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USA Africa Dialogue Series - Countdown to TF@65 Conference, Update 2: List of Abstracts

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LIST OF ABSTRACTS ACCEPTED

FOR THE TOYIN FALOLA @ 65 CONFERENCE:

AFRICAN KNOWLEDGES AND ALTERNATIVE FUTURES

29-31 January 2018

The University of Ibadan, Nigeria

1)      Rhizomatic and Arboreal Intelligence: In Search of Toyin Falola

Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju

Compcros, Comparative Cognitive Processes and Systems, Nigeria

 

 

2)      'Ibadanpolis': Visualizing and Rethinking the Metropolis on the Hill

Aderonke Adesola Adesanya

School of Art, Design and Art History, James Madison University, USA

 

 

3)      Joseph Odùmósù's Ìwé Ìwòsàn or Book of Healing: Its Content, Context, and Afterlives

Michael Oladejo Afoláyan, PhD, and Helen Tilley, PhD

Northwestern University, USA

 

 

4)      African Women in Politics: Past, Present and the Future

Damilola T. Agbalajobi

Department of Political Science, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria

 

 

5)      Back to the Future: Rethinking African Knowledge and External Intervention in African Conflicts

Prof. Isaac Olawale Albert

Director, Institute for Peace and Strategic Studies, University of Ibadan, Nigeria

 

 

6)      The Role of Intellectuals and African Future: Exploration into the Contributions of Prof. Toyin Falola in Historical Scholarship

Mukhtar Umar Bunza

Professor of Social History, Department of History, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, Nigeria

 

 

7)      Lessons from Toyin Falola's Ways of Thinking

Bola Dauda

Independent

 

 

8)      Questioning the Modern Nation-State in Africa: Nigerian Restructuring Debates in Perspective

Sati U. Fwatshak

University of Jos, Nigeria

 

 

9)      Power, Politics, and Pilgrimage: The Hajj and Colonial Ideology in Nigeria, 1903-1927

Matthew Heaton

Virginia Tech, USA

 

 

10)  Liberated Africans from the Bight of Benin Hinterland

Henry B. Lovejoy

The University of California, Los Angeles, USA

 

 

11)  Falola and the Future of the Humanities in Africa

Olabode Ibironke

Rutgers University, USA

 

 

12)  Transnational Religious Movement and Knowledge Production in Africa and the African Diaspora: A Critical Appraisal

Samson O. Ijaola

Samuel Adegboyega University, Ogwa, Edo State, Nigeria

 

 

13)  Falolaist Cultural Brokerage and the Pan-African Agenda

Malami Buba

Sokoto State University, Nigeria & Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (HUFS), Korea

 

 

14)  Securitised Nationalism and Borders: Towards a Decolonisation of Borders in the SADC?

Dr Inocent Moyo

Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, The University of Zululand, South Africa

 

 

15)  Mediatizing and Gendering Pan-Africanism for 'Glocal' Impacts

Dr. Omotoso, Sharon Adetutu

Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan, Nigeria

 

 

16)  Pan-African Doctoral Schools and Knowledge Production in Africa: Experiences, Issues, and Testimonials of Participants

Dr Blessing Nonye Onyima

Sociology/Anthropology, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Nigeria

 

 

17)  African Evangelicals in the Diaspora and Transformations in American Religious Space

Professor Adebayo Oyebade

Tennessee State University, USA

 

 

18)  Metahistory: Toyin Falola and the Work of Yoruba Intellectualism

Bukola Adeyemi Oyeniyi

Missouri State University, USA

 

 

19)  Writing African Women from the Margins: Feminist Epistemologies, Women and knowledge production in Africa

Prof. Bridget A. Teboh
Department of History,University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth
 
 
20)  Removing The Debris

Segun Ogungbemi                                                                                                                         Nigeria

 

21)  The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth: Insights and Lessons for Contemporary Nigerian Society

Samuel Zalanga                                                                                                        Professor of Sociology, Department of Anthropology,                                          Sociology and Reconciliation Studies, Bethel University, Saint Paul, MN, USA

 

22)  The African Past in the Future: Resource or Relic?

Alinah Segobye

 

 

23)  Nigeria since 2014: Restructuring or Dismemberment?

Egodi Uchendu (PhD) and Emmanuel T. Eyeh (PhD)

History & International Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka

 

 

24)  Narrative—Convergence and Dispersion in the Writings of Falola

Michael Vickers

Emeritus Director of Parliamentary and Public Affairs,

The Hillfield Agency (UK)

 

 

25)  Strategic Reflections on Africa's Developmental Dilemma, Lead City University (Co-Host Sponsored Panel)

 

 

26)  Pan-Africanism in the Age of Globalization

Tunde Oseni, PhD

Department of Politics & International Relations, Lead City University, Ibadan, Nigeria

 

 

27)  Co-operative Societies and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): A Viable Model in Human Development of Nigeria

Akanji, Ajibola Anthony

Department of Politics and International Relations, Lead City University, Ibadan

 

 

28)  Technology Acquisition and National Development in Nigeria

Chukwuebuka Akuche

Department of Politics and International Relations, Lead City University, Ibadan, Nigeria

 

 

29)  Nigeria and the Problem of Corruption: Exploring the Innovation of Reputational Sanctions

Olu Ojedokun

Department of Politics & International Relations,

Lead City University, Ibadan &

Jamila Bisi Aduke Suleiman

Centre for Peace and Security Studies, Modibbo Adama University of Technology, Yola, Adamawa State, Nigeria

 

30)  Managing The Quest For Good Governance In Nigeria Post-1999; A Patent Illusion?                                                                                               Babatunde Oyedeji                                                                                                   Department of Politics and International Relations, Lead City University, Ibadan

 

31)  Between Capital Social Infrastructure and Recurrent Stomach Infrastructure: A Practical Philosophical Contribution to the Poverty Policy and Discourse in Nigeria

Dr. Badru, Ronald Olufemi                                                                                         Lecturer-in-Philosophy and Politics, Department of Politics & International Relations,          Lead City University, Ibadan, Nigeria &Senior Research Fellow, Institut Francais de Recherche en Afrique, IFRA-Nigeria

 

32)  D.A. Obasa and Indigenous Knowledge Production in Colonial Nigeria

The University of Florida (Co-Host Sponsored Panel)

 

33)  Multiplicity of Identities of D.A. Ọbasá                                                                   Taiwo,  Adekemi Agnes                                                                                           Department of Linguistics & Nigerian Languages, Ekiti State University, Nigeria

 

34)  Poetic Utterance and Socio-Political Commitment in Ọbasa's Poems                    Lérè Adéyẹmí                                                                                                     Department of Linguistics and Nigerian Languages, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria

 

 

35)  A Critical Appraisal of Ethics of Inter-Personal Relations in Ọbasá's Poetry Ayọ̀délé Solomon Oyewale                                                                                  Department of Linguistics, African & Asian Studies, University of Lagos, Àkọkà, Lagos, Nigeria

 

36)  Didacticism and Philosophical Tenets in Obasa's Poetry                                     Arinpe G Adejumo                                                                                               Department of Linguistics and African Languages, University of Ibadan

 

 

37)  The Form and Content of Ọbasá's Weekly Newspaper: Yorùbá News              Clement Adeniyi Akangbe                                                                                         Department of Library, Archival and Information Studies, University of Ibadan, Nigeria

 

38)  A Critical Assessment of Editorial Opinions in Yoruba News                                     Taiwo Olunlade                                                                                                   Department of African Languages Literatures and Communication Arts, Lagos State University

 

 

39)  Yoruba News as Political Tool and Avenue for Cultural Revival
Abidemi Bolarinwa                                                                                            Department of Linguistics and African Languages, University of Ibadan

 

40)  Serialization of Ọbasa's poems in the Yorùbá News newspaper                       Tolulope Ibikunle                                                                                                      Department of Linguistics and African Languages, University of Ibadan

 

 

41)  A Comparative Study of Yoruba News and Alaroye                                              Adefemi Akinseloyin                                                                                              Department of Linguistics and African Languages, University of Ibadan

 

42)  Poetic Exploration of Obasa's Prolegomenous Poetry                                            Duro Adeleke                                                                                                        Linguistics & African Languages, University of Ibadan, Ibadan

 

 

43)  Representation of Women in Ọbasá's Poetry                                                              Ayọ̀ọlá Àránsí Ọládùnńkẹ́ and Hakeem Ọláwálé                                                          Department Of Linguistics, African and European Languages,                                  Kwara State University, Màlété

 

44)  The Yorùbá Social Values in Ọbasá's Poetry                                                           Saudat Adebisi Olayide Hamzat and Hezekiah Olufemi Adeosun                            Department of Linguistics & Nigerian Languages,                                               University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Kwara State

 

 

45)  Portrayal of Social Vices in D.A. Obasa's Poetry                                                Abiodun Oluwafemi                                                                                           Department of Linguistics and African Languages, Obafemi Awolowo University

 

46)  When Translation Fails, What Next?: The Burden of Translating Obasa's Poetry into English                                                                                                          Akintunde Akinyemi                                                                                               University of Florida

 

 

47)  Contemporary Explorations of History and Society                                              Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto (Co-Host Sponsored Panel)

 

48)  Religious NGOs and Grassroots Development in Nigeria: Some Selected Case Studies in the Northwest 1980s- to present                                                                  Professor Mukhtar Umar Bunzam                                                                      Department of History, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, Nigeria

 

 

49)  Women Academics and historiography in the Nigerian University

Aisha Balarabe Bawa PhD                                                                                       Department of History, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, Nigeria

 

 

50)  State, Economy and Religious Activism in Northern Nigeria: A Periscopic view on Maitatsine and Boko-Haram Uprisings                                                                   Abubakar Sama'ila, PhD                                                                                         Department of History, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto-Nigeria

 

 

51)  An Overview of Nigeria's Produce Inspection and Related Regulations in the Second Half of the Colonial Period                                                                                 Aminu Umar Alkammawa                                                                                        Department of History, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto

 

 

52)  African Languages and Knowledge Systems: An Examination of Hausa Influence on Yoruba Vocabulary of Ara Ilorin                                                                              Z. S.  Sambo                                                                                                          Department of History, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto

