Sanya Osha

An Ethos of Transdisciplinarity (eBook, ePUB)

Conversations with Toyin Falola

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Toyin Falola is one of modern Africa's most prolific public intellectuals. This project seeks to illuminate the mind of this modern master in an age of transnationalisation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781839993213
• Artikelnr.: 73471869

Autorenporträt

Sanya Osha holds a PhD in Philosophy and taught the discipline in Nigerian universities for a decade. He has published extensively on anthropology, cultural studies, knowledge systems of Africa, the politics of the West African region, and the sociopolitical and cultural realities of Southern Africa. He has undertaken extensive research on the discursive status of African systems of knowledge. He also spent a decade studying and teaching the sociological and political aspects of innovations studies. As an academic, he has held research positions at Smith College in the USA, the University of Groningen and the African Studies Centre in the Netherlands, and in South Africa at the Universities of Kwa-Zulu-Natal, University of South Africa, and the Africa Institute for South Africa (AISA). He has also delivered lectures at University of Johannesburg and Stellenbosch University, South Africa.

Some of his publications include, Kwasi Wiredu: The Text, Writing and Thought in Africa (2005), Postethnophilosophy (2011), African Postcolonial Modernity: Informal Subjectivities and the Democratic Consensus (2014), Dani Nabudere's Afrikology: A Quest for African Holism (2018) and Ken Saro-Wiwa's Shadow (Expanded Edition): Politics, Nationalism and the Ogoni Protest Movement (2021).

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: A Long Introduction Divided into Several Segments
Introduction
The Yoruba: Falola's Tactile Ethnic Home
Toyin Falola
Public Engagement and an Exercise
in Pan-Africanism
Scholarship of Transdisciplinarity and Interculturality
The Significance of Orisa
Unfinished Business
Bibliography
Part 2: An interview section
Index