NEW PUBLICATION - Imagining Vernacular Histories: Essays in Honor of Toyin Falola
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Bola Sotunsa
Sep 16, 2020, 6:50:45 AM9/16/20
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Dear esteemed colleagues,
We trust you are coping well in this age of the new normal
We are delighted to inform you that a new edited volume centering on the scholarship on Prof. Toyin Falola titled Imagining Vernacular Histories: Essays in Honor of Toyin Falola has been published by Roman and Littlefield.
This book is a product of the scholarly gathering at the biennial conference of African Studies Association United Kingdom held in Birmingham in September 2018. 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.
https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781786614612/Imagining-Vernacular-Histories-Essays-in-Honor-of-Toyin-Falola
We hope you will feel inspired to grab your copy or order it to your university libraries.
This is a small tribute in honor of the continued mentorship of Prof. Falola in our respective intellectual journeys.
We sincerely hope to receive your feedback and reviews on the publication.
Very best,
Bola and Abikal
Mobolanle Ebunoluwa SOTUNSA (Ph.D)
Professor of African Oral Literature and Gender Studies,
Department of Languages and Literary Studies,
Babcock University.
&
Director,
Centre for Open Distance and e-Learning (CODeL),
Babcock University.
Official e-mail: sotu...@babcock.edu.ng
Phone: +234-706-094-7611
We trust you are coping well in this age of the new normal
We are delighted to inform you that a new edited volume centering on the scholarship on Prof. Toyin Falola titled Imagining Vernacular Histories: Essays in Honor of Toyin Falola has been published by Roman and Littlefield.
This book is a product of the scholarly gathering at the biennial conference of African Studies Association United Kingdom held in Birmingham in September 2018. 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.
https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781786614612/Imagining-Vernacular-Histories-Essays-in-Honor-of-Toyin-Falola
We hope you will feel inspired to grab your copy or order it to your university libraries.
This is a small tribute in honor of the continued mentorship of Prof. Falola in our respective intellectual journeys.
We sincerely hope to receive your feedback and reviews on the publication.
Very best,
Bola and Abikal
Mobolanle Ebunoluwa SOTUNSA (Ph.D)
Professor of African Oral Literature and Gender Studies,
Department of Languages and Literary Studies,
Babcock University.
&
Director,
Centre for Open Distance and e-Learning (CODeL),
Babcock University.
Official e-mail: sotu...@babcock.edu.ng
Phone: +234-706-094-7611
Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju
Sep 16, 2020, 12:54:19 PM9/16/20
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wow.
magnificent effort
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Michael Afolayan
Sep 16, 2020, 1:08:37 PM9/16/20
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Right peg in the right hole. Good job, folks!
MOA
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OLAYINKA AGBETUYI
Sep 16, 2020, 3:47:07 PM9/16/20
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Timely publication on re-Africanizing historiography.
Congratulations to Contributors, editors and honoree.
OAA
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More info Right peg in the right hole. Good job, folks!
MOA
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Bayo Omolola
Sep 16, 2020, 10:58:59 PM9/16/20
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Dundun at work again,
The melody sounds as usual but more distinct.
Ayan, the drummer that masters his language,
In numbers their voices talk about his premises
As they dismiss something and admit the drummer's world views
With their own lenses or perhaps through his "gugu"
Who understands "kongi"?
They speak to express their thoughts.
Dundun at its work again,
At work,their legs take a leap repeatedly and move
To follow the sound of dundun,
The native drum that never stops its speech
Dundun never stops to mirror visible and invisible concepts -
Living and imagined:
All in one package,
The dundun rolls out its messages again!
And the drummer's flagrant sweat
On their bodies forms the wet
That seems as a net
For they act in a forum within a tent
Of great ideas.
And the talking dundun says more
To put them on their toes!
The "mosquetos" out of the way,
Dundun says,
Even the parrot, the master of human voices
Has its master!
Dundun is not cagged,
So all over the voice of dundun attracts
Distracts,
And generates new voices
Talking and anchoring on dundun.
The master of all that can be said with just a hold on the string.
The laborus fan,
That at glance blows away the wings of mosquitoes.
The ring that brings together dancers with diverse body reactions -
All with their legs to the rhythm of the drum.
All I know,
That I know,
That I know,
Am the drum continues to talk.
All I know,
That I know,
That I know,
As the eyes of the drum sees further
The voice of the drum making other voices to talk
And talk,
And talk,
As the drum does its work endlesly,
As the world moves, so the the drum moves and talks clearly and critically.
Dundun, the voice that raises other voices,
The thinker that makes others to think.
Does everybody understand the language of dundun.
Perhaps Adebayo Faleti,
The master poet is awake somewhere,
Somewhere to look back and ask,
Is the drum like the same drum?
Is the drummer like the same drummer in "Onibode Lalupon"?
This drum talks everywhere -home and abroad,
The digital drum that talks in the digital age,
The drum that changes from manual to electronic,
And makes its melody connects the other side of the Atlantic with the diaspora,
Can someone tell Toyin Falola to come here and say the secret of the drum
Hanging on his shoulder?
The drum that yields and make other drums and drummers to emerge.
Only the drummer can understand the language of the drum says the poet in reference.
Note: Spontaneously written -raw, awaiting re-cooking when NEPA brings the light again. Abela is scarce now.
-Bayo Omolola
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Bayo Omolola
Sep 16, 2020, 11:25:54 PM9/16/20
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Congratulation on the new publication, all those involved in making it possible!
Bayo Omolola
Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju
Sep 17, 2020, 4:36:33 AM9/17/20
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Magnificent celebration, Bayo Oolola.
toyin
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Gloria Chuku
Sep 17, 2020, 9:10:07 AM9/17/20
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Congratulations!
GC
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tunde jaiyeoba
Sep 26, 2020, 8:45:42 AM9/26/20
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Exciting !!!
Congratulations for the progress made and to TF !!!
Babatunde JAIYEOBA
Prof. E. Babatunde JAIYEOBA PhD
Head, Department of Architecture
Faculty of Environmental Design and Management
Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria
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