 

 

53)  Fulani Traditional Knowledge System and the Economy of Farmer-Herder Conflicts In Contemporary Nigeria                                                                                  Murtala Ahmed Rufa'i                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Department of History, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, Nigeria

 

 

54)  Pan-African Knowledge Production and the Imperative of Thought Liberation for Development in Africa                                                                                            Samuel O Oloruntoba and Vusi Gumede                                                                      Thabo Mbeki Africa Leadership Institute, University of South Africa

 

 

55)  Uncovering the Merits of African Justice with the Help of the Receptor Approach to Human Rights                                                                                                                 Serges Djoyou Kamga

Associate Prof at the Thabo Mbeki African Leadership Institute, (UNISA); and

Tom Zwart

Professor of Cross Cultural Human Rights at The University of Utrecht

 

 

56)  Towards an Afrodecolonial Curriculum at Universities: A South African Perspective                                                                                                                          Edith Phaswana (PhD)

Thabo Mbeki African Leadership Institute, UNISA

 

 

57)  Extending the Ritual Archive: Mokhokha as an African Epistemology of the Body           Dikeledi A. Mokoena

Thabo Mbeki African Leadership institute, University of South Africa

 

 

58)  Human Security in Africa                                                                                             Aluko Opeyemi  Idowu

Department of Political Science, Kwara State University, Ilorin; and

Ishola Ajadi

Department of Public Administration, University of Ilorin

 

 

59)  Equating Gender Equality with Gender Security: A Democratic Gender Discourse   Osezua .Ehiyamen..PhD,

Department of Public Administration, University of Ilorin

Aluko Opeyemi Idowu

Political Science Department, University of Ilorin

Dr.Clementina Osezua

Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Obafemi Awolowo University,Ile –Ife; Akindele Iyiola Ph.D

Department of Public Administration, University of Ilorin

 

 

60)  Freedom, Democracy and Security in Africa                                                   Dr.Samuel Oyedele

Bello Mohammed Lawan; and

Abdulkareem Abdulrazaq Kayode,

Department of Public Administration, University of Ilorin

 

 

61)  Development and Inclusion in Urban and Rural Areas                                     Dr.Samuel Oyedele

Bello Mohammed Lawan,

Abdulkareem Abdulrazaq Kayode; and

Umar Abubakar Yaru

Department of Public Administration, University of Ilorin

 

 

62)  Democratic Freedom and Security Challenges in Developing Democracies: The Nexus and Implications                                                                                             Osezua Ehiyamen, Ph.D

Department of Public Administration, University of Ilorin

 

 

63)  Nation Building Efforts In Nigeria: Repositioning N.Y.S.C For Better Service Delivery

Aborisade, Daniel Atilade

Department Of Political Science and Public Administration,

Babcock University, Ilishan-Remo, Ogun State.Nigeria

 

 

64)  Transnational Feminism and its Impact on Knowledge Production in Nigerian Universities: An Exploratory Study

Olutayo Molatokunbo

Abiola Seun; and

Yalley Abena Asefuaba

Gender Studies Programme, Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan, Nigeria

 

 

65)  Bureaucratic Ethos and Development in Africa: The Nigerian Experience            Abu Idris;  and

Otinche Sunday Inyokwe (PhD)

Department of Public Administration, Faculty of Management and Social Sciences IBB University, Lapai-Niger State

 

 

66)  Colonial Antecedents and its Continuing Impact: Nigeria in Perspective       Mustapha Sule Lamido; and

Abubakar Aliyu Rafindadi

Department of Political Science and International Studies,

Faculty of Social Sciences, Ahmadu Bello University Zaria

 

 

67)  Political Parties and Party Politics in Nigeria, a Dilemma of Democracy.      Abubakar Aliyu Rafindadi; and

Abdulfattah Yakubu Alhassan

Department of Political Science and International Studies,

Faculty of Social Sciences, Ahmadu Bello University Zaria

 

 

68)  The Impact of Pre-Colonial Political Institutions on the Yoruba Political Culture in Nigeria's Fourth Republic (1999-2015)                                                                               Abubakar Aliyu Rafindadi; and

Lawal Lateef

Department of Political Science and International Studies,

Faculty of Social Sciences, Ahmadu Bello University Zaria

 

 

69)  Knowledge Production and Pedagogy among the Islamic Scholars in Kano: A Case-Study of Shaykh Tijani Usman Zangon Bare-Bari (1916-1970)

Sani Yakubu Adam

Department of History, Bayero University Kano, Nigeria

 

 

70)  Against Developmentality: Decolonizing  Love and Well-Being in Hegemonic Psychological Science                                                                                                     Glenn Adams

Professor of Psychology, The University of Kansas

 

 

71)  Explaining Nigeria's Diaspora Communities' Transmogrification From State Partners to Challengers                                                                                             Isiaka Abiodun Adams PhD,

Department of Political Science, University of Lagos, Nigeria

 

 

72)  Nollywood and African Spirituality

Adeate Tosin

Department of Philosophy, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria; and

Bankole Olubukola

Department of Linguistic and African Languages, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria

 

 

73)  Non-governmental organisations and protection of internally-displaced persons by pastoralist-farmer conflict in Benue state, Nigeria                                                Adebajo Adeola Aderayo

Tai Solarin University Of Education, Ijagun, Ogun State, Nigeria

 

 

74)  Gender Politics And The Hope Of The African Girl Child In Education

Adebile Ruth Foluke (Ph.D)

Department of Special Education and Curriculum Studies,

Adeyemi College of Education, Ondo, Ondo state , Nigeria

 

 

75)  Development Of Ejigbo Town Through Ejigbo Migrants In Abidjan          Adebodun Olalekan Henry

University of Ibadan

Dr. A.A. Adediran,

Ogwu –Richard V. A.,

Federal College Of Education, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria; and

Dr. Adeyanju H. Idowu

Tai Solarin University Of Education,Ijagun, Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State, Nigeria

 

 

76)  Women and Africa's Quest for Development

Dr. Adefarasin Victor Olusegun

Department Of Philosophy, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Nigeria

 

 

77)  Protestantism, Democracy and Social Development in Nigeria: Reflections on Contemporary Nigerian Writings                                                                 Adegboyega Adeyemi Amos

School of Post Graduate Studies, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University, Lapai

 

 

78)  The Traditional Art And Culture Of Blacksmithing of Ogbomoso: Form, Style And Function                                                                                                    Adegboyega Oyelakin Stephen

Department of Fine Arts, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria

 

 

79)  Popular Music Videos And The Expression Of National Culture In Nigeria                                                                                          Samuel Ayoola Adejube

Performing Arts Department, Faculty of Arts,

Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago Iwoye, Ogun State, Nigeria

 

 

80)  Women In Pre-Colonial Yoruba: A Study of the Documentation Values of Monumental Sculptures                                                                                               Rod Adoh Emi, Ph.D; and

Sam K. Adekoya,

Department of Creative Arts, Tai Solarin University of Education, Ijagun

 

 

81)  Africa in the Global Political-Economy: The Nigerian Experience, 1960-Date Adeniran, Enoch Oluwole

Department of History, Emmanuel Alayande College of Education, Oyo; and Oladipupo, Kolapo Abiobun

Department of Political Science, Emmanuel Alayande College of Education, Oyo

 

 

82)  The Impact of Migration on Crime and Socio-Economic Development in West Africa                                                                                                                               Niyi Adegoke, Ph.D, LL.B

Dept. of Criminology and Security Studies,

Faculty of Social Sciences, National Open University of Nigeria,

University Village, Jabi, Abuja

 

 

83)  Globalization of African Land Reform Schemes: The South African Experience Akinola, Adeoye O. (PhD)

Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Public Administration,

University of Zululand, South Africa

 

 

84)  Re-examining the Yoruba Civilisation through the Visual Arts                                Kehinde Adepegba

Department of Art and Industrial Design,

School of Environmental Studies, Lagos State Polytechnic, Ikorodu; and

Tolulope O. Sobowale

Department of Fine and Applied Arts,

College of Engineering and Environmental Studies,

Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Ibogun Campus, Ogun State

 

 

85)  Re-indigenising Nigerian Economy Through Indigenous Technology: A Clarion Call Towards Industrialization                                                                                                    Kola-Aderoju and Sekinat Adejoke Ph.D

 

 

86)  The Adjudication Of Rape In Traditional Yoruba Society                                           Saidat Tobiloba Adetayo

Department Of Philosophy, University Of Ibadan, Nigeria

 

 

87)  External African Migration And Its Impacts on The Yoruba Identity And Culture                                                                                     Adeyemi Adebola Racheal

University Of Ibadan

 

 

88)  Proliferation Of The Church In Nigeria: Women As The Dynamist.                                                                                        Ajani Tunde Olanrewaju

Adeyemi College Of Education, Ondo; and

Adeyemi Adebola Racheal

College Of Education Ikere, Ekiti State

 

 

89)  African Women, Culture And The Struggle For Recognition                                 Adu, Modupe Olajumoke

Department Of Philosophy, University Of Ibadan

 

 

90)  Why African Culture Is Unpopular? A Critique Of Toyin Falola In The Revival Of African Culture

Sufianu Afeez Ayinde

Department of Philosophy, University of Lagos

 

 

91)  That They Do Not Labour In Vain: British Colonial Exploitation And Expropriation Of Cocoa Industry In Ibadan, South-Western Nigeria

Afolabi Abiodun S. PhD                                                                                           Department of History and International Studies/Unilorin Archives & Documentation Centre (UADC),University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria

 

92)  The Phenomenon Of Suicide: History, Hysteria And Hope In A Multicultural Society                                                                                                                      Abiodun Paul Afolabi

Department of Philosophy, Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko, Ondo State Adebile Oluwaseyi Paul

Department of History and Strategic Studies, University of Lagos

 

 

93)  Ethnicity, Fluid Identities and Nation Building in 19th Century Lagos                     Mary Aderonke Afolabi

Ph.D Candidate, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Kaduna State, Nigeria

 

 

94)  Feminism and the African Woman's Quest for Happiness in Aidoo's Changes and Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood

Bosede Funke Afolayan

Department of Engli University of Lagos, Akoka, Yaba, Lagos

 

 

95)  Ise o kan Oriire: Yoruba Linguistic Conceptualization of Success                          Augustine Agwuele, Ph.D

Department of Anthropology, Texas State University

 

 

96)  Politics of the Other Room: Dynamics of Female Power in Shoneyin's The   Secret    Lives of Baba Segi's Wives                                                                                         Ofure O. M. Aito, PhD.

