USA Africa Dialogue Series - Fw: The Deadline for Abstracts for the Lagos Studies Association Conference is Approaching (Hybrid) June 17-21, 2025

Dr. John Ayotunde (Tunde) Isola BEWAJI, FNAL
Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, University of the West Indies
BA, MA, PhD Philosophy, PGDE, MA Distance Education
Postgraduate Certificate in Philosophy for Children

Former Visiting Research Fellow, Rhodes University Center for African Studies, Rhodes University, South Africa
Distinguished Researcher, PJ Patterson Institute for Africa Caribbean Advocacy, University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Jamaica
Member, CODESRIA College of Mentors
Founding President, Academy of African Indigenous Religions, Theology and Arts - AAIRTA

Former Professorial Fellow and Distinguished Lecturer, National Open University of Nigeria, Abuja, Nigeria
Former Senior Research Associate, University of Johannesburg, Republic of South Africa

Former Caribbean Exchange Scholar, Hunter College - CUNY, New York

Former Jay Newman Visiting Professor of Philosophy, Brooklyn College - CUNY

Former Guggenheim Research Fellow in Philosophy of Culture
Former People to People Philosophy Ambassador to Russia and Hungary
Former Chair, National Bioethics Commission of Jamaica (UNESCO)
Mailing Address:
PJ Patterson Institute for Africa Caribbean Advocacy, University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Jamaica
Tel:   +18768051909
Email: tundebewaji@yahoo.com (alternate)
           johnayotundebewaji@gmail.com (alternate)

           john.bewaji@uwimona.edu.jm (alternate)
Books include:
http://www.cap-press.com/books/isbn/9781611630879/Narratives-of-Struggle (2012)
http://www.amazon.com/Black-Aesthetics (2012)
https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780739185032/Ontologized-Ethics (2013)
https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498518383/The-Rule-of-Law-and-Governance-in-Indigenous-Yoruba-Society-A-Study-in-African-Philosophy-of-Law (2016)
http://www.cambridgescholars.com/the-humanities-and-the-dynamics-of-african-culture-in-the-21st-century (2017)
https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498598132/Identity-Re-creation-in-Global-African-Encounters (2019)
https://epub.uni-bayreuth.de/5358/1/WP25-AMc-2-Bewaji-Diaspora-2021.pdf
https://youtu.be/xkq1XPSMHTs
https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781666905830/Fragmented-Identities-of-Nigeria-Sociopolitical-and-Economic-Crises#:~:text=%22Fragmented%20Identities%20of%20Nigeria%20offers,the%20different%20segments%20of%20the (2022)

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The Deadline for Abstracts for the Lagos Studies Association Conference is Approaching 

As always, the Lagos Studies Association Conference will have a couple of organized panels. If you are looking for a panel to join, consider any of these organized panels, or organize your own, or submit your abstract to the general pool: https://lnkd.in/eCaJrzgt

Deadline: December 1

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Is Theater Completely Dead in Africa? Celebrating 25 Years of Karin Barber's The Generation of Plays https://www.lagosstudies.org/s/Olokodana-James-sd2n.docx

 

Rethinking African Popular Music: A Critical Celebration of the 35th Anniversary of Christopher Waterman's  Jùjú: https://www.lagosstudies.org/s/Popoola.docx

 

Bridging the Past and the Future: African Information Science in Transition: https://www.lagosstudies.org/s/Adebayo-dpj7.docx

 

Lagos Na Wa, I Swear: Connecting the Auto/Ethnographies of Lagos Peculiar Memories, Tales and Conjectures as In/tangible Heritage: https://www.lagosstudies.org/s/Ademowo.docx

 

From Beats to Activism: Engaging the Transformative Power of Fuji Music in Eco-political and Social Reorientation: https://www.lagosstudies.org/s/Ademowo2.docx

 

Epistemicide, African Narratives of Struggle and the Question of Knowledge and Identity in the Works of Ayotunde Ishola Bewaji: https://www.lagosstudies.org/s/Ademowo3.docx

 

Ololade Asake: The ''Lungu Boy'' Album: https://www.lagosstudies.org/s/Folajimi.docx

 

Sákárà Music Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow: https://www.lagosstudies.org/s/Ogunnaike.docx

 

Being neither here nor there: Continuity and Discontinuity in Wole Soyinka's Works: https://www.lagosstudies.org/s/Ojoniyi.docx

