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How may we conceptualize Africa in the driver's seat of her own
destiny in the twenty-first century? How practically may her
cultures become the foundation and driving force of her innovation,
development, and growth in the age of the global knowledge economy?
How may the Africanist disciplines in the humanities, the social
sciences, and the natural sciences be revamped to rise up to these
challenges through new imaginaries of intersectional reflection?
This book assembles lectures given by Pius Adesanmi that address
these questions. Adesanmi sought to create an African world of
signification in which verbal artistry interpellates performer and
audience in a heuristic process of knowledge production. The
narrative and delivery of his arguments, the antiphonal call and
response, and the aspects of Yoruba oratory and verbal resources
all combine with diction and borrowings from Nigerian popular
culture to create a distinct African performative mode. T his mode
becomes a form of resistance, specifically against the pressure to
conform to Western ideals of the packaging, standardization, and
delivery of knowledge. Together, these short essays preserve the
committed and passionate voice of an African writer lost far too
soon. Adesanmi urges his readers to commit themselves to Africa's
cultural agency.
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