Wariboko's New Book: The Split Time

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Nimi Wariboko

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Aug 3, 2022, 6:26:33 AM8/3/22
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Dear Colleagues:

 

Good news. My most recent book is out. It came out on August 1, 2022. I am glad to bring it to your notice. This volume completes the trilogy on my philosophy of split, ontological incompleteness as played out in the divine, economy, and time. The first volume, The Split God: Pentecostalism and Critical Theory came out in 2018 and second, The Split Economy: Saint Paul Goes to Wall Street came out in 2020.  All three rigorously and vigorously push for a view of social ethics that accents human flourishing for all. The first deals with African Pentecostals’ conception of a “fractured” God; the second deals with the global financial system and its inequities, and the third one offers a construct of philosophy of Africa’s economic development that is grounded in indigenous African thought/worldview.  

 

Thanks,

 

Nimi Wariboko

 

 

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AFRICAN Studies / Philosophy     

 

Aims to construct an economic philosophy from indigenous African thought.

 

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The quest for economic development is arguably the most frustrating and tragic dimension of human existence in Africa. As its primary task, The Split Time constructs an economic philosophy from a tradition of thought that is indigenous to Africa, arguing that there are long-neglected resources within African philosophy to guide economic policymakers toward creating an African economy that can sustain human flourishing. Exploring notions of destiny, temporality, and desire, Nimi Wariboko constructs an economic-philosophical framework to rethink solutions to the vexing problem of economic development in Africa. He also provides a robust social-ethical perspective in which the basic aspects of economic life—the agential (accounts of human agency, telos), the circumstantial (material/social context), and the affective (to feel appropriately what matters to a people in an economy or their desire for human flourishing)—come together to fire social imagination about development policies for the common good.

Nimi Wariboko is Walter G. Muelder Professor of Social Ethics at Boston University. He is the author of The Split Economy: Saint Paul Goes to Wall Street and The Split God: Pentecostalism and Critical Theory, both also published by SUNY Press. He has also worked as an investment banker on Wall Street and in Lagos, Nigeria.

Reviews

"Rigorously researched, The Split Time boldly poses urgent questions about the continued absence of economic development in a Nigerian African context. Nimi Wariboko's inimitable style—direct, logical, rhythmic, and compelling—enhances his perceptive mobilization of resources from 'indigenous economic philosophy.' The book's broad interdisciplinarity is a particular strength, advancing scholarship in interrelated fields ranging from theology and psychology to African studies." — Ebenezer Obadare, author of Pentecostal Republic: Religion and the Struggle for State Power in Nigeria

"Wariboko's compelling prescription for Africa's long-running underdevelopment syndrome centers on indigenous ideology and practices, allowing readers to savor a uniquely native system for bringing the African people to the much desired but elusive economic paradise." — Raphael Chijioke Njoku, author of West African Masking Traditions and Diaspora Masquerade Carnivals: History, Memory, and Transnationalism

 

State University of New York Press

www.sunypress.edu

August 2022 / 246 pages

ISBN 978-1-4384-8979-7

https://sunypress.edu/Books/T/The-Split-Time

 

Harrow, Kenneth

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Aug 3, 2022, 6:34:53 AM8/3/22
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congratulations nimi. well done!! looking forward to reading your work, especially on time.
ken

kenneth harrow

professor emeritus

dept of english

michigan state university

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Toyin Falola

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Aug 3, 2022, 6:34:53 AM8/3/22
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Congratulations, once again, for a grandiose conception.
The cover suggests a cyclical cosmos, unbound, calmness in a world that does not drift.
Is this the end goal?
TF

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On Aug 3, 2022, at 11:26 AM, Nimi Wariboko <nimi...@msn.com> wrote:



Dear Colleagues:

 

Good news. My most recent book is out. It came out on August 1, 2022. I am glad to bring it to your notice. This volume completes the trilogy on my philosophy of split, ontological incompleteness as played out in the divine, economy, and time. The first volume, The Split God: Pentecostalism and Critical Theory came out in 2018 and second, The Split Economy: Saint Paul Goes to Wall Street came out in 2020.  All three rigorously and vigorously push for a view of social ethics that accents human flourishing for all. The first deals with African Pentecostals’ conception of a “fractured” God; the second deals with the global financial system and its inequities, and the third one offers a construct of philosophy of Africa’s economic development that is grounded in indigenous African thought/worldview.  