Department of English and Literary Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Federal University, Lokoja, Kogi State and

Omolola A. Ladele, PhD

Department of English, Faculty of Arts, Lagos State University, Ojoo, Lagos State

 

 

97)  African Leaders and Development- Retrospect, Prospect and Challenges: A Pragramatic View                                                                            Aitufe Veronica Okpowunwa Ph.D

Religious Management and Cultural Studies, Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma

 

 

98)  Africa's Indigenous Language As A Catalyst For Development: A Case Study Of Some West Africa's Indigenous Languages As Tools For Regional Development

Ajani, Akinwumi Lateef (Ph.D)

The Nigeria French Language Village, Ajara – Badagry, Lagos

 

 

99)  The Influx Of Nigerian Church Leaders In Politics: Christians Response To Poor Leadership

Ajani, T.O

Department Of Religious Studies, Adeyemi College Of Education, Ondo;   and Benjamin Etiemana Warri

Department of Religious Studies, University Of Ibadan, Ibadan

 

 

100)Captain Abiodun Christiana Akinsonwon in Christian Religion and Politics

Elizabeth Adenike Ajayi, Dr. Olasunbo Omolara Loko,  Mr. Yomi Odd

 

 

101)Seeking A More Effective Framework To Combat Africa's Under Development

Ogechukwu Ojimaduekwu Ajoku Esq,

Senior lawyer and entrepreneur, formerly of Madonna University

 

 

102)Philanthropy and Corporate Social Responsibility: Its Relevance in Africa  Andrew Akampurira,

Uganda

 

 

103)Women Emancipation: A Threat to Africa's Family Setting                           Andrew Akampurira,

Uganda

 

 

104)Gender Bias in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Injustice to Women                           Andrew Akampurira

Uganda

 

 

105)The Question of Nationalism according to Kwame Nkrumah's Political Thought Andrew Akampurira

Uganda

 

 

106)Effects of Indigenous Music on the Education of an African Child                       Akande Sunday Olufemi

Department of Performing Arts Olabisi Onabanjo University Ago Iwoye, Ogun State, Nigeria

 

 

107)New Englishes And Nigeria's Linguistic Ecology: An Appraisal Of Nigerian News Casters Stress Pattern As Model For Standard Nigerian English                       Akindele, Julianah A. PhD

Department of Languages and Linguistics, Osun State University, Osogbo

 

 

108)Politicising The Politics: The Discourse Of Nigerian Women Politicians Akinrinlewo, Adepeju Mariam

Department of English, Faculty of Arts, University of Ibadan

 

 

109)Gender Inclusion and the Implementation of Fadama III in Gwagwalada Area Council, Abuja

Olusola E. Akintola

Ph.D Candidate, University of Abuja,

Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Abuja;and

Philip Oyadiran, Ph.D

Department of Public Administration, University of Abuja, Abuja, Nigeria

 

 

110)Demolishing The Europeans Misplaced Concept Of African Prints: A Stir At Work

Tunde M.Akinwumi

Professor of Art History (African Textiles and Clothing), Southwestern University, Okun Owa, Ijebu Nigeria

 

111)The Influence of the Kingship Institution on Olojo Festival in Ile-Ife: a Case Study of the Late Ooni Adesoji Aderemi

Akinyemi Yetunde Blessing

Institute of African studies, University of Ibadan, Oyo state, Nigeria.

 

 

112)On The Causes Of The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade: A New Interpretation

Akpu, James Onochie

Department of International Relations,

The Ultimate University of Science and Management Technology, Adjarra, Porto Novo, Republic of Benin

 

 

113)Gender Inequality And Women Participation In Politics: The Nigerian Experience

Alabede, Tunji Sope,

Oduduwa University, Ipetumodu, Ile-Ife, Osun State; and

Giwa, Saheed Adebowale

University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Oyo State

 

 

114)Tinubu, The Yoruba Nation And The Politics Of Statesmanship

Lawal Alabi Bamishigbin

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Political Science, University of Ibadan, Nigeria

 

 

115)Seventh-day Adventist Church Contribution to National Development     Iheanacho Mendel Alala, Ph.D

Clifford University, Owerrinta, Abia State, Nigeria

 

 

116)Identity Politics and Democratic Consolidation in Nigeria

Alao, David Oladimeji Ph.D & Akhimiem Davidson

Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Babcock University, Ilishan-Remo, Ogun State, Nigeria

 

 

117)Can Democracy help the Almajiri Child in Nigeria?                                         Charles, Alfred (PhD)

Research Fellow, Department of Democratic Studies, National Institute for Legislative Studies, National Assembly, FCT, Abuja, Nigeria; and

Dr Osah Goodnews

Dept of Political Science and Public Administration, Babcock University, Ogun State

 

 

118)Challenging the Orthodoxy of the Africa Reparation Debate                           Sameha Alghamdi

PhD Candidate at York University - Department of Social and Political Thought Toronto, Canada

 

 

119)Yoruba Language and Cultural Continuities                                                              Ayanlowo, Oluwatosin Blessing, M.A, M.I.R

History and International Studies Department, Babcock University, Ilishan-Remo, Ogun State

Bello , Alice Adejoke, M.Ed, M.PH

Educational Foundations Department, Babcock University, Ilisan Remo, Ogun State Adeoye,  Ayodele  M.Ed., PhD (Ogun)

Student Support Services, Babcock University, Ilisan Remo, Ogun State

 

 

120)Africanisms in Kaltume Bulama Gana's Art                                              Muhammad, Aliyu (Ph.D)

Department Of Fine Arts, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria

 

 

121)Cultural Environmentalism in Osofisan's Many Colours Make the Thunder-King and Ogunyemi's Langbodo                                                                             Saeedat Bolajoko Aliyu

Department of English at Kwara State University, Malete, Kwara State, Nigeria

 

 

122)Domestic Slavery, Identity Crisis and Peace in Atani, Anambra Sate, Nigeria        Ikenna Mike Alumona

Department of Political Science

Chukwuemeka Odumegwu

Ojukwu University Igbariam; and

Jude Odigbo

Department of Political Science, Kwararafa University, Wukari-Nigeria

 

 

123)The Exclusion of Women In Governance And Security Issues:  Establishing The Cost And Role Of Women In Inequality                                                                     Amaka Theresa Oriaku Emordi PhD

Department Of Political Science,

Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria

 

 

124)Decolonizing Development Through a Recovery of the "Dangerous" Development Ideas of Thomas Sankara

Amber Murrey-Ndewa

The American University in Cairo

 

 

125)Women And Political Participation In Colonial Nigeria                                      Cinderella Temitope Ochu

Department of History and Strategic Studies, University of Lagos, Akoka, Yaba, Lagos State, Nigeria

 

 

126)An Evaluation Of The Emergence And The Role Of Africanist Historiography In The Reconstruction Of African History                                                              Akombo, Elijah Ityavkase, PhD.,

Department Of History & Diplomatic Studies, Taraba State University, Jalingo, Taraba State, Nigeria

Ngah, Loui Njodzevan Wirnkar, Mhsn

Department Of History, College Of Education, Zing, Taraba State, Nigeria. Abdulsalami, Muyiudeen Deji, PhD

Department Of History And Diplomatic Studies,

Taraba State University, Jalingo, Taraba State, Nigeria

 

 

127)Nation Building in Post-Genocide Rwanda                                                                 Anas Elochukwu

The Confucius Institute at Nnamdi Azikiwe University

 

 

128)The Role of Women In The Prevention Of Human Trafficking In Edo State, Nigeria                                                                                                                        Anthonia Okonye

 

 

129)Production of Nigerian History Texts in the Publishing Scene of the 1980s

Arogundade Abdullah Iyanda

Department of History, University of Ibadan

 

 

130)New Trends In Intellectual Property: Trad-Technology Versus Bio-Technology In The Production Of Medicine In Nigeria

Ayoyemi Lawal-Arowolo

Reader of Intellectual Property Law in Babcock University

School of Law and Security Studies and Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria

 

 

131)Indigenous Knowledge System

Bayo Asala

Department of History and Strategic Studies, University of Lagos

 

 

132)Political Islam and State Reconstruction in Africa

'Dele Ashiru, PhD

Department of Political Science, University of Lagos

 

 

133)Pan-Africanism and African Citizenship: The Way Forward

Gabriel Asuquo

Independent Researcher

 

 

134)Mobility, Migration and its Discontent: Insights From Nigeria

Franca Attoh, PhD

Department of Sociology, University of Lagos, Akoka-Yaba, Lagos

 

135)Exploring Patriarchal Visibility in Cisgender Literature and the Problematic of Feminist Subjectivity

Aule Moses

General Studies Unit, Kaduna State University, Kaduna, Nigeria

 

 

136)Women and Knowledge Production in Africa: The Case of Indigenous Textile Entrepreneurs

Awosika Bridget Itunu (Ph.D.)

Adeyemi College of Education, Ondo, Nigeria

 

 

137)Alternative Futures through Entrepreneurial Revolution: the anacea for Youth Empowerment and Sustainable Poverty Reduction

Awosika Bridget Itunu (Ph.D.)

Adeyemi College of Education, Ondo, Nigeria

 

138)Roles of the Artist/Art scholar in Cultural Policy and Cultural Aspect of National Policy on Education.
Ademola Azeez, Ph.D

Department of Fine and Applied Arts,

Federal College of Education (Technical) Akoka,  Lagos, Nigeria .

