Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Afrogogy

Sista Glo,

Afrogogy, like pedagogy, is not an identity. It is a teaching method that can be adopted by anyone irrespective of identity. People of African descent, Marxists and feminists, have been applying the term pedagogy rather uncritically despite its Eurocentric patriarchal bourgeois implications. People of European descent can also adopt Afrogogy especially when they are teaching people of African descent.

Afrocentrism is not the same as Afrocentricity. The paradigm of Afrocentricity simply means that anyone studying Africa and people of African descent should have Africans at the center of the epistemological interest just like anyone studying music will have to be musicentric. Afrocentrism is similar to Eurocentrism or ethnocentrism, quite different from the scholarly principle of centricity that can be adopted by anyone studying anything that is at the center of the scholarship but without assuming that the way you study is the only valid universal methodology for studying anything or that you are always the best expert on the subject. Many scholars in Africology are not people of African descent just as Africans major in European Classics.

If being excluded from honors is the only measurement for poor scholarship, then some of our greatest scholars would not qualify. Today we honor them despite the fact that they were the stones that the builders refused but turned out to be the head corner stones. Instead of raising the fear of censure for innovation, let us know if you prefer the flawed term, pedagogy, as a description of your teaching practice at the university level. Are you still engaged in the pediatric practice of child-rearing? Are your university students the oppressed peasants of Freire or are they privileged along race-class-gender axes?

Biko

On Thursday, 13 May 2021, 19:42:08 GMT-4, Emeagwali, Gloria (History) <emeagwali@ccsu.edu> wrote:

Afrigogy, Africology, Afrocentrism, Afro-?

are about identity politics and you can be

thrown in the doghouse for that.

I suppose that advocacy for Black Lives Matter

is also a prohibited area.

Professor Gloria Emeagwali
Prof. of History/African Studies, CCSU
africahistory.net; vimeo.com/ gloriaemeagwali
Recipient of the 2014 Distinguished Research
Excellence Award, Univ. of Texas at Austin;
2019 Distinguished Africanist Award
New York African Studies Association

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On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 15:01 'Biko Agozino' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> wrote:

This may interest you:

Rethinking the "Pedagogy of the Oppressed" | Biko Agozino

Rethinking the "Pedagogy of the Oppressed" | Biko Agozino When we admit that the minds of university students are not blank slates, we will be more open to their ideas.

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