 

Navigating Identities: Migration, Belonging, and Identity Formation: https://www.lagosstudies.org/s/Oluwasanmi.docx

 

Science, Technology, and Indigenous Knowledge in Africa since the Precolonial Period: Engaging the Scholarship of Gloria Emeagwali: https://www.lagosstudies.org/s/Adebayo-and-Okpalaeke.docx

 

Love in the Time of Likes: Dating and Matchmaking in Nigeria Digital Media https://www.lagosstudies.org/s/Onanuga.docx

 

Everything is Imagined: Continuity and Discontinuity in Historical Nollywood Films https://www.lagosstudies.org/s/Soetan.docx

 

 "The Age of Concrete": Rethinking Colonial and Transnational Architecture and Spatial Transformation in the Global South https://www.lagosstudies.org/s/Isiani.docx

 

Of Streets and Streeters: Bodies, Expressions, and Identities in African Urban Space https://www.lagosstudies.org/s/Wright.docx

 

 Doing History with Films: Nollywood, History and Cinematic Truth https://www.lagosstudies.org/s/Olaiya-and-Afolayan.docx

 

New Directions in African Dramatic Expressions: Discontinuities and Continuities https://www.lagosstudies.org/s/Olukayode.docx

 

 

Women and Corruption in Africa's Politics https://www.lagosstudies.org/s/Omotoso.docx

 

Gender and the Patriarchy in Nollywood Films

https://www.lagosstudies.org/s/Taiwo.docx

 

Exploring the Impact of Platformization Across Sectors: Labour, Cultural Production and Economic Transformations https://www.lagosstudies.org/s/Etemah.docx

 

Lagos as a Text in African Literature and Popular Media https://www.lagosstudies.org/s/Ugor.docx  

 

Lionheart's Disqualification: The English Language, and (Dis)belonging in the Postcolonies https://www.lagosstudies.org/s/Aboh.docx

 

 Bridging the Gap: Technology, Indigenous Knowledge and the Transformation of Education in Africa https://www.lagosstudies.org/s/Omordion.docx

 

Exploring Continuities and Discontinuities in African Visual Arts, Education, and Cultural Histories https://www.lagosstudies.org/s/Ajayi-9as6.docx

 

Journey through time: The evolution of women in the Nigerian film industries https://www.lagosstudies.org/s/Anulika.docx

GenZee Culture: Disruptive Creativity, Sex, Music/Gaming, Mental Health, and Social Media (DC-SMMS) https://www.lagosstudies.org/s/Agidigbo.docx

 

Indigenous Knowledge: Ecology, Culture and Politics of Resistance in Colonial Africa Indigenous Knowledge: Ecology, Culture and Politics of Resistance in Colonial Africa

 

Aquatic Africa: Water and Marine Life in Historical and Contemporary Perspectives https://www.lagosstudies.org/s/Yusuff.docx

 

 Uncovering Hidden Histories: Continuities and Discontinuities in African Historiography https://www.lagosstudies.org/s/Audu.docx

 

AI, Folklore and Cultural Sustainability: Leveraging African Indigenous Knowledge Systems https://www.lagosstudies.org/s/Oyigbo.docx

 

Identity and Conflict: Exploring the Nexus Between Intergroup Relations and Violence in Africa https://www.lagosstudies.org/s/Olusanjo.docx

 

Women's Performance Art as Cultural Expression in Africa: Learning from the Past, Shaping the Present, and Defining the Future https://www.lagosstudies.org/s/Epochi-Olise.docx

 

Violence in Africa: Political Legacies and Modern Challenges in Governance https://www.lagosstudies.org/s/Giwa.docx

 

Nollywood Film Remakes: Digital, Thematic, and Narrative (Dis)Continuities https://www.lagosstudies.org/s/Okwuowulu.docx

 

GenZee Culture: Disruptive Creativity, Sex, Music/Gaming, Mental Health, and Social Media (DC-SMMS) https://www.lagosstudies.org/s/Agidigbo-wl97.docx

 

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Saheed Aderinto

Winner, The Dan David Prize

Professor of History and African and African Diaspora Studies

Department of History

African & African Diaspora Studies Program

Florida International University

Modesto A. Maidique Campus, 300 SIPAII 
11200 SW 8th Street

Miami FL 33199 

Producer and Director of The Fuji Documentary

Website: saheedaderinto.com

 

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