 

139)African Knowleges and Alternative Futures: What Is And What Is Known

Adesanya Babajide

Freelance Writer & Alter Magazine Lagos

 

 

140)Determinism And Human Agency In Sholla Allyson Obaniyi's Gbe Je Fori

Lawrence O. Bamikole

Department Of Language, Linguistics and Philosophy,

The University of The West Indies, Mona Campus, Jamaica

 

141)Images of Muslim Women in Nigerian Texts and its Implications in Development Studies: A Cross Subject Discourse

Israel Meriomame Wekpe

Department of Theatre Arts and Mass Communication, University of Benin, Nigeria Rukayat N. Banjo

Department of Theatre and Performing Arts, Bayero University, Kano

 

 

142)                            The Indigenous Knowledge of Law in Pre-Colonial Akwa Ibom Area: A Comparative Study of the Similarities and Differences Between the English and African Legal Systems

Dr. Joseph R. Bassey

Department of History & International Studies, Akwa Ibom State University, Nigeria

 

143)African Knowledges and Alternative Futures: A Historical Discourse

Dr. Bello Bala Diggi

Department of History and International Studies,

Federal University Birnin Kebbbi, Kebbi State – Nigeria

 

 

144)Beyond The Failing Justice System: The Emerging Confluence Of Mob Justice And The Social Media In Nigeria

Bello Temitope Yetunde (Mrs)

Institute for Peace and Strategic Studies, The University   of Ibadan, Nigeria

 

145)A Historical Appraisal Of The Educational Policies Of Selected Civilian Administrations In Lagos State, 1979-2015

Boge, Faruq Idowu

Department of History and International Studies

Lagos State University Foundation Programme, Badagry, Lagos

 

 

146)A Critical Discourse Analysis Of Nigerian 2015 Presidential Campaigns

Rita Bossan (Ph.D)

Department of English and Drama, Kaduna State University, Kaduna, Nigeria

 

147)Africans to HALFricans

Caroline Adebimpe,

Nigeria

 

 

148)Coloniality Of Knowledge And The Contemporary World Order

Chidochashe Nyere

Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, Republic of South Africa

 

149)The Obfuscates of Almajirai and the Rights to Secular Education in Northern Nigeria

Chukwunka, C.A.C.

Criminology and Security Studies, National Open University of Nigeria, Nnamdi Azikiwe Expressway, Jabi, Abuja

 

150)Proverbs Speak Louder Than Actions: The Example of a Modern Yoruba Household

Oluwole Coker,Ph.D

Department of English,Obafemi Awolowo University,Ile-Ife, Nigeria

 

151)African Traditional Perspectives On Sentencing, Victim's Rights And Recidivism

Oluwole Dasylva

Research Fellow, National Defence College, Abuja

 

152)Leadership, Governance Crisis and the Challenge of Grassroot Development: A Focus on Ijebu North-East Local Government Area, Ogun State, 2003-2017            J. O. Nkwede

Department of Political Science, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State

K. O. Dauda

A. O. Moliki

Department of Political Science, Tai Solarin University of Education, Ijagun, OgunState

O. A. Orija

Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, Nigeria

 

 

153)Thought Processes And Convictions On Poverty Among The Yoruba

Tunde Decker                                                                                                                Department of History and International Studies, Osun State University, Osogbo, Nigeria

 

154)The African National Congress (ANC) and the Ethnic-Inspired Factionalism in Exile

Chitja Twala

Department of History, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa

 

 

155)Politiques de sécurité, dépenses de sécurité en Afrique subsaharienne: Une            évaluation par la technique de la frontière stochastique (SFA)

M. Foungnigué Noé Coulibaly

Doctorant-Chercheur, UFR des Sciences Economique et de Développement,    Université Alassane Ouattara – Bouaké

 

156)Slaving Strategies in Early Central Africa: Linguistic Evidence of Slavery and      Captivity in the Last Millenia B.C.E.

Marcos Leitão de Almeida

Northwestern University

 

 

157)Suitable Laborers: Africans and Asian Indentured Servants in Post-Slavery Jamaica

Ruma Chopra

 

 

158)The African Presence At Pernambuco Speech: Lexical Contributions

Edmilson José de Sá (CESA/UFPA/CNPq),

Professor at the Centro de Ensino Superior de Arcoverde, Brazil

 

 

159)Election, Technology And Political Sustainability

Irhue Young Kenneth (Ph.D)

Department Of Political Science And International Relations, Osun State, University,      Okuku Campus, Osun State

 

 

160)An Examination Of The Socio-Economics And Political Implications Of Ethnic Diversity On National Integration In Nigeria

Oyewale, Aderemi Oyetunde Ph.D

Department Of Social Studies, Emmanuel Alayande College Of Education, Oyo

 

 

161)Challenges of Females' Participation in Nigerian Politics

Ebobo Urowoli Christiana

Department of Criminology and Security Studies

Faculty of Social Sciences, National Open University of Nigeria, Jabi, Abuja

 

 

162)Intellectuals and African Development

HRH Eze Egwuogu, Bonny Ikenna,PhD.

Dept of Political Science, Imo State University, Owerri

 

 

163)Intellectuals and Issues In African Development

Ekaette Umanah Ekong (PhD)

Department of History and International Studies, University of Uyo

 

 

164)Transhumance, Small Arms Proliferation and Security Challenges in Igboland since 1970

Vincent-Anene

Prince Okwudili Mbalisi

Nnaemeka Chinedu PhD

Department of History and International Relations,Paul University, Awka

 

 

165)An Overview Of The Legal Regime Of Border Region Development In Nigeria

Eniola Bolanle Oluwakemi, PhD

Faculty of Law, Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria

 

 

166)National   Defence   and Production of Mass Destruction: Option for Nigeria's Participation and Relevance in Global Politics

Erinosho, T.O.  PhD

Department Of History And Diplomatic Studies, Tai Solarin University of Education, Ijagun, Ogun State, Nigeria

 

 

167)The Influence Of African Culture On Modern Music: A Global Dimension

Etuk, Akaninyene Ufot and Oliseh, Kadishi Ndudi

Department of History, University of Ibadan, Ibadan Nigeria

 

 

168)Africa's Development Quagmire And The Imperative Of Adopting Indigenous Direct Development Strategy For Economic Emancipation

Ini Etuk, Ph.D

Department Of History And International Studies, University Of Uyo, Uyo

 

 

169)Peace And Security For Development In Africa: The Road Not Taken

Etuk, Akaninyene Ufot

Department of History, University of Ibadan

 

 

170)Early Childhood Development and the Praxis of Pan-Africanism

Evelyn Kissi

York University, Canada

 

 

171)Agency vs Scapegoatism: The Jamaican Experience

Okechukwu Ezenne

 

 

172)The Legislature, Corruption And The Quest For Good Governance In Nigeria: Can The Application Of The Indigenous Knowledge System Of Political Administration Provide A Succour?

Omololu Fagbadebo, PhD and Fayth Ruffin, PhD

School of Management, IT & Governance, University of KwaZulu-Natal

 

 

173)The Trend Of Labour Migration In Akokoland: A Neglected Aspect Of Akokoland, Southwestern Nigeria's Economic History, 1952-1980

Falowo,Ajagun Segun Ph.D                                                                                              Department of History, Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education,  Ijanikin, Lagos, Nigeria

 

 

174)Agricultural Policies Of The Yoruba Of Western Nigeria From The Earliest Times To 1900

Familugba Jonathan Oluropo (Ph.D)                                                                                       Department of History,College of Education,Ikere – Ekiti, Ekiti State,Nigeria

 

 

175)'Oju Ni Oro Wa': A Model Of Communication For Software Development In Digital Humanities

Akin-Otiko Akinmayowa PhD and Augustine Akintunde Farinola

 

 

176)Conjugal Family; A Platform For Women Education And   Political Leadership.

Fasiku, Adesola Mercy Ph.D                                                                                                Department of Social Studies, College of Education, Ikere- Ekiti, Ekiti State

 

 

177)It's Not Mud's Fault: The Problematics of Using and not Using Mud in Contemporary 'African' Architecture

Oluwabunmi Fayiga                                                                                                              Princeton University

 

 

178)Women in African history and politics: A Case of Women in Pre-Colonial Ekiti Society

Funmilayo Idowu Agbaje Ph.D                                                                                              Research Management Office, University of Ibadan

 

 

179)Waka Into Bondage: Ndidi Dike's Performance Installation And The Creative Reenactment Of Slave Trade

Kunle Filani (MFA,PhD)

Federal College of Education, (Technical), Akoka,Yaba,Lagos.

 

 

180)Christianity and Economic Development in Nigeria: A Sociological Perspective.

Azeez Oluwakemi. H                                                                                                              Department Of Religious Studies, University Of Ibadan

Adeniyi Oluwabukola A.                                                                                                        Department Of Religious Studies, University Of Ibadan

 

181)An Arabistʼs Inventory of the Arabic Loan Words in Yoruba Language

Dr. Mikail Adebisi Folorunsho                                                                                            Department of Languages & Linguistics, College of Humanities & Culture (Ikire Campus),  Osun State University, Osogbo, Nigeria

 

 

182)Colonial Ideologies of Legitimization and Their Resilience in Post-colonial Africa

Funmilola Olorunfemi                                                                                                          Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko

 

 

183)'HAIL THE CENSUS NIGHT': Trust and Political Imagination in the 1960 Population Census of Ghana

Gerardo Serra                                                                                                                             Nantes Institute of Advanced Study

 

 

184)Impact Of Youth Corners and Knowledge About Human Sexuality Among Young Adults And Adolescents Of Nigerian Population In The Prevention Of Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Ayodeji Faremi                                                                                                                   Department of Medical Laboratory science, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology &

Gabriel I. Oke                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Adolescent& Youth Friendly Center, Osun state, Nigeria

 

 

185)African Indigenous Knowledge: Expounding the Rationale to Move from Discourse to Provention

Peter Genger                                                                                                                                PhD Candidate,Arthur Mauro Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS)                University of Manitoba, Winnipeg

 

 

186)Towards an African Indigenous Peacemaking Pedagogy: Rediscovery, Recovery, Reclamation, and Application (RRRA)

Genger Peter                                                                                                                                 PhD Student; and                                                                                                                   Mayanja Evelyn                                                                                                                             PhD Candidate                                                                                                                             Arthur Mauro Center for Peace and conflict Studies, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg

