge
Title | Decolonizing African Knowledge PDF eBook |
Author | Toyin Falola |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 535 |
Release | 2022-07-14 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1316511235 |
Uses textual and visual materials on the 'Self' to understand how African ways of thinking shape the nature of societies.
Decolonizing African Studies
Title | Decolonizing African Studies PDF eBook |
Author | Toyin Falola |
Publisher | Boydell & Brewer |
Pages | 691 |
Release | 2022 |
Genre | Africa |
ISBN | 1648250270 |
Introduction: The Decolonial Moments -- Epistemologies and Methodologies -- Decoloniality and Decolonizing Knowledge -- Eurocentrism and Intellectual Imperialism -- Epistemologies of Intellectual Liberation -- Decolonizing Knowledge in Africa -- Decolonizing Research Methodology -- Oral Tradition: Cultural Analysis and Epistemic Value -- Agencies and Voices -- Voices of Decolonization -- Voices of Decoloniality -- Decoloniality: A Critique -- Women's Voices on Decolonization -- Empowering Marginal Voices: LGBTQ and African Studies -- Intellectual Spaces -- Decolonizing the African Academy -- Decolonizing Knowledge Through Language -- Decolonizing of African Literature -- Identity and the African Feminist Writers -- Decolonizing African Aesthetics -- Decolonizing African History -- Decolonizing Africa Religion -- Decolonizing African Philosophy -- African Futurism.
Pathways to Alternative Epistemologies in Africa
Title | Pathways to Alternative Epistemologies in Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Adeshina Afolayan |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 246 |
Release | 2021-01-04 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 303060652X |
This volume investigates alternative epistemological pathways by which knowledge production in Africa can proceed. The contributors, using different intellectual dynamics, explore the existing epistemological dominance of the West—from architecture to gender discourse, from environmental management to democratic governance—and offer distinct and unique arguments that challenge the denigration of the different and differing modes of knowing that the West considered “barbaric” and “primitive.” This volume therefore constitutes a minimal gesture that further contributes to the ongoing discourse on alternative modes of knowing in Africa.
Imagining Vernacular Histories
Title | Imagining Vernacular Histories PDF eBook |
Author | Mobolanle Ebunoluwa Sotunsa |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2020-08-17 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1786614626 |
Imagining Vernacular Histories is centered on the idea of engaging with indigenous African cosmologies that signal at pluriversality. In conversation with Toyin Falola’s reading of the African pluriverse and his exploration of the idea of “ritual archives,” the contributors to this volume rethink the historical archive in search of vernacular histories. Simultaneously, they recognize the contributions from various other disciplines in pluralizing the term vernacular. The book brings together a wide range of topics, such as reflections on African historiography; the relationship between memory, history and literature; gender relations; and the construction of historical archives. While appropriating Falola’s conception of vernacular histories, the contributors collectively argue that pluriversality and ritual archives can potentially rescue African historical and creative scholarship from the sustained practices of epistemicide. Simultaneously, Imagining Vernacular Histories focuses on the emerging interdisciplinary conversations on constructing the pluriverse as well as on the geopolitics of knowledge production. Through a critical appreciation of Falola’s engagement with the ideas of postcoloniality, decolonizing epistemologies, and pluriversality, this book locates his scholarship in relation to postcolonial theory emerging from the Global South.
Yoruba Gurus
Title | Yoruba Gurus PDF eBook |
Author | Toyin Falola |
Publisher | Africa World Press |
Pages | 336 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Intellectuals |
ISBN | 9780865436992 |
"Toyin Falola, one of the most prominent interpreters of Yoruba History, has written an outstanding and brilliant pioneer book that reveals valuable knowledge on African local historians. This is one of the most impressive books on the Yoruba in recent years and the best so far on Yoruba intellectual history. The range of coverage is extensive, the reading is stimulating, and the ideas are innovative. This is indeed a major contribution to historical knowledge that all students of African history will find especially useful. This original study will find itself in the list of the most important studies of the 20th century." -Julius O. Adekunle, Monmouth University
African Indigenous Knowledges in a Postcolonial World
Title | African Indigenous Knowledges in a Postcolonial World PDF eBook |
Author | Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 286 |
Release | 2020-11-29 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1000259803 |
This book argues that ancient and modern African indigenous knowledges remain key to Africa’s role in global capital, technological and knowledge development and to addressing her marginality and postcoloniality. The contributors engage the unresolved problematics of the historical and contemporary linkages between African knowledges and the African academy, and between African and global knowledges. The book relies on historical and comparative political analysis to explore the global context for the application of indigenous knowledges for tackling postcolonial challenges of knowledge production, conflict and migration, and women’s rights on the continent in transcontinental African contexts. Asserting the enduring potency of African indigenous knowledges for the transformation of policy, the African academy and the study of Africa in the global academy, this book will be of interest to scholars of African Studies, postcolonial studies and decolonisation and global affairs.