Falola, Decolonizing African Knowledge | © 2022

[Olusegun Olopade]

Falola, Decolonizing African Knowledge | © 2022

This is to announce a new book by Toyin Falola:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/decolonizing-african-knowledge/1296996BE948B52843872FAA948447BE

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022
Online ISBN: 9781009049634
Series Subjects: African Identities: Past and Present, Area Studies, African Studies, Social and Cultural Anthropology, History, Anthropology, African History
Author: Toyin Falola

BOOK DESCRIPTION

Addressing the consequences of European slavery, colonialism, and neo-colonialism on African history, knowledge and its institutions, this innovative book applies autoethnography to the understanding of African knowledge systems. Considering the 'Self' and Yoruba Being (the individual and the collective) in the context of the African decolonial project, Falola strips away Eurocentric influences and interruptions from African epistemology. Avoiding colonial archival sources, it grounds itself in alternative archives created by memory, spoken words, images and photographs to look at the themes of politics, culture, nation, ethnicity, satire, poetics, magic, myth, metaphor, sculpture, textiles, hair and gender. Vividly illustrated in colour, it uses diverse and novel methods to access an African way of knowing. Exploring the different ways that a society understands and presents itself, this book highlights convergence, enmeshing private and public data to provide a comprehensive understanding of society, public consciousness, and cultural identity.

Find More: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/decolonizing-african-knowledge/1296996BE948B52843872FAA948447BE

[Biko Agozino]

Congrats to Falola on this exciting work. I look forward to reading it. 

Meanwhile, is autoethnography consistent with the African ways of knowing or is it closer to colonial anthropology to be questioned in efforts to decolonize African knowledge systems? What is the African decolonial project, is it the struggle for decolonization that continues to be the African preferred way of theorizing the struggle, or is it an adjectival way of avoiding the charge that decolonization is not a metaphor by adopting a jargon that people of European descent coined apparently as a contribution to epistemologies from the South mainly with a focus on such questions as if the native can think? 

Biko

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[Chielozona Eze]

Congratulations, TF.

Just before one finishes saying congratulations on your one book, you produce another.

So inspiring.

Chielo Eze

President, Igbo Studies Association

Bernard J. Brommel Distinguished Research Professor

Professor, Africana Studies, Northeastern Illinois University https://neiu.academia.edu/ChielozonaEze

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My latest book: Justice and Human Rights in the African Imagination.

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[Gloria Emeagwali]

Biko, you should write a  full book

review for those of us who can’t 

keep pace with this prolific writer’s 

rate of  production.

How does the author avoid the

 narcissistic gaze in this work? Is this tome

anti- colonial or  neo- colonial  - with respect to content, style and structure.

Is the definition of  knowledge system

trapped within the structural functionalist 

framework ?

Prof. Gloria Emeagwali 

CCSU

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[Maurice Amutabi]

Dear Gloria and Biko,

The Great One, Mwalimu Toyin Falola, gifted me with a copy in his recent visit to Kenya where he honoured us at the Technical University of Kenya with a distinguished lecture. The book provides a reflective conjecture in the growth of intellectual history of Africa and diaspora and the path towards true liberation of African knowledge production from the dangers and threats identified by the great Cheikh Anta Diop, Theophilus Obenga, Walter Rodney, Frantz Fanon, Samir Amin, Achie Mafeje, Ngugi wa Thiongo, William Ochieng, Dani Nabudere, the list is long. The book has made great reading and I am sure it will inspire many to rethink the whole idea of knowledge production in Africa where we are called upon to create our own inventories and not rely on those created by others. I therefore support the idea that Biko writes a full book review as proposed by Gloria.

Maurice

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