 

 

187)The Life And Times Of Efunsetan Aniwura And Osofisan's Depiction Of The Feminine Gender In Women Of Owu

Adeoti Oluwatomi                                                                                                                     Gobir Mariam Titilope                                                                                                         Department Of English, Kwara State University, Malete, Kwara State, Nigeria

 

 

188)An Appraisal of Colonial Ethnography in Nigeria

Musa Oluwaseyi Hambolu                                                                                                           Department of Archaeology and Heritage Studies, University of Jos, Nigeria

 

 

189)Migration And Yoruba Identities: An Historical Account In Arabic Literature

Dr. Hashimi A.O.                                                                                                                      Department of Religious Studies, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State, Nigeria

 

 

190)Straightening the Records: A Critique of Abdullahi Mahadi's Narrative on "The Introduction of Shi'ism into Nigeria"

Sanusi Aminu Hayatu                                                                                                                Department of Political Science, Bayero University, Kano

 

 

191)Syndrome E:  State, Religion and Social Conflict in Contemporary Nigeria

Daniel Ibrahim                                                                                                                               University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria

 

 

192)ECOWAS Protocol Of Free Movement, Boarder Porosity and the Emerging Threats To Internal Security In North Central Nigeria: An Appraisal Of The Influx Of Migrant Fulani Herders

Dare Leke Idowu

Damilola Taiye Agbalajobi                                                                                              Department of Political Science, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria

 

 

193)The Political Economy Of Labour Strikes In Nigeria's Second Republic, 1979-1983: A Historical Analysis

Bernard Steiner Ifekwe, Ph.D                                                                                                Department Of History/International Studies, University Of Uyo, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State

 

 

194)The Sociology of Security: An Explanation of Electoral Violence Network in Nigeria

Igwe, Dickson Ogbonnaya, M.Phil.                                                                                        Criminology and Security Studies Department,School of Arts and Social Sciences, National Open University of Nigeria, Lagos, Nigeria and;                                                               Ayokunle Olumuyiwa Omobowale, Ph.D.                                                                      Department of Sociology, Faculty of the Social Sciences, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria

 

 

195)Indirect Rule System in Aba Division

Ihuoma Chinonso                                                                                                                Department of History, University of Ibadan, Nigeria

 

 

196)The Military Factor in Development in Nigeria

Ihuoma Chinonso                                                                                                                 Department of History, University of Ibadan; and                                                                       Ekpo Mary Eta                                                                                                                     Department of Political Science Cross River State College of Education

 

 

197)Women of Substance: The Contributions of Dora Nkem Akunyili and Obiageli Ezekwesili to Nigeria's societal development.

Ihuoma Chinonso                                                                                                                Department of History, University of Ibadan, Nigeria

 

 

198)African Feminism and Women's Social Activism: (Re)constructing the African Narrative

Ilesanmi, Omotola Adeyoju                                                                                                     Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, Victoria Island, Lagos

 

 

199)Colonial Machinery of Criminal Justice in Ilesha, 1863-1915

Tolulope Ilesanmi                                                                                                                  Department of History and Strategic Studies, University of Lagos

 

 

200)Repositioning the Question of Intermarriage in West Africa within the Context of Atlantic Slave Trade

IloMoses I. Olatunde                                                                                                           Department of History, School of Arts & Social Sciences,Tai Solarin College of Education, Omu Ijebu, Ogun State, Nigeria

 

 

201)War Against Women In Africa: A Threat To Peace And Security

Preye Kuro Inokoba, Ph.D,                                                                                                     Department Of Political Science, Niger Delta University, Bayelsa State; and                          Abeki Sunny Okoro, Ph.D                                                                                                 International Institute Of Tourist And Hospitality, Yenagoa, Bayelsa State

 

 

202)Ethnicity, Citizenship Identity and Nation Building in Africa: The Nigeria Experience

Otinche Sunday Inyokwe, PhD                                                                                                Department of Public Administration, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University

 

 

203)"Hey Mr. Teacher my child must pass this examination at all cost!": On the Cheating Culture and Africa's Post-Colonial Education.

Irabor, Benson Peter                                                                                                              Department of Philosophy, University of Lagos, Lagos

 

 

204)Regional Cooperation for Development: The African Union Experience

Ebenezer Babajide                                                                                                                 Department of Political Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Lagos

 

 

205)Empowerment, Reintegration and Re-trafficking of Victims of Human Trafficking in Nigeria: Critical Issues and Opportunities

Rachael Oluseye Iyanda, PhD

Nigeria

 

 

206)Indigenous Knowledge Systems And Food Security In Hausaland: An Examination Of Food Preservation And Storage Practices

Umar Muhammad Jabbi (PhD)                                                                                                 History Department, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto

 

 

207)On The Search For National Identity In African Architecture

E. Babatunde Jaiyeoba PhD                                                                                                    Department of Architecture, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria

 

 

208)The Promise of Epistemic Contextualism in African Epistemology

Mikael Janvid                                                                                                                     Docent/Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University, Sweden

 

 

209)Ending White Supremacy in Education: Using the Funds of Knowledge (FKN) Strategy to De-Colonize Knowledge

Munjeera Jefford                                                                                                                         York University, Toronto Canada

 

 

210)Interpreting the Urhobo indigenous knowledge system in the light of Western Education

Jibromah, Oghenekevwe K. (Mrs.)                                                                                                                                Department Of Religious Studies,School Of Arts And Social Sciences, Adeyemi College of Education, Ondo

 

 

211)Knowledge Control and the Institutionalization of Patriarchy In Yorubaland Before the 14th Century

D.I. Jimoh                                                                                                                               Department of History and International Studies, Al Hikmah University, Ilorin, Kwara State

 

 

212)Recasting Historical Epistemology & Scientific Discourse in Africa
Sesan Michael Johnson                                                                                                             MPhil Degree (African History) Candidate, Department of History, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Nigeria

 

213)An Assessment of the Kannywood Movies in the Promotion of the Hausa Cultural Values

Dr. Maryam Ibrahim and Kabiru Danladi                                                                               Department of Mass Communication, Faculty of Social Sciences, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria-Nigeria

 

 

214)Corruption, the Bane of Good Governance: Nigeria's Snack

Falilat Adenike Kelani                                                                                                                    St. Theresa's Catholic Nursery and Primary School, Marine Beach, Apapa, Lagos, Nigeria

 

 

215)Traditional African Sculpture Style And Its Development: Problems And Prospects

Kevin Samuel Damden                                                                                                     Department of Fine Art, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria

 

 

216)The Palm Oil Baptises The Yam and The Hungry Rejoice: Food and Feasts in the African Novel.

Kayode Kofoworola                                                                                                                Department of English, University of Lagos Akoka, Yaba Lagos

 

 

217)Dominican Catholic Chapel Ibadan; Artist's hand in the Service of God

Kolade Ayeyemi                                                                                                               Department of Fine and Applied Arts, Federal College Of Education (Technical), Akoka, Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria

 

 

218)Political Institutions of Ancient Oyo Empire: Lessons for Contemporary Africa's Development

Oladipupo, Abiodun Kolapo,                                                                                                Department of Political Science,  Emmanuel Alayande College of Education Oyo, Oyo , State; and

Adeniran Enoch Oluwole                                                                                                                                  Department of History, Emmanuel Alayande College of Education Oyo, Oyo State

 

 

219)Secessionist Movements in Nigeria And The Right To External Self Determination Under International Law

Kolawole  Adeejat                                                                                                                          Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State, Nigeria

 

 

220)A Yoruba Postmodern Identity and an Ethico-Epistemological Critique of Cosmopolitanism

Leye Komolafe                                                                                                                 Department of Philosophy, University of Ibadan

 

 

221)Building Capacities For Border Administrators Along Nigeria's International Boundaries

Martin T. Kpoghul, PhD                                                                                                         Department of History, Benue State University, Makurdi

 

 

222)Consciousness of Spirituality in Visual Art Practice: A Personal Encounter

Lasisi Lamidi                                                                                                                         Department of Fine Art, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria

 

 

223)A History of infant mortality in Nigeria in an era of sustainable Development Agenda: The case study of Ibadan 1999-2017

Lawal Tomiloba                                                                                                                           (Post Graduate Student) Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State

 

 

224)Nigeria's Development In The 21st Century: The Third World Option

Murtala Marafa                                                                                                                          Department of History, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences,  Sokoto State University, Sokoto

 

 

225)The quest for Africanizing qualitative research: A pathway to methodological innovation

Evelyn N. E. B. Mayanja                                                                                                              Ph.D Candidate, in peace and conflict studies, University of Manitoba, Canada

 

 

226)African Youths and the Indigenous Approaches to Resolving Conflicts in Africa

Joan Ugo Mbagwu                                                                                                                     Caleb University, Ikorodu, Lagos State

 

 

227)Atlantic SlaveryAnd Its Impression On The Afrocentric Identity Since The 19th Century

Udo Emem Michael                                                                                                                 Department of History/International studies, University of Uyo,Uyo

 

 

228)Inertia Citizens in Africa: Taking Lessons From Confucianism And Ifa

Amuda Mosigbodi Bamidele

Nigeria

 

 

229)The UN Development Policies (MDGS/SDGs) on Women Empowerment: An African Critique

Halima Sa'adiyat Adamu Muhammed                                                                                       Department of Political Science and International Studies, Ahmadu Bello University Zaria

 

 

230)Women as Custodian Of Tradition And Family: Female Identity In Falola's A Mouth Sweeter Than Salt

Aisha Umar M.

