- 326 pages
- English
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About this book
This book questions colonial and apartheid ideologies on being human and being African, ideologies that continue to shape how research is conceptualised, taught and practiced in universities across Africa. Africans immersed in popular traditions of meaning-making are denied the right, by those who police the borders of knowledge, to think and represent their realities in accordance with the civilisations and universes they know best. Often, the ways of life they cherish are labelled and dismissed too eagerly as traditional knowledge by some of the very African intellectual elite they look to for protection. The book makes a case for sidestepped traditions of knowledge. It draws attention to Africas possibilities, prospects and emergent capacities for being and becoming in tune with its creativity and imagination. It speaks to the nimble-footed flexible-minded frontier African at the crossroads and junctions of encounters, facilitating creative conversations and challenging regressive logics of exclusionary identities. The book uses Amos Tutuolas stories to question dualistic assumptions about reality and scholarship, and to call for conviviality, interconnections and interdependence between competing knowledge traditions in Africa.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Praise for this Book
- About the Book
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Foreword
- Chapter One - A Preview
- Chapter Two - Dominant and Dormant Epistemologies of Africa
- Chapter Three - Tutuola and the Extravagant Illusion of Completeness
- Chapter Four - Keeping Alive Popular Ideas of Reality
- Chapter Five - The Palm-Wine Drinkard and the Challenge of Dichotomies
- Chapter Six - Activation, Potency and Efficacy in Tutuola’s Universe
- Chapter Seven - Tutuola in Conversation with the Cameroon Grassfields and Beyond
- Chapter Eight - Conclusion: Tutuola’s Legacy
- References
- Back cover