Conceptualizing African Epistemology Conference
video: https://youtu.be/BwyGXT3uSjg
Literature, Language and the Pursuit of Knowledge
by Professor Malami Buba
African epistemologies are products of specific narratives - linguistic and literary - foregrounded in a cultural milieu that is anchored on a pluralistic landscape. My address seeks to extend the epistemological journey expounded by Professor Toyin Falola, and eminently captured and compressed in Bangura (2015). In drawing parallels between these literatures and my own historical contributions to this discourse, three competing paradigms are examined. These paradigms are then situated not only within a broader discussion of knowledge systems, but also in their local collocation with internal voices of claims and counter-claims about being and the well-being of Hausa people and society. The objective is to suggest further lines of inquiry, leading ultimately to a preeminent role given to African languages in the development of the continent as a net contributor to global knowledge capital.
by Professor Malami Buba
African epistemologies are products of specific narratives - linguistic and literary - foregrounded in a cultural milieu that is anchored on a pluralistic landscape. My address seeks to extend the epistemological journey expounded by Professor Toyin Falola, and eminently captured and compressed in Bangura (2015). In drawing parallels between these literatures and my own historical contributions to this discourse, three competing paradigms are examined. These paradigms are then situated not only within a broader discussion of knowledge systems, but also in their local collocation with internal voices of claims and counter-claims about being and the well-being of Hausa people and society. The objective is to suggest further lines of inquiry, leading ultimately to a preeminent role given to African languages in the development of the continent as a net contributor to global knowledge capital.
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