 

Thanks,

 

Nimi Wariboko

 

 

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Michael Afolayan

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Aug 3, 2022, 7:17:41 AM8/3/22
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Huge congratulations, Nimi! Your versatility is laudable. May this and your other books further broaden our horizon of knowledge, quench our thirst and satisfy our hunger for spirituality and secular desires. May your pen never go dry!

MOA







On Wednesday, August 3, 2022 at 05:26:34 AM CDT, Nimi Wariboko <nimi...@msn.com> wrote:


Dear Colleagues:

 

Good news. My most recent book is out. It came out on August 1, 2022. I am glad to bring it to your notice. This volume completes the trilogy on my philosophy of split, ontological incompleteness as played out in the divine, economy, and time. The first volume, The Split God: Pentecostalism and Critical Theory came out in 2018 and second, The Split Economy: Saint Paul Goes to Wall Street came out in 2020.  All three rigorously and vigorously push for a view of social ethics that accents human flourishing for all. The first deals with African Pentecostals’ conception of a “fractured” God; the second deals with the global financial system and its inequities, and the third one offers a construct of philosophy of Africa’s economic development that is grounded in indigenous African thought/worldview.  

 

Thanks,

 

Nimi Wariboko

 

 

Logo, company nameDescription automatically generated

 

 

 

AFRICAN Studies / Philosophy     

 

Aims to construct an economic philosophy from indigenous African thought.

 

Description

The quest for economic development is arguably the most frustrating and tragic dimension of human existence in Africa. As its primary task, The Split Time constructs an economic philosophy from a tradition of thought that is indigenous to Africa, arguing that there are long-neglected resources within African philosophy to guide economic policymakers toward creating an African economy that can sustain human flourishing. Exploring notions of destiny, temporality, and desire, Nimi Wariboko constructs an economic-philosophical framework to rethink solutions to the vexing problem of economic development in Africa. He also provides a robust social-ethical perspective in which the basic aspects of economic life—the agential (accounts of human agency, telos), the circumstantial (material/social context), and the affective (to feel appropriately what matters to a people in an economy or their desire for human flourishing)—come together to fire social imagination about development policies for the common good.

Nimi Wariboko is Walter G. Muelder Professor of Social Ethics at Boston University. He is the author of The Split Economy: Saint Paul Goes to Wall Street and The Split God: Pentecostalism and Critical Theory, both also published by SUNY Press. He has also worked as an investment banker on Wall Street and in Lagos, Nigeria.

Reviews

"Rigorously researched, The Split Time boldly poses urgent questions about the continued absence of economic development in a Nigerian African context. Nimi Wariboko's inimitable style—direct, logical, rhythmic, and compelling—enhances his perceptive mobilization of resources from 'indigenous economic philosophy.' The book's broad interdisciplinarity is a particular strength, advancing scholarship in interrelated fields ranging from theology and psychology to African studies." — Ebenezer Obadare, author of Pentecostal Republic: Religion and the Struggle for State Power in Nigeria

"Wariboko's compelling prescription for Africa's long-running underdevelopment syndrome centers on indigenous ideology and practices, allowing readers to savor a uniquely native system for bringing the African people to the much desired but elusive economic paradise." — Raphael Chijioke Njoku, author of West African Masking Traditions and Diaspora Masquerade Carnivals: History, Memory, and Transnationalism

 

State University of New York Press

www.sunypress.edu

August 2022 / 246 pages

ISBN 978-1-4384-8979-7

https://sunypress.edu/Books/T/The-Split-Time

 

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Moses Ochonu

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Aug 3, 2022, 7:17:41 AM8/3/22
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Huge congratulations, Nimi, on this excellent and compelling climax to the trilogy. I will be actively engaging with this volume as it is the one that most directly relates to my scholarly and intellectual interests. The world of African studies and its constitutive disciplines owe you a debt of gratitude.

