1st Edition
Fela Kuti, African Indigenous Knowledges, Politics, and Culture An Interdisciplinary Discourse on Music, Power, and Tradition
Section One: Fela Kuti: Music, Power, And Philosophy
Chapter 1. Fela Kuti and African Indigenous Knowledges
Gloria Emeagwali
Chapter 2. Language, Revolt and Discursive Metaphors in Fela Kuti’s Shuffering and Shmiling and Beast of No Nation
Mogbolahan Olalekan Oduola
Chapter 3. On Responsibility and Recognition: Fela Anikulapo-Kuti’s Postcolonial Vibes
Dominic James Aboi
Chapter 4. Christian and Yoruba Paradigms on the Good and the Bad: Virtue and Vice in Fela Anikulapo-Kuti’s Philosophy
Akinmayowa Akin-Otiko
Chapter 5. The Poetics of Sorrow Tears and Blood and the Kalakuta Philosophy in Selected Documentary Cinema on Fela Anikulapo Kuti Osakue Omoera and Victor Osar Ihidero
Chapter 6. Fela and the Movement of the People
Biko Agozino
Chapter 7. Afrobeat, Reggae and Black Liberation
Steiner Ifekwe
Section Two: Indigenous Knowledges and Culture
Chapter 8. Indigenous Knowledge Systems as Cultural Identities in Nigerian Traditional Music: A Praxis on the Knowledge Production of the Ayan Systam
Olupemi Oludare and Albert Oikelome
Chapter 9. Nigeria’s Popular Music: A Study of Adeolu Akinsanya’s Highlife Music
Morohunfola Kayode
Chapter 10. Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Climate: Borana Predictive Mechanisms and Sustainability
Girma Defere Tegegn
Chapter 11. Appraising Cultural Preservation in Uganda and the Rest of Africa through the Works and Legacies of Okot p’Bitek
Harrison Adewale Idowu and Ousmane Lesene Sano
Chapter 12. A Post-Colonial Interpretation of Oladejo Akande’s Art
Musa Ajibola Alawode and Adewale Olufunlola Yoade
Section Three: Local and Global Politics
Chapter 13. The Political Economy of Universal Health Coverage for Maternal Health in Nigeria
Kingsley Ogunne and Olu Awofeso
Chapter 14. Afro-Indigenous Environmental Ethics and the Rural-Urban Drift in Africa
Mark Omorovie Ikeke
Chapter 15. Foreign Aid as the Bane of Nigeria’s Environmental Woes
Ugo Aniga
Chapter 16. Rethinking Human Development for Accelerated African Growth: Indigenous Knowledge Framework and Strategies
Olawale R. Olaopa and Yusuf O. Akinwale
Chapter 17. Rethinking International Relations: Afro-Pessimism and the Depiction of Africa in International Relations Theory
Emmanuel Oluniyi Ademola
Chapter 18. African Studies (Africa) and the Challenges to Western Misrepresentation
Musa Ajibola Alawode and Adewale Olufunlola Yoade
Biography
Gloria Emeagwali is Professor of History and African Studies at Central Connecticut State University.