Department Of European Languages, Federal University Birnin Kebbi

 

 

231)The Formation Of Communities In Nigeria: A Study Of Arawa Migration From Arewa Ga Adar( Baibaye in Niger Republic) To Arewa Local Government Of Kebbi State

Mustapha Idris Sarka

G.G.A.I.S.S. Kangiwa, Kebbi State

 

 

232)Slavery  Inkasar Kabi (Kabi Kingdom) From 1772  To Date

Mustapha Idris Sarka                                                                                                      G.G.A.I.S.S. Kangiwa, Kebbi State

 

 

233)Existence of Social equilibrium and its conditions

Immanuel Nashivela                                                                                                                   Namibia University of Science and Technology

 

 

234)Colonial African Historiography and Gender: Women in Science and Technology in Tarokland, 1900-1960

Rabi Nimlan and Clement Selbong                                                                                     Department of History and International Studies, University of Jos, Nigeria

 

 

235)Diaspora Remittances and Sustainable Development in Africa: Insight from Nigeria

Joseph Okwesili Nkwede,Ph.D,                                                                                        Department of Political Science, Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki

 

 

236)Efficiency and Development Theory in Local Government Financing in Nigeria: Empirical Evidence and Limitations of Theory

Gift Ntiwunka and Ayodele, Temitope Mary                                                                       Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Babcock University, Ilisan-Remo, Ogun State, Nigeria

 

 

237)The Changing Trend of Ethno-Medical Practice in Yoruba Nation

Nwachukwu Uzoamaka                                                                                                             History Department, University of Ibadan

 

 

238)Production of Knowledge and the Literary Tradition in Africa: Re-Reading Achebe and Ezeigbo

Languages Department, Federal Polytechnic, Oko, Anambra State, Nigeria

 

 

239)Art of Pottery: Medium For Culture Identification In Africa.

Obadofin Samuel Bamidele,                                                                                                  Department Of Fine Art, Faculty Of Environmental Design, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria; Akan, Nicholas Behatan                                                                                                       Department Of Fine And Applied Arts, Federal College Of Education Obudu-Cross River State Maxwell E. Roberts                                                                                                                  Federal Polytechnic Nasarawa, Nasarawa State

 

 

240)The Art Of Cloth Weaving A Medium For Culture Preservation In Nigeria

Umar Yusuf Olayinka                                                                                                         Department Of Visual And Creative Arts, Federal University Lafia, Nasarawa State Nigeria and Tisloh David Dung                                                                                                               Department Of Visual And Creative Arts, Federal University Lafia, Nasarawa State Nigeria

 

 

241)Politicization Of Intellectualism In Africa: The Nigerian Experience

Chidubem I. Obayi                                                                                                                  Department of History, University of Ibadan

 

 

242)Women Participation in Governance and Politics of the Eastern Niger Delta Area Of Nigeria

Odeigah, Theresa Nfam, Ph.D                                                                                          Department of History and International Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Ilorin

 

 

243)Pre-Colonial Diplomacy In Igbo Land: Reasons, Means And Benefits

Francis C. Odeke                                                                                                                          Department of History and International Relations, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki

 

 

244)Understanding Igede Indigenous Knowledge Systems and the Future of Igede Cultural Heritage in Benue State, Nigeria

Mike Odey, PhD                                                                                                                       Professor of Economic History & Former Chair, Department of History, Benue State University, Makurdi

 

 

245)Globalization: A Capitalist One Way Street

Jerry I. Odii                                                                                                                            Ibadan School of History, University of Ibadan

 

 

246)The influx of Igbo Migrants in Zaria, 1900-1965

Dr. V.S. Akran                                                                                                                   Department of History and War Studies, Nigerian Defence Academy, Kaduna and                Odoh Nathaniel John,                                                                                                       Department of History and Diplomatic Studies, Federal University, Kashere

 

 

247)Unfair Share: The Policies and Politics of Transformation Agenda on Education In Nigeria

Odujobi Kayode                                                                                                              Nigeria International School Cotonou, Republic of Benin

 

 

248)Deconstructionism as Illustrated in Ifá Divination

Ofuasia Emmanuel                                                                                                         Department of Philosophy,Olabisi Onabanjo University,Ago-Iwoye,Ogun State, Nigeria

 

 

249)The Modern Challenges Of Religion And Migration

Ogedegbe Bosede Gladys                                                                                            Department Of Religious Management & Cultural Studies,  Faculty Of Arts, Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma

 

 

250)Social Protection: A Policy and Approach to Sustainable Peace Building in Nigeria's Fragile and Conflict Affected Situation

 

 

251)The Nexus Between Ethnicity, Farmer-Herder Conflicts, And Nation Building In        Nigeria

Michael Ihuoma Ogu, PhD                                                                                         Department of Political Science and Public Administration,Babcock University, Ogun State

 

 

252)Traditional Communication: A Catalyst For Bridging Class Gap Between The Rich And The Poor In Africa

Oguche Israel                                                                                                                Department of Mass Communication, University of Nigeria, NsukkaAnd Amina Ahmad Aminu, Department of Mass Communication, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria

 

 

253)Religion and Technological Innovations: Revitalizing African Indigenous Religion through Movies

Ogunbiyi, Olatunde Oyewole PhD

Department of Religions, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria

 

 

254)Beyond Western Medicine: Indigenous knowledge systems in Ola Rotimi's The Gods are not to Blame and James Henshaw's This is Our Chance

'Leke Ogunfeyimi

Samuel Adegboyega University, Ogwa, Edo, Nigeria

 

 

255)The Said of Satan/Esu and the Unsaid of Elijah/Sango in Ajayi Crowther's     Translation of the Bible

'Leke Ogunfeyimi,

Samuel Adegboyega University, Ogwa, Edo, Nigeria

 

 

256)Conflicts Emergence in West Africa Within The Confines Of The Trans-Atlantic        Slave Trade

Ogunniyi, Olayemi Jacob,

Department of History, Faculty of Arts, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria              WilloughbyStella Ifeoma

Department of International Relations, Faculty of Social Sciences, The Ultimate University of Science & Management Technology,  Porto-Novo, Benin Republic and

Britto,Bonifacio Aderemi                                                                                              Department of History & International Studies, Faculty of Arts, Lagos State University, Ojo, Lagos, Nigeria

 

 

257)Trans Atlantic Slave Trade In West Africa: Implications For Labour Shortage

Ogunniyi, Olayemi Jacob

Department of History, Faculty of Arts, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria

 

 

258)African Womanism in Selected Plays of Tess Onwueme and Irene Salami

Oguntoyinbo Deji

Faith Academy, Canaanland, Ota, Ogun State

 

 

259)An Overview Of The Challenges Of Technology Integration In Art Pedagogy Within Africa

Ohambele James Chimezie

Department of Fine Art, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria

 

 

260)Assessing Indigenous Music Content in Colleges of Education Curriculum: Implications for Indigenous Musical Practices and National Identity in Nigeria

Ojelabi Cornelius Olufemi (PhD)                                                                              Department of Music, Emmanuel Alayande College of Education, Oyo

 

 

261)Traditional African Languages, Challenges and Prospects

Gabriel Kehinde Ojetayo, PhD                                                                                       Department of Religious Studies, Adeyemi College of Education, Ondo

 

 

262)The Role of African Women in Conflict Transformation and Peace-Building

Ojo Olusola Matthew, PhD                                                                                                Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution, Department of Political Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, National Open University of Nigeria, Abuja

 

 

263)Indigenous Knowledge Systems-Mediated Classroom: What Role can it play in Education?

Ojo, Christianah Oluyemi (Ph. D);                                                                                Akinrotimi, Adenike Adeola                                                                                           Department of Early Childhood Care and Education,                                                   Adeyemi College of Education, Ondo, Ondo State, Nigeria; and                                                            Famakinwa Adebayo                                                                                                         Institute of Education, Obafemi Awolowo University of Education, Ile-Ife, Osun State

 

264)Bureaucracy and Crisis of Development in Prismatic cum Post-Colonial African States

Ifeanyichukwu Michael Abada PhD                                                                                   Okafor Nneka Ifeoma PhD, and                                                                                                 Tr. Omeh Paul Hezekiah                                                                                                     Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Nigeria, Nsukka

 

 

265)An Ethical Enquiry into the Subject of Migration and Its Effect in the Development of the Rural Communities in Nigeria: Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu State as Case Study

Okafor Nneka Ifeoma PhD                                                                                    Ifeanyichukwu Michael Abada PhD; and                                                                                    Mr  Ifeanyi Agbowo                                                                                                          University of Nigeria, Nsukka

 

 

266)Funding For Women's Rights Advocacy and the Struggles for Affirmative Action in Nigeria

Okedele Adebusola Omotola                                                                                     Department of Political Science                                                                                             Tai Solarin College of Education, Omu-Ijebu, Ogun State, Nigeria

 

 

267)Torn Between Cultures: Igbo Indigenous Knowledge of Peace Building and Security Mechanisms in Post-Colonial Nigeria

Mbalisi, Chinedu N. PhD                                                                                                   Department of History and International Relations,  Paul University, Awka; and                    Okeke Chiemela Adaku,                                                                                                 Department of History and Strategic Studies                                                                      Federal University Ndufu Alike Ikwo, Ebonyi State

 

 

268)The Historiography of Knowledge Production in Africa

Stephen Okhonmina                                                                                                     Department of Political Science, University of Benin, Benin City, Nigeria

 

 

269)To Progress Or To Perish? Africa In The 21st Century Global System

Felix Okokhere (PhD)                                                                                                     Department of Political Science, Faculty of Social science, Ambrose Alli University Ekpoma, Edo State

 

 

270)The Role Of Information Technology In The Enhancement Of African Knowledge Production

Okoh Nora Augusta Ozemoya                                                                                             Department Of Computer Science, Faculty Of Physical Sciences, Ambrose Alli University Ekpoma,  Edo State, Nigeria                                                                                                        Felix Omoh Okokhere (PhD)                                                                                             Department of Political Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma Okoh Vincent Ehimhen,                                                                                                          Department Of Public Administration,                                                                                      Faculty Of Management Sciences , Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma

 

 

271)Ade Ajayi We Know, Toyin Falola We Know; Who are You? Reprojecting African Indigenous Thoughts and Philosophy

Okunade, Seun Adedokun                                                                                                Department of History, University of Ibadan

 

 

272)Tangible and Intangible Walls Between Idiroko And Igolo Neighbouring Towns

Oladesu J. O.

Sobowale T. O.

