Decolonizing African Knowledge: Autoethnography and African Epistemologies - Rilegato

Falola, Toyin

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ISBN 10: 1316511235 ISBN 13: 9781316511237

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2022

Riassunto

Uses textual and visual materials on the 'Self' to understand how African ways of thinking shape the nature of societies.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Toyin Falola is Professor of History, University Distinguished Teaching Professor, and the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities, at the University of Texas at Austin. He had served as the General Secretary of the Historical Society of Nigeria, the President of the African Studies Association, Vice-President of UNESCO Slave Route Project, and the Kluge Chair of the Countries of the South, Library of Congress. He is a member of the Scholars' Council, Kluge Center, the Library of Congress. He has received over thirty lifetime career awards and fifteen honorary doctorates. He has written extensively on African knowledge systems, including Religious Beliefs and Knowledge Systems in Africa (2021), African Spirituality, Politics and Knowledge Systems: Sacred Words and Holy Realm (2021) and Decolonizing African Studies: Knowledge Production, Agency and Voice (2022). He is also the series co-editor for Cambridge University Press's series African Identities.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2022
• ISBN 10: 1316511235
• ISBN 13: 9781316511237
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 524
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile