Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Yoruba Studies Review, 3,1, Fall 2018

I hereby profoundly thank Adeshina Afolayan, Toyin Falola and Akintunde Akinyemi  for the presence of my essays, and two, for that matter, in this journal. I also salute  Akinyemi   for his work on making the review essay, having first been published on Facebook and Google groups, ready for journal publication, and for his patience with me as I struggled to reshape the  essay for the journal. My experiences with the Falola@65 2018 conference at Ibadan,  enabled by Samuel Oloruntoba's role in suggesting my invitation to the conference, providential and continuously inspiring,  stands, like a spring,  at the headwaters of the publication harvest that is this years's bounty.

I am not thanking these people for doing me a favour. An academic journal worth its remit as a transmitter of the most refined knowledge possible does not do anyone favours by publishing them. It operates by a benchmark which contributors do themselves a favour by meeting, thereby demonstrating their own knowledge and skill.

I am thanking Adeshina, Falola, Akinyemi and Oloruntoba for appreciating the possibility of my making valuable contributions to the world class, cutting edge projects they are developing and inviting me to participate. 

As an Independent Scholar whose primary publication platform is social media, a platform valuable for flexibility of presentation, speed of publication, ready accessibility and rapidity of audience response but also demonstrating a number of limitations, one of which is inadequate appreciation of its cognitive value, these initiatives mean a lot to me in terms of recognition in relation to  the rigorous criteria represented by academic scholarship, that associated with tertiary centres of learning, expanded opportunities for building my creativity which such acknowledgement  and publication opportunities enable, exposure to a broader audience and the chance to ventilate in depth on issues dear to me, each of those writings representing the projection of my soul within the architectonics of the essay.

Amplifying these satisfactions is the fact that these works, at the  intersections of philosophy, the visual and verbal arts and spirituality,  are in fields in which, except for literature,  I am largely self educated.   I must express appreciation, though,  of the priceless fundamentalities from the various academic programs I have undertaken. Images of the inspiring teachers and environments from these programs in Nigeria and England, along with the commitments passed on by those who made such education, formal and informal, possible,  rise to my  mind as I write, enablements reverberating in knowledge and skill that underlies all my work and will continue to do so as I grow in  understanding and aptitude.

As it stands, this has brought to four my essays in The Yoruba Studies Review  and six, in all, for my publications in scholarly initiatives by what I name the Falola Network,  Toyin Falola and the scholars associated with him.

Persisting along these lines will contribute to my laying foundational stones at the convergences  of aesthetics, metaphysics, epistemology , spirituality and  arts criticism, my central fields of interest, from within the matrix of African thought and art and possibly beyond.

Great thanks, people.

toyin

On Thu, 6 Dec 2018 at 00:19, Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu> wrote:

I am happy to announce the publication of the Special Edition on "Yoruba Philosophy and Contemporary Nigerian Realities" guest edited by Dr. Adeshina Afolayan of the University of Ibadan.

 

YORUBA STUDIES REVIEW

 

 

VOLUME 3, NUMBER 1, FALL 2018

 

SPECIAL EDITION

 

 

Theme: Yorùbá Philosophy and Contemporary Nigerian Realities

           

Contents

 

Introduction: Yorùbá Philosophy and Contemporary Nigerian Realities. 1

Adeshina Afolayan

 

Essays

Anchored in Justice: Yorùbá Philosophy and the Politics of a Diverse State.  29

Segun Gbadegesin

 

Contemporary Nigeria and the Deficit of Deliberative Democracy: Àgbájọ Ọwọ́ as Collegiality 47

Ronald Olufemi Badru    

 

Disability and Human Diversity: A Reinterpretation of Ẹni-Òòṣà Philosophy in Yorùbá Belief   67

Omotade Adegbindin

 

Adapting Yorùbá Epistemology in Educational Theory and Practice in Nigeria                       97

Toyin Vincent Adepoju

 

Demographics and the Irony of Existential Profiling in Yorùbá Belief: Policy Considerations for Nigeria. 123

Wale Olajide

 

Asùwàdà Principle and Inter-Ethnic Conflict in Nigeria                                                           139

Yunusa Salami

 

Ọmọ Tí A Kò Kọ́: Globalization and Cultural Education among New Generation Nigerian Yorùbá    153

Michael Afolayan

 

The Depersonalized as Vanishing Hero and Heroine in Yorùbá Moral Placards                      175

Olatunde Bayo Lawuyi

 

Political Communication and the Nigerian Democratic Experiment: Critical Insights from Yorùbá Philosophy  189

Sharon Adetutu Omotoso

 

I am hated, therefore, I am: The Enemy in Yorùbá Imaginary                  211

Abimbola Adelakun

 

Yorùbá Values and the Environment                 229

John Ayotunde Isola Bewaji

 

 

Aristotle and the Ọmọlúwàbí Ethos: Ethical Implications for Public Morality in Nigeria              251

Sunday Olaoluwa Dada

 

Ìwà l'ẹwà: Towards a Yorùbá Feminist Ethics                277

Olayinka Oyeleye

 

A Sartrean Approach to Ayé Ṣίṣe in Yorùbá Existentialism             297

Babalola Joseph Balogun

 

 

Review Essay

Epistemic Roots, Universal Routes and Ontological Roofs of African "Ritual Archives" Disciplinary Formations in African Thought   315

Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju

 

Book Review

 

Toyin Falola and Akintunde Akinyemi (Eds). Encyclopedia of the Yoruba. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2016. 371pp.   357

Ibrahim A. Odugbemi

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yorùbá Studies Review (YSR)

 

The Yorùbá Studies Review is a refereed biannual journal dedicated to the study of the experience of the Yorùbá peoples and their descendants globally. The journal covers all aspects of the Yorùbá transnational, national, and regional presence, both in their West Africa's homeland and in diasporic spaces, past and present. The journal embraces all disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, and the basic /applied sciences in as much as the focus is on the Yorùbá affairs and the intersections with other communities and practices worldwide. The journal will foster and encourage interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary approaches dealing with a wide range of theoretical and applied topics including, but not limited to: cultural production, identities, religion, arts and aesthetics, history, language, knowledge system, philosophy, gender, media, popular culture, education and pedagogy, politics, business, economic issues, social policy, migration, geography and landscape, environment, health, technology, and sustainability.

 

 

Editors

 

Tóyìn Fálọlá, Department of History, The University of Texas at Austin.

Akíntúndé Akínyẹmí, Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, University of Florida, Gainesville

Àrìnpé G. Adéjùmọ̀, Department of Linguistics and African Languages, University of Ibadan, Nigeria.

 

The Yorùbá Studies Review is hosted by three institutions:

The University of Texas at Austin

The University of Florida, Gainesville

The University of Ibadan, Nigeria

 

Editorial Assistants/Business Managers

U.S.A.: Luis Cataido luiscataldo23@utexas.edu

Nigeria : Adeshina Afolayan adeshinaafolayan@gmail.com  

 

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Please Note

Opinions expressed in the Yorùbá Studies Review are not necessarily those of the editorial staff. The order of publication of individual articles does not imply relative merit.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Toyin Falola

Department of History

The University of Texas at Austin

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