Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Human Rights and Cultural Limitations, By Toyin Falola

Let the polemics, criticology, ergotation, and definitional fireworks begin o. Me, I dey siddon look ni shaa. Teach me, teach us, wise ones.

BioDun

On Sun, Dec 13, 2020, 12:05 'Biko Agozino' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> wrote:

'To begin with, I clarified the concept of culture. It is a way of life that lays the groundwork and provides the frame of reference with which people approach and navigate their everyday lives and experiences.' - Toyin Falola

To say that culture is a way of life is to replicate the contested consensual definition advanced by colonial functionalist anthropologists. To say that it is a way of life is to suggest that the way people live is their chosen consensus way of life. Quite on the contrary, the way Africans live in a racist world, the way women live in patriarchal societies, and the way the colonized and the poor live in a world under imperialist domination cannot be said to be their ways of life. Rather, these are conditions imposed by law against which they struggle for liberation. Therefore, culture is the way of struggles for and against domination according to Du Bois, CLR James, Azikiwe, Nkrumah,  Fanon, Cabral, Rodney, Mandela, Ousmane, Soyinka, Achebe, Ngugi, Angela Davis, bell hooks, Amadiume, Nzegwu, Oyewumi, Bessie Head, Ruth First, Derrida, Gilroy, and Stuart Hall.

Biko

On Sunday, 13 December 2020, 11:20:01 GMT-5, Olusegun Olopade <bcmanager@toyinfalolanetwork.org> wrote:

Human Rights and Cultural Limitations, By Toyin Falola

 

Howdy?

Check this newly published article from Toyin Falola.

HUMAN RIGHTS AND CULTURAL LIMITATIONS

https://opinion.premiumtimesng.com/2020/12/13/human-rights-and-cultural-limitations-by-toyin-falola/

https://www.chronicle.gm/human-rights-and-cultural-limitations-a-reflection-on-2020-human-rights-day/

https://www.naijatimes.ng/human-rights-and-cultural-limitations/

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