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 Congratulations, once again, for a grandiose conception.
The cover suggests a cyclical cosmos, unbound, calmness in a world that does not drift.
Is this the end goal?
TF

Sent from my iPhone

On Aug 3, 2022, at 11:26 AM, Nimi Wariboko <nimi...@msn.com> wrote:



Dear Colleagues:

 

Good news. My most recent book is out. It came out on August 1, 2022. I am glad to bring it to your notice. This volume completes the trilogy on my philosophy of split, ontological incompleteness as played out in the divine, economy, and time. The first volume, The Split God: Pentecostalism and Critical Theory came out in 2018 and second, The Split Economy: Saint Paul Goes to Wall Street came out in 2020.  All three rigorously and vigorously push for a view of social ethics that accents human flourishing for all. The first deals with African Pentecostals’ conception of a “fractured” God; the second deals with the global financial system and its inequities, and the third one offers a construct of philosophy of Africa’s economic development that is grounded in indigenous African thought/worldview.  

 

Thanks,

 

Nimi Wariboko

 

 

<image001.jpg>

 

 

 

AFRICAN Studies / Philosophy     

 

Aims to construct an economic philosophy from indigenous African thought.

 

Description

The quest for economic development is arguably the most frustrating and tragic dimension of human existence in Africa. As its primary task, The Split Time constructs an economic philosophy from a tradition of thought that is indigenous to Africa, arguing that there are long-neglected resources within African philosophy to guide economic policymakers toward creating an African economy that can sustain human flourishing. Exploring notions of destiny, temporality, and desire, Nimi Wariboko constructs an economic-philosophical framework to rethink solutions to the vexing problem of economic development in Africa. He also provides a robust social-ethical perspective in which the basic aspects of economic life—the agential (accounts of human agency, telos), the circumstantial (material/social context), and the affective (to feel appropriately what matters to a people in an economy or their desire for human flourishing)—come together to fire social imagination about development policies for the common good.

Nimi Wariboko is Walter G. Muelder Professor of Social Ethics at Boston University. He is the author of The Split Economy: Saint Paul Goes to Wall Street and The Split God: Pentecostalism and Critical Theory, both also published by SUNY Press. He has also worked as an investment banker on Wall Street and in Lagos, Nigeria.

Reviews

"Rigorously researched, The Split Time boldly poses urgent questions about the continued absence of economic development in a Nigerian African context. Nimi Wariboko's inimitable style—direct, logical, rhythmic, and compelling—enhances his perceptive mobilization of resources from 'indigenous economic philosophy.' The book's broad interdisciplinarity is a particular strength, advancing scholarship in interrelated fields ranging from theology and psychology to African studies." — Ebenezer Obadare, author of Pentecostal Republic: Religion and the Struggle for State Power in Nigeria

"Wariboko's compelling prescription for Africa's long-running underdevelopment syndrome centers on indigenous ideology and practices, allowing readers to savor a uniquely native system for bringing the African people to the much desired but elusive economic paradise." — Raphael Chijioke Njoku, author of West African Masking Traditions and Diaspora Masquerade Carnivals: History, Memory, and Transnationalism

 

State University of New York Press

www.sunypress.edu

August 2022 / 246 pages

ISBN 978-1-4384-8979-7

https://sunypress.edu/Books/T/The-Split-Time

 

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ugwuanyi Lawrence

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Aug 3, 2022, 8:08:24 AM8/3/22
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Thank you for your new book that could help scholars think differently about African future economic development.


Suddenly what in an African context, one may call (dis)development is pervading the African space, (dis) developing thought itself  that thinking differently has become a challenge. 

Your book seems to respond to this challenge!


