Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Falola, Decolonizing African Knowledge | © 2022

Congrats to Falola on this exciting work. I look forward to reading it. 

Meanwhile, is autoethnography consistent with the African ways of knowing or is it closer to colonial anthropology to be questioned in efforts to decolonize African knowledge systems? What is the African decolonial project, is it the struggle for decolonization that continues to be the African preferred way of theorizing the struggle, or is it an adjectival way of avoiding the charge that decolonization is not a metaphor by adopting a jargon that people of European descent coined apparently as a contribution to epistemologies from the South mainly with a focus on such questions as if the native can think? 

Biko

On Wednesday, 15 June 2022, 19:35:51 GMT-4, Olusegun Olopade <bcmanager@toyinfalolanetwork.org> wrote:

Falola, Decolonizing African Knowledge | © 2022

This is to announce a new book by Toyin Falola:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/decolonizing-african-knowledge/1296996BE948B52843872FAA948447BE

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022
Online ISBN: 9781009049634
Series Subjects: African Identities: Past and Present, Area Studies, African Studies, Social and Cultural Anthropology, History, Anthropology, African History
Author: Toyin Falola

BOOK DESCRIPTION

Addressing the consequences of European slavery, colonialism, and neo-colonialism on African history, knowledge and its institutions, this innovative book applies autoethnography to the understanding of African knowledge systems. Considering the 'Self' and Yoruba Being (the individual and the collective) in the context of the African decolonial project, Falola strips away Eurocentric influences and interruptions from African epistemology. Avoiding colonial archival sources, it grounds itself in alternative archives created by memory, spoken words, images and photographs to look at the themes of politics, culture, nation, ethnicity, satire, poetics, magic, myth, metaphor, sculpture, textiles, hair and gender. Vividly illustrated in colour, it uses diverse and novel methods to access an African way of knowing. Exploring the different ways that a society understands and presents itself, this book highlights convergence, enmeshing private and public data to provide a comprehensive understanding of society, public consciousness, and cultural identity.

Find More: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/decolonizing-african-knowledge/1296996BE948B52843872FAA948447BE

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