1st Edition

African Indigenous Knowledges in a Postcolonial World Essays in Honour of Toyin Falola

    306 Pages
    by Routledge

    306 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book argues that ancient and modern African indigenous knowledges remain key to Africa’s role in global capital, technological and knowledge development and to addressing her marginality and postcoloniality.

    The contributors engage the unresolved problematics of the historical and contemporary linkages between African knowledges and the African academy, and between African and global knowledges. The book relies on historical and comparative political analysis to explore the global context for the application of indigenous knowledges for tackling postcolonial challenges of knowledge production, conflict and migration, and women’s rights on the continent in transcontinental African contexts.

    Asserting the enduring potency of African indigenous knowledges for the transformation of policy, the African academy and the study of Africa in the global academy, this book will be of interest to scholars of African Studies, postcolonial studies and decolonisation and global affairs.

    1. Introduction: Global Africa, Postcoloniality and Indigenous Knowledges
    2. Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso, Ngozi Nwogwugwu and Gift Ntiwunka

      Part One : African Knowledges in the African Academy

    3. Sociology in Africa: Between Domestication and Indigenization
    4. Ndukaeze Nwabueze

    5. Rethinking the Neo-Liberal Agenda: Sokoto Caliphate Political Thought as Alternative
    6. Shuaibu Mohammed

    7. Women Academics and Historiography in the Nigerian University
    8. Aisha Balarabe Bawa

    9. Indigenous Strategies and Settings for Peace Education and Values among the Yoruba
    10. Musibau Olabamiji Oyebode

      Part Two: Indigenous Conflict Resolution Systems

    11. African Youths and Indigenous Approaches to Resolving Conflicts in Africa
    12. Joan Ugo Mbagwu

    13. Indigenous Knowledge System of Conflict Resolution in Africa: Sudanese Peace Processes, 1970-2011
    14. Bayo Thomas Asala

    15. Pre-Colonial Diplomacy in Igbo Land: Rationale, Means and Benefits
    16. Francis C. Odeke

      Part Three: Transnational Gender Policy and Women’s Rights

    17. Transnational Funding for Women’s Rights Advocacy on Affirmative Action in Nigeria
    18. Adebusola Omotola Okedele

    19. Gender Inclusion and the Implementation of Fadama III in Abuja, Nigeria
    20. Olusola E. Akintola and Phillip A. Oyadiran

    21. Patriarchy, Feminism and the African Woman’s Quest for Happiness in Aidoo’s Changes and Emecheta’s The Joys of Motherhood
    22. Bosede Funke Afolayan

    23. Indigenous Household Menu Production and Food Security: A Paradigm Shift
    24. Cecilia Abiodun Olarewaju and Mary Tomilola Olaniyan

      Part Four : Media and Political Discourses

    25. Beyond the Failing Justice System: The Emerging Confluence of Mob Justice and the Social Media in Nigeria
    26. Temitope Yetunde Bello

    27. Of Discourse: Politics and the Nigerian Woman
    28. Adepeju Mariam Ogbogbo

    29. Wisdom-Imbecility Manipulation: Theorizing Political Communication Trends in Northern Nigeria
    30. Sama’ila Shehu

      Part Five: African and Global Migration Management

    31. The Influx of Igbo Migrants and Intergroup Relations in Zaria, 1900-1965
    32. V. S. Akran and Nathaniel John Odoh

    33. Globalisation and African Migration to Libya
    34. Mary Aniefiok William

    35. The Paradox of Regional Migration Management: The AU and EU Joint Africa Partnership Agreement

    Eyitayo Folasade Adewumi and Oluwatosin Adeola Adegbite

    Biography

    Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso is Professor of Political Science at Babcock University, Nigeria.

    Ngozi Nwogwugwu is Senior Research Fellow at the Nigerian Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies (NILDS) and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at Babcock University, Nigeria.

    Gift Ntiwunka is Associate Professor of Public Administration and Gender Studies in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Babcock University, Nigeria.