Lawrence Ogbo Ugwuanyi,Ph.D

Professor of  African Philosophy & Thought 

University of Abuja,Nigeria



Adeshina Afolayan

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Aug 3, 2022, 1:45:12 PM8/3/22
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Oga Wariboko,
Congratulations on another masterpiece! 



Adeshina Afolayan, PhD
Department of Philosophy
University of Ibadan


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On Wednesday, August 3, 2022 at 11:26:35 AM GMT+1, Nimi Wariboko <nimi...@msn.com> wrote:


Dear Colleagues:

 

Good news. My most recent book is out. It came out on August 1, 2022. I am glad to bring it to your notice. This volume completes the trilogy on my philosophy of split, ontological incompleteness as played out in the divine, economy, and time. The first volume, The Split God: Pentecostalism and Critical Theory came out in 2018 and second, The Split Economy: Saint Paul Goes to Wall Street came out in 2020.  All three rigorously and vigorously push for a view of social ethics that accents human flourishing for all. The first deals with African Pentecostals’ conception of a “fractured” God; the second deals with the global financial system and its inequities, and the third one offers a construct of philosophy of Africa’s economic development that is grounded in indigenous African thought/worldview.  

 

Thanks,

 

Nimi Wariboko

 

 

Logo, company nameDescription automatically generated

 

 

 

AFRICAN Studies / Philosophy     

 

Aims to construct an economic philosophy from indigenous African thought.

 

Description

The quest for economic development is arguably the most frustrating and tragic dimension of human existence in Africa. As its primary task, The Split Time constructs an economic philosophy from a tradition of thought that is indigenous to Africa, arguing that there are long-neglected resources within African philosophy to guide economic policymakers toward creating an African economy that can sustain human flourishing. Exploring notions of destiny, temporality, and desire, Nimi Wariboko constructs an economic-philosophical framework to rethink solutions to the vexing problem of economic development in Africa. He also provides a robust social-ethical perspective in which the basic aspects of economic life—the agential (accounts of human agency, telos), the circumstantial (material/social context), and the affective (to feel appropriately what matters to a people in an economy or their desire for human flourishing)—come together to fire social imagination about development policies for the common good.

Nimi Wariboko is Walter G. Muelder Professor of Social Ethics at Boston University. He is the author of The Split Economy: Saint Paul Goes to Wall Street and The Split God: Pentecostalism and Critical Theory, both also published by SUNY Press. He has also worked as an investment banker on Wall Street and in Lagos, Nigeria.

Reviews

"Rigorously researched, The Split Time boldly poses urgent questions about the continued absence of economic development in a Nigerian African context. Nimi Wariboko's inimitable style—direct, logical, rhythmic, and compelling—enhances his perceptive mobilization of resources from 'indigenous economic philosophy.' The book's broad interdisciplinarity is a particular strength, advancing scholarship in interrelated fields ranging from theology and psychology to African studies." — Ebenezer Obadare, author of Pentecostal Republic: Religion and the Struggle for State Power in Nigeria

"Wariboko's compelling prescription for Africa's long-running underdevelopment syndrome centers on indigenous ideology and practices, allowing readers to savor a uniquely native system for bringing the African people to the much desired but elusive economic paradise." — Raphael Chijioke Njoku, author of West African Masking Traditions and Diaspora Masquerade Carnivals: History, Memory, and Transnationalism

 

State University of New York Press

www.sunypress.edu

August 2022 / 246 pages

ISBN 978-1-4384-8979-7

https://sunypress.edu/Books/T/The-Split-Time

 

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Elias K. Bongmba

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Dear Nimi,

Congratulations. Look for ward to reading it.

Sincerely,

Elias

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Oluwatoyin Adepoju

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Aug 3, 2022, 3:04:14 PM8/3/22
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Very, very great congrats, Nimi

Keep flying.

toyin

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Sabella Abidde

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Aug 4, 2022, 8:47:14 AM8/4/22
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Good evening brother Nimi,

Congratulations on this and the previous volumes. Congratulations!

All the best,

Sabella


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