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Toyin Falola is one of modern Africa's most prolific public intellectuals. This project seeks to illuminate the mind of this modern master in an age of transnationalisation.
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Part 1: A Long Introduction Divided into Several Segments; Introduction; The Yoruba: Falola's Tactile Ethnic Home; Toyin Falola; Public Engagement and an Exercise ; in Pan-Africanism; Scholarship of Transdisciplinarity and Interculturality; The Significance of Orisa; Unfinished Business; Bibliography; Part 2: An interview section; Index
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Sanya Osha holds a PhD in Philosophy and taught the discipline in Nigerian universities for a decade. He has published extensively on anthropology, cultural studies, knowledge systems of Africa, the politics of the West African region, and the sociopolitical and cultural realities of Southern Africa. He has undertaken extensive research on the discursive status of African systems of knowledge. He also spent a decade studying and teaching the sociological and political aspects of innovations studies. As an academic, he has held research positions at Smith College in the USA, the University of Groningen and the African Studies Centre in the Netherlands, and in South Africa at the Universities of Kwa-Zulu-Natal, University of South Africa, and the Africa Institute for South Africa (AISA). He has also delivered lectures at University of Johannesburg and Stellenbosch University, South Africa.
Some of his publications include, Kwasi Wiredu: The Text, Writing and Thought in Africa (2005), Postethnophilosophy (2011), African Postcolonial Modernity: Informal Subjectivities and the Democratic Consensus (2014), Dani Nabudere's Afrikology: A Quest for African Holism (2018) and Ken Saro-Wiwa's Shadow (Expanded Edition): Politics, Nationalism and the Ogoni Protest Movement (2021).
