New Publication

[Adeshina Afolayan]

I am very pleased to announce the publication of Pathways to Alternative Epistemologies in Africa. Please do recommend the volume to your libraries, and endeavor to get one for yourself too!

Thank you!

Pathways to Alternative Epistemologies in Africa | Adeshina Afolayan | Palgrave Macmillan

€114.39 Pathways to Alternative Epistemologies in Africa | Adeshina Afolayan | P... This volume investigates alternative epistemological pathways by which knowledge production in Africa can procee...

Adeshina Afolayan, PhD

Department of Philosophy

University of Ibadan

Nigeria

+234(80)-3928-8429

[afolayanbosede]

Congratulations, Ojogbon Afolayan.  E ku oriire.

Bosede

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[Bayo Omolola]

Congratulation, Prof. A. Afolayan! More productive contributions this year and in the years ahead!

Bayo Omolola

On Wednesday, January 13, 2021, 06:14:17 PM EST, Nimi Wariboko <nimi...@msn.com> wrote:

Congratulations!

Nimi 

On Jan 13, 2021, at 3:58 PM, Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju <toyin....@gmail.com> wrote:



Great congrats

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[Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju]

Great congrats

On Wed, Jan 13, 2021, 17:47 Adeshina Afolayan <adeshina...@gmail.com> wrote:

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[Michael Afolayan]

Congratulations are in order, my people. The title, the topics, the authors, etc., are so tantalizing!

This, seriously, would be a great read, but alas, only a handful can afford it. This is discouraging, and it won't be the first time we are discussing this matter. It won't be the last time either because, as the old saying goes, "When you steal the chicken of the pauper, you've just made an invitation to endless grudges." We need to start writing protest letters to our academic publishers and let them know that except they are publishing only for library holdings in the western world, these prices are over and above what the average reading enthusiast can afford. They should be aware, for instance, that $1 is almost 500 Naira in exchange rates in Nigeria. A $20 book would come with a warping N10,000 price tag. Do the math and calculate how many of such books the average Nigerian academic can afford every single year. Not many, if any! Two, three years down the road, even the authors would not be able to afford the purchases as those prices would have doubled, tripled, or even quadrupled. Except, perhaps, it's to flaunt the cliché "your eyes may see, but your lips cannot taste" childhood taunting, these prices must be made bearable. They are exponentially beyond the margin of affordability. We can follow the Indian model of the past years, can't we? It's the same model most newspaper publishers around the world follow. The paper quality may not be heavy, but the price tag will not empty the wallet, and the pool of knowledge would overflow its banks to all and sundry. This is the goal of every writer. Who would not want to read these three respected author-editors? Sadly, few would. I can't, in spite of my utmost respect and admiration for them and their superior intellects. It's neither fair to readers nor rewarding and fulfilling to authors. Consequently, publishers lose as well. Something must be done. The stakes are just too high for us to do nothing!

Michael O. Afoláyan

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[Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju]

Michael Afoloyan sums up the paradox of the scholar in Africa  publishing in the West, particularly with Western academic presses.

Western academic presess produce some of the best books in the world but most of this scholarship is challenging to access in Africa, for example, beceause Western academic publishing operates on a model centred in an ivory tower culture fed by a robust knowledge circulation and economic system cultivated in the West over centuries and which most other regions in the world do not have.

The book is expensive but if you are in the West, your University library can get copies.

You may have a book acquisition fund as part of your income, so buying books is made easier.

Your income could be strong enough to buy such books without difficulty.

All these conditions do not operate outside the West for. many countries, but the West has the most prestigious publishing houses, the most visible, where the largest congregation of the world's knowledge exists.

Thus, you publish there, you garner global visibility and prestige, but most people in your own country, scholars and general public, cannot read your work because it is priced beyond the reach of individuals and institutions.

Solutions.

Indian publishers working with State University of New York Press, for example, republish books by SUNY using lower quality paper and at cheaper prices and sell all over the world.

Also, authors may consider reaching agreements with Western publishers on leaving the door open for republishing the same text for the African market, for example, for favourable terms for republishing with publishers in Africa.

Also, authours may work at publishing with local publishers and working with them to give their works the global visibility the Western publishers already have.

Also, Western published academic texts could be republished in different formats, smaller editions, eg publishing each chapter as a small, easily affordable book.

These publications could be e- books, print and web based, the latter being a website accessible after paying for the book.

Various factors inform the high prices of books by Western academic publishers, factors that don't seem to negatively impact knowledge development in the West, but a situation that needs to be creatively examined in relation to other parts of the world.

Thanks

Toyin

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