Department of Fine & Applied Arts,

Olabisi Onabanjo University Ago Iwoye, Ibogun Campus,Ogun State

 

 

273)Toyin Falola: The Mother Drum (Iya-ilu) of the Yoruba Dundun Ensemble

Oladipo Olufunmilola Temitayo

Department of Performing Arts, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye

 

 

274)The Dynamics of African Spirituality: A Study of Ijo Orunmila Adulawo

Mobolaji Olagbemi

Department of History and International Studies, Osun State University, Osogbo, Nigeria

 

 

275)The Post Colonial Educational system of the 6-3-3-4 in Nigeria: Challenges and Prospects

S. Joseph Bankola Ola-Koyi

Lecturer, Film Critic & Media Arts Consultant, Department of Performing Arts,

Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye

 

 

276)Taxation, Women and the Colonial State: Ijebu Women's Agitations

Olalere, Titilope Olusegun

McPherson University, Seriki-Sotayo, Ogun State, Nigeria

 

 

277)Towards an Endogenous Interpretation of Indigenous Yoruba Culture: A Critique of Lola Shoneyin's The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives

Akin Olaniyi, Ph.D

English Unit, Department of General Studies, The Polytechnic, Ibadan, Nigeria

 

 

278)Globalisation And America's Unipolarism: The Quandary Of Africa Security

Oliseh, Kadishi, Ndudi

Department of History, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria

 

 

279)Indigenous And Modern Day Child Raising Methods : A Nexus. A Critical Look Into The Yoruba Proverb ' Omo Ti A Ko Ko Lo Ngbe Ile Ti A Ko Ta'

Oloyede Elizabeth Moronkeji

Ojoko Bukola Anike; and

Samuel, Bukola Anike

Department of Early Childhood Education, Adeyemi College Of Education Ondo

 

 

280)Yoruba Traditional Instrumental Ensemble And Indigenous Knowledge Systems

Olupemi E. Oludare Ph.D.

Department of Creative Arts, University of Lagos

 

281)The African Traditional Religion And Forest Preservation With Reference To Osun Osogbo Sacred Grove In Osogbo Southwestern Nigeria

Oludare, Olusegun Olurotimi Theophilus (PhD)

Department of Christian Religious Studies,Federal College of Education, Abeokuta

 

 

282)Digitizing, Preserving, And Presenting Yoruba Stories Visual Presentation Proposal For The Toyin Falola @65 Conference

'Segun Olude

The University of Manitoba, Canada

 

 

283)Ethnic Conflicts and Nation-Building In Post-Colonial Africa: A Comparative Study Of Nigeria, Kenya And South Africa

Olugbodi Oladipupo Abiola

Department of History and Strategic Studies, University of Lagos

 

 

284)A History Of First Baptist Church Parafa: An Oral History Approach

Olugbodi Oladipupo Abiola

Department of History and Strategic Studies, University of Lagos

 

 

285)Resistance, Social Movements and the Failure of Development in Africa

Oluwatoyin O. Oluwaniyi

Department of History and International Studies

College of Humanities, Redeemer's University, Ede

Osun State, Nigeria

 

 

286)The Root Of Ethnicity, Politics Of Decolonisation And The Implications In The Nation-Building Process In Nigeria

Chukwuebuka Omeje

Department Of History, University Of Ibadan

 

 

287)African Governance and Leadership Challenges and Prospects for Alternative Future

Bolaji Omitola, PhD,

Department of Political Sciences, Osun State University, Nigeria

 

 

288)The Social-cultural Imperatives of Billboard Advertising in Southwest Nigeria

Feyisara Sunday Omolola

Department of Fine and Applied Arts

Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Nigeria

 

 

289)Older Persons: Welfarism And Diplomacy Within Indegenous African Society; Contextualization of Elechi Amadi's The Great Ponds And Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart

Omotayo, Olatubosun Tope (Ph.D)

Dept of Adult Education, Tai-Solarin University of Education,

Ijagun, Ijebu –Ode, Ogun –State

 

 

290)The Resilience Of Ondo Indigenous Adjudicatory Systems

Omotayo K. Charles

Department of History and International Studies, University of Ilorin

 

 

291)A Re-interpretation of Euro-centric Discourse of the Understanding of African Religion: A Case Study of Yoruba Religion

Professor Rotimi Williams Omotoye

Department of Religions, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria

 

292)Examination of The Woman's Resistance To Oppression In Selected Francophone Fictions

Dr. (Mrs) Temidayo Onojobi                                                                                        Department of Foreign Languages, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye

 

 

293)Exploring Indigenous Knowledge as Alternative Pathways to Nigeria's Economic Development

Anthony  C. Onwumah (Ph.D)                                                                                            Tayo O. George (Ph.D)                                                                                                         Idowu A. Chiazor (Ph.D)                                                                                                Covenant University, Ota, Ogun State, Nigeria

 

 

294)Trafficking in persons and Commodification of the Girl-child in West Africa

Orogun F. Olanike                                                                                                     Department of Political Science, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago- Iwoye, Ogun State

 

 

295)Engaging the Dragon without Blindfolds: Reflections on the African University and the Ecologies of China in Africa

Abdul-Gafar Tobi Oshodi                                                                                                Department of Political Science, Lagos State University

 

 

296)Intercultural Philosophy: An Ibuanyindandaist Critique

Nyok, Efio-Ita Effiom

Postgraduate Student, Department Of Philosophy,University Of Calabar, Calabar

Osuala, Amaobi Nelson

Postgraduate Student, Department Of Philosophy, University Of Ibadan, Oyo State

 

 

297)Social Movements In Africa: Pre-Independence Equatorial Guinea

P.F. Owojuyigbe

Department of History, Adeyemi College of Education Ondo, Ondo State, Nigeria

 

 

298)Indigenous Strategies and Settings for Inculcating Peace Values in Yoruba Culture: From the Past to the Present

Musibau Olabamiji Oyebode, Ph.D

Department Of Political Science, Faculty Of Social Sciences, National Open University Of Nigeria, Abuja

 

 

299)European Hegemony and the Nigeria National Language Question: Issues and Considerations

Oyedeji Gideon Abioye                                                                                                               School Of Post Graduate Studies, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University, Lapai, Niger State

 

 

300)The Question Of Citizenship And Indigeneity In Nigeria: A Critical Perspective

Babatunde O. Oyekanmi

Department of Political Science, University of Ibadan

 

 

301)A Historical Perspective Of Christian Missions In South –Western Nigeria (1483 – 1895)

Samson Kolawole Oyeku (Ph.D.)                                                                                        U.M.C.A. Theological College, Ilorin, Kwara State

 

 

302)The Language Game and the Inequality of Gender: Interrogating Feminist Postproverbials

Olayinka Oyeleye                                                                                                                  Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, University of Ibadan, Nigeria

 

 

303)An Appraisal of African Epistemology

Gabriel Oyevesho Akinlade-Daniel                                                                                            Independent Scholar

 

 

304)Perception of Tertiary institution Students' Towards the Hidden Health Dangers of Mobile Devices and Internet Usage: Focus on Lagos State Tertiary Institutions, Nigeria

Dr. Oyeyemi, Sunday .O.                                                                                                          School of Education, Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education, Lagos State, Nigeria

 

 

305)The tax riots of 1969 in Southern Western Nigeria

Bamidélé Aly                                                                                                                              MPhil (Research) student in Economic History at Panthéon-Sorbonne University (Paris 1)

 

 

306)Deconstructing Imperialistic Knowledge about African Scholarship: A Triangulative Analysis of Reverence Paid Sociologists of Africa versus African Sociologists
Fatai A. Badru, Ph.D.                                                                                                                 Department of Sociology, University of Lagos, Nigeria

 

307)State Bureaucracies and Development in Africa: Interrogating the Link

Maryam Omolara Quadri Ph.D                                                                                            Department of Political Science, University of Lagos

 

 

308)Rethinking Ikare Traditions of Origin

Afeez Tọ́pẹ́, RAJI (Graduate Student), Department of History and International Studies Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko, Ondo State Nigeria

 

 

309)Islam and the People of Eti-Osa in Lagos State up to 2014: A General Historical Survey
Razaq Ishola Haruna                                                                                                                  NCE, B. A. (LASU), M. A. (Ibadan) Islamic Studies

 

 

310)Soft Power: Nigeria's Emerging Strategy in Africa's Geopolitics

Olusola Ogunnubi                                                                                                                      Postdoctoral Fellow, Faculty of Management Sciences,                                                                 Mangosuthu University of Technology, Umlazi, Durban, South Africa

 

 

311)Imperatives For Christian Religious Education In Curbing Political Crisis In Nigeria

Odudele Rotimi                                                                                                                            Senior Lecturer of Sociology of Religion, Department of Christian Religious Studies,         College of Education, Ikere Ekiti, Ekiti State, Nigeria

 

 

312)Comparative Ethics in Multi-Cultural Society: The Nigeria Experience.

Lazarus Baribiae Saale, PhD                                                                                                Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Niger Delta University, Yenegoa, Bayelsa State

 

 

313)Cassava and the Atlantic Slave Trade: A Critical Reflection

Saibu Israel Abayomi                                                                                                               Anchor University, Ayobo, Ipaja, Lagos

 

 

314)Indigenous Technology as A Catalyst for National Development

Salami A T

Nigeria

 

 

315)Wisdom-Imbecility Paradoxical Value: Theorising Contemporary Political Communication Styles in Northern Nigeria

Sama'ila Shehu, PhD
Department of Political Science and International Studies,
Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria

 

 

316)President Muhammad Buhari's Whistle-blowing 2015 - Policy: The Moral Implication

Taiwo Olusegun Stephen
Department of Philosophy, Adekunle Ajasin University,                                                      Akungba-Akoko, Ondo, Nigeria

 

 

317)"Gbójú Nbè̩͎!":Urban Slang As Sociolinguistic Expression In Selected Nollywood Films

Dr. Mojisola Shodipe                                                                                                                  Senior Lecturer, Department of English, University of Lagos

 

 

318)Rethinking Neo-Liberal Agenda: The Sokoto Caliphate Political Thought As An Alternative

Mohammed Shuaibu                                                                                                           Department of Political Science and International Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria

 

 

319)Contemporary Yoruba Heroes In Public Sculpture

Tolulope O. Sobowale                                                                                                             Department of Fine and Applied Arts, College of Engineering and Environmental Studies, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Ibogun Campus, Ogun State

KehindeAdepegba                                                                                                                        School of Environmental Studies, Department of Art and Industrial Design, Lagos State Polytechnic, Ikorodu

Johnson O. Oladesu                                                                                                                    Department of Fine and Applied Arts, College of Engineering and Environmental Studies, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Ibogun Campus, Ogun State

 

 

320)"Africans" into Anglo-Saxons: Granville Sharp and Legal Ordering                                                                         in Early Sierra Leone, 1787 - 1789

Tim Soriano                                                                                                                                    The University of Chicago at Illinois

 

 

321)Gender Discourse, Gender Narrative and Gender Literature: a Continuation of Euro-American Knowledge Production in Africa.

