Are humour studies emerging in African universities?
ugwuanyi Lawrence
https://www.universityworldnews.com/page.php?page=Africa_Edition
"...If celebrating life is an eloquent aspect of African life why is humour still standing in the background in the academy. Why the paucity of the discourse on humour in the universities, one may ask?....There are probably a number of reasons for this. The first is that there are a number of hidden knowledge challenges that could spur a vibrant modernity that African universities are grappling with as they re-invent Africa.
This is notwithstanding what appears to be a heavy obliteration of this challenge by, yet again, the forces of globalisation at the moment. Africa cannot afford to be global at the expense of being creatively local!
The second is that the global or wider world may
even be harbouring subtle, heavy but hidden challenges that demand an African
agency and contribution which Africa might wish to address before a humour
curriculum may succeed in African universities.
Africa prides herself as the birthplace of homo sapiens and human civilisation where being human is a norm, a belief, an order, an ethics, a value, or a
principle, and where being human is allowing, letting and getting others to be human!...."
Lawrence Ogbo Ugwuanyi
Professor of African Philosophy and Thought
Department of Philosophy
University of Abuja
Oluwatoyin Adepoju
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