Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Aláàfin as Cultural Intellectual

Wonderful:

'Great thoughts. Perhaps one way to go is for individual researchers to take up the gauntlet and start these kinds of research projects. Decolonizing knowledge involves dipppng into the "ritual archives" as you rightly pointed out by way of Falola; by even more so, it involves reducing or removing the imperialistic impression that it is only Universities, and formal government or other institutions that have the power to create and legitimate knowledge. And I would say no. Let's not wait for the University of Ibadan, just to take a nearby example, to commission such a study. You and I and anyone else can begin to design such a research project— and one of the immediate benefits would be that there would be better potential for autonomy of process that Nigerian and other colonial universities lack. I am not in any way ignoring the role that universities and other institutions can and should play; but I am arguing that we need not wait for them.'

Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso  The Falola ritual archives essay is very impressive. I hope to publish online an analysis of it soon. Falola also discusses the challenge of the institutional contexts of innovative research. A challenge with non-university scholarship is the question of reward. In the contemporary economy of scholarly knowledge of which universities are the centre, research leads to employment and  promotion, promotion to more money.All these sustain the existence and work of the researcher. Its great to do work outside unis, but lets us also ask ourselves about funding for such work and how the workers are to be economically empowered. thanks toyin

On 26 January 2018 at 13:16, Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso <jumoyin@gmail.com> wrote:

Great thoughts. Perhaps one way to go is for individual researchers to take up the gauntlet and start these kinds of research projects. Decolonizing knowledge involves dipppng into the "ritual archives" as you rightly pointed out by way of Falola; by even more so, it involves reducing or removing the imperialistic impression that it is only Universities, and formal government or other institutions that have the power to create and legitimate knowledge. And I would say no. Let's not wait for the University of Ibadan, just to take a nearby example, to commission such a study. You and I and anyone else can begin to design such a research project— and one of the immediate benefits would be that there would be better potential for autonomy of process that Nigerian and other colonial universities lack. I am not in any way ignoring the role that universities and other institutions can and should play; but I am arguing that we need not wait for them.

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