Toyin Falola (Austin University of Texas)

Gebundenes Buch

Decolonizing African Knowledge

Autoethnography and African Epistemologies

Beschreibung

Addressing the consequences of colonialism on African history, knowledge and its institutions, this innovative work from one of Africa's most eminent historians uses memory, visual aesthetics and literature to consider the 'Self' and Yoruba Being in the context of the African decolonial project.

Autor

Toyin Falola is Professor of History, University Distinguished Teaching Professor, and the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities, at the University of Texas at Austin. He had served as the General Secretary of the Historical Society of Nigeria, the President of the African Studies Association, Vice-President of UNESCO Slave Route Project, and the Kluge Chair of the Countries of the South, Library of Congress. He is a member of the Scholars' Council, Kluge Center, the Library of Congress. He has received over thirty lifetime career awards and fifteen honorary doctorates. He has written extensively on African knowledge systems, including Religious Beliefs and Knowledge Systems in Africa (2021), African Spirituality, Politics and Knowledge Systems: Sacred Words and Holy Realm (2021) and Decolonizing African Studies: Knowledge Production, Agency and Voice (2022). He is also the series co-editor for Cambridge University Press's series African Identities.

Produktdetails

• African Identities: Past and Present
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 524
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 156mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 968g
• ISBN-13: 9781316511237
• ISBN-10: 1316511235
• Artikelnr.: 63761224