USA Africa Dialogue Series - Your Good Help Is Needed

Toyin Falola

Department of History

The University of Texas at Austin

104 Inner Campus Drive

Austin, TX 78712-0220

USA

512 475 7224

512 475 7222 (fax)

http://www.toyinfalola.com 

http://www.utexas.edu/conferences/africa  

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From: Abdul Karim Bangura <theai@earthlink.net>
Reply-To: Abdul Karim Bangura <theai@earthlink.net>
Date: Tuesday, December 10, 2013 6:42 AM
To: Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu>, Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu>
Subject: Your Good Help Is Needed

Good Greetings Mwalimu Falola, I shall be very grateful, if you could kindly forward this posting to the USA-Africa Dialogue listserv.

 

Your Good Help Is Needed

 

Good Greetings Fellow Falolaists:

 

I pray that your day is going very well. I need your help in pointing me to or sharing your thoughts on the Yoruba framework on Knowledge. As you can see below, I am writing Chapter 18 of my second book on Mwalimu Toyin Falola's work to be titled Falolaism:  The Epistemologies and Methodologies of Africana Knowledge. It would be nice to couch the chapter in both the Ancient Egyptian framework of Knowledge, which is pregnant in Mwalimu Falola's book, and that of Yoruba.

 

Please send your responses to <theai@earthlink.net>. Thanks a heap in advance for your good help.

 

In Peace Always,

Karim/.

 

Chapter 18

 

Postulates of Indigenous Knowledge Production in Mwalimu Toyin Falola?s Yoruba Gurus: An Ancient Egyptian Rekh Analysis

 

 

Introduction

 

By employing the Ancient Egyptian rekh framework, this chapter analyzes the postulates on indigenous production of knowledge in Africa proffered by Mwalimu Toyin Falola in his book titled Yoruba Gurus. Ancient Egyptians believed that rekh (knowledge?meaning to know, to be wise, to be acquainted with, to be skilled in an art or craft) involves both ren and sometimes ka (meaning to name, to create, to form, to fashion, to beget, to produce) and ?r or ?ri (meaning to do). In essence, knowledge involves both naming and action ? abstract and concrete ? competence and performance. Consequently, an ?ru or ?riu (a doer) is more preferable to an ?khem (meaning a do nothing, to be ignorant, to have nothing, inert, weak, feeble).