Project Completed
"Womb Wisdom to Cosmic Wisdom: Women and Africana Spiritualities in Africa and the Diaspora"
for the forthcoming
The Palgrave Handbook of African Women's Studies
ed by
Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso and Toyin Falola
Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju
Comparative Cognitive Processes and Systems
"Exploring Every Corner of the Cosmos in Search of Knowledge"
Exquisite sculpture and vase combination from the apartment where Ayoola Gbolahan's "In Pursuit of Onenness" art exhibition was held
I am feeling empowered, a sense of inward potency along with a need to rest and recharge having just passed through a demanding but fulfilling mental and physical process, editing, in response to Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso's very encouraging but rigorously critical reviewer's comments, my essay "Womb Wisdom to Cosmic Wisdom: Women and Africana Spiritualities in Africa and the Diaspora" for the forthcoming Palgrave Handbook of African Women's Studies ed by Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso and Toyin Falola.
Creative people i have encountered only online, except one, and largely on social media, i have now been able to discuss with some depth in that chapter.
This essay is the fruit of years of effort, writing largely on Facebook, and for one of the creatives, also significantly through blogging.
I stumbled on the women's studies book project as I watched Yacob-Haliso work on it at the Falola@65 conference in Jan 2018 which I was invited to review and chair a panel by Toyin Falola and Samuel Oloruntoba.
This is my third essay this year submitted for a publication edited by the omnivorous scholar Toyin Falola.
Anther is an essay on African environmental ethics in the Palgrave Handbook of African Social Ethics edited by Nimi Wariboko and Toyin Falola, for which I was recommended by Adeshina Afolayan and guided in writing by discussions with Afolayan and Wariboko. This essay hearkens back to the Platonic model in being composed in a dialogical form.
Another is an essay on Falola and his In Praise of Greatness for the Yoruba Studies Review which I was also invited to do by Afolayan.
These essays have inspired other, self published essays, from the essay on the imaginative technology of a Yoruba women's spirituality related to the chapter on Africana female centered spiritualities, to one comparing African and Western philosophies of nature motivated by the environmental ethics essay to two on Uli philosophy and mysticism-second is not yet published and two desktop composed films from the Falola In Praise of Greatness essay.
My personal universe of knowledge thereby takes increasingly definite shape within its essential dynamism.
Great thanks to the Toyin Falola Network.
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