Hashim Muhammad Suleiman                                                                                                       Department of Mass Communication, Faculty of Social Sciences, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria

 

 

322)Hegemony and Dominance in and between African Social Space: The Arbitrary and artificial dichotomy between rurality and urbanity.

Terwase T. Dzeka                                                                                                                              History Department, Benue State University, Makurdi

 

 

323)The Use of Public Diplomacy by Non-State Actors in Africa

Dr. Olubukola Adesina                                                                                                             Department of Political Science, University of Ibadan, Nigeria

 

 

324)'Internationally Endeared, Locally Ensnared': The Glory And Gory Days Of The Adire-Kampala Of Abeokuta, South Western Nigeria

Thompson, O.O, Nwaorgu, O.G.F, Onifade, C.A and Aduradola, R.R.                                            Department of Communication and General Studies, Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta

 

 

325)Saving the Child's (Post-)Colonial Future: Save the Children Fund and the establishment of Nairobi's Starehe School, 1952-1969

Ray Thornton                                                                                                                                The History Department at Princeton University

 

326)Transformations: The Life of the Modern Ijaw Warrior in the Niger Delta

Dr Rebecca Golden Timsar
The University of Houston, USA

 

 

327)Pan-Africanism and Regionalism in Africa: The Journey So Far

Ernest Toochi Aniche, PhD                                                                                                    Department of Political Science, Federal University Otuoke (FUO), Bayelsa State, Nigeria

 

 

328)History, The Political Elite And The Struggle For Nigerian Unity, 1960 - 2010

Udida A. Undiyaundeye, Ph.D                                                                                              Department Of History And International Studies                                                                       University Of Uyo, Uyo

 

 

329)Interrogating Pan-Africanism and African Citizenship through the African Endogenous Theory of the State

Lawrence Ogbo Ugwuanyi, Ph.D

Professor of African Philosophy and Thought                                                                       Department of Philosophy and Religions                                                                                  University of Abuja, Abuja-Nigeria

 

 

330)Nnamdi Azikiwe and Obafemi Awolowo as Conditioners of Igbo-Yoruba Relations since the Twentieth Century

Alex Amaechi Ugwuja, PhD                                                                                                 Department of History and International Relations,                                                             Paul University, Awka

 

 

331)Marginalization and Social Dislocation in the Sokoto Caliphate and Dual Knowledge Production in Northern Nigeria

Umaru Tanko Abdullahi                                                                                                             Department of Political Science and International Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria

 

 

332)Benin Warlords, Warriors and Mercenaries in The 19th C Wars in Yorubaland: A Neglected Aspect Of Yoruba History.

Uyilawa Usuanlele,                                                                                                             Dept. of History, State University of New York, Oswego

 

 

333)An Age of Africanist Renaissance: The Transformation of the Historical Discipline in Nigeria, since 1956

Osayande Uyi Emmanuel                                                                                                     Department of History and Strategic Studies,                                                                                University of Lagos, Nigeria

 

 

334)Globalization and African Migration: A Case Study of African Immigration in Libya 1959-2017

William, Mary Aniefiok                                                                                                      Department of History, University of Ibadan

 

 

335)The Politics of Labels: Imperial Categorizations and Indigenous African Medicine

Ogechukwu Ezekwem Williams                                                                                                   Assistant Professor, Department of History, Creighton University

 

 

336)Intellectuals, Universities and Democratization in Nigeria

Antonia Taiye Simbine, PhD                                                                                                     National Commissioner, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Abuja &       Dhikru Adewale Yagboyaju, PhD                                                                                            Department of Political Science, University of Ibadan, Nigeria

 

 

337)British Colonial Administration and the Development Of Western Education In Ilorin Emirate, 1900 – 1960

Dr. Yahaya Eliasu                                                                                                                       Department Of History And Heritage Studies,                                                                                Kwara State University, Malete, Nigeria

 

 

338)Asuwada Principle And The Concept Of Omoluabi In Yoruba Ethico-Metaphysical Thought

Yunusa Kehinde Salami, PhD                                                                                                     Professor Of Philosophy, Department Of Philosophy, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile--Ife, Nigeria

 

 

339)From 'Panla' to 'Oku Eko': A Historical Perspective on the Changes in the Urban Food Culture in Lagos State, South-western Nigeria, 1960 – 1990s

Yussuf, N. Babatunde,                                                                                                            Department of History & Diplomatic Studies, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye

 

 

340)Oko Idogo: The Railway And The Economic Transformation Of Parts Of Egba And Egbado Area, South-Western Nigeria, 1930 – 2010

Yussuf, N. Babatunde, C/O Prof. O.O. Olubomehin                                                                 Department of History & Diplomatic Studies, Faculty of Arts,                                                      Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye

 

 

341)Oko Idogo: The Railway And The Economic Transformation Of Parts Of Egba And Egbado Area, South-Western Nigeria, 1930 – 2010

Yussuf, N. Babatunde, C/O Prof. O.O. Olubomehin                                                                   Department of History & Diplomatic Studies, Faculty of Arts, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye

 

 

342)Imperial Citizens Or Economic Nationalists?: Analysis Of A Colonially Restructured Northern Nigeria Economy In The 1940s

Stephen Yohanna                                                                                                                   Department of History, Faculty of Arts, Kaduna State University, Kaduna, Nigeria

Cyril Yohanna Tanimu                                                                                                          Department of History, Kaduna State College of Education, Gidan Waya – Kafanchan, Kaduna State

 

 

343)Vessels Unto Honour: African Potters And The Making Of A New Identity

Stephen Yohanna                                                                                                                   Department of History, Faculty of Arts, Kaduna State University, Kaduna, Nigeria

Gimba Evelyn Selbyen                                                                                                                 Department of History and War Studies, Nigerian Defence Academy, Kaduna State – Nigeria

 

344)                   Dimensions of Peace, Conflict and Security

Caleb University (Co-Host Sponsored Panel)

 

 

345)                   African Youths and the Indigenous Approaches to Resolving Conflicts in Africa

Dr. Joan Ugo Mbagwu,

Caleb University, Ikorodu, Lagos, Nigeria

 

 

346)                   Beyond Military Force As Strategy for Countering Terrorism in Nigeria: A Handbook

Dr. Joan Ugo Mbagwu

Caleb University, Ikorodu, Lagos, Nigeria

 

 

347)                   Managing Religious Propagation and Intolerance Among Students of University of Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria

Dr. Kayode George

Caleb University, Ikorodu, Lagos

 

 

348)                   From Forced Migration to Forced Return: Policy and Humanitarian Implications in Nigeria

Mrs. Oluchi Enapeh

Caleb University, Ikorodu, Lagos, Nigeria

 

 




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"........but to reach the level of standardization, disciplinary coherence,  epistemic rigour   and distillation of global knowledge often within institutional contexts, represented by Western education is no small achievement." Adepoju 



You are truly mesmerized by the  West. I hope that  systematic euro - propaganda has not taken its toll. 


 I wonder why you assume that some of the features listed above are exclusively western.

We had a similar discussion  a few months ago in terms of the origins of the book. I pointed out then that the

printed book as we know it  has strong roots in Nubian-Egyptian, Chinese and Tibetan history, citing Nile Papyrus scrolls,

Buddhist monks and Chinese printing technology -  long before Gotenberg and others.


I can give you examples of standardization, epistemic rigor and disciplinary coherence that pre-date the West. Do not assume that  Knowledge around the globe had no intellectual rigor, logic and standards of its own.


 There were also additional  criteria,  depending on the culture and context,  that would be quite difficult for today's "westerner." For example memory and memorization counted for much in some cultures.  Many of today's researchers would flunk that test. Incidentally,  contemporary science indicates that memorization actually develops the brain.  The prioritization of some criteria and variables,  over others, also took place.


One of the major examples of the distillation of global knowledge actually dates to an era of Islamic  dominance, when knowledge of a certain kind was transmitted through the Silk Road and an interlocking commercial route, aided by Mongol military and political dominance  -  to give one example. Civilizations and cultures before the rise of western dominance also contributed to global knowledge.


Your argument covertly/indirectly  implies that before or without the West, there was not much worthwhile. Turn this around.


I don't know if you are trying to belittle or trivialize the contributions of Ake and Falola in your reference. In any case,  their intellectual profile and epistemological constructs are not identical. In some ways, though not all,  they are actually anti-western -  navigating through the perilous system, channels and  tunnels to get to the other side of the lion's den.They  defied  Western expectations. Like the anti - colonial activists of the 40s, 50s and 60s they used certain  existing paraphernalia to achieve their goals to suit the occasion and context of their situation.


 Falola is a master of knowledge production and an institutional builder and scholar.

Ake was cut down in his prime during/by the Babangida regime leaving us a distinct methodology in his works, all the same.





USA Africa Dialogue Series - With crass epithet, Trump reportedly dismisses African, Latino immigration -Boston Globe

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With crass epithet, Trump reportedly dismisses African, Latino immigration



WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 11: U.S. President Donald Trump leads a prison reform roundtable in the Roosevelt Room at the White House, on January 11, 2018 in Washington, DC. State and local leaders joined Trump to discuss programs intended to help prisoners re-enter the workforce among other policy initiatives. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump grew frustrated with lawmakers Thursday in the Oval Office when they floated restoring protections for immigrants from Haiti, El Salvador and African countries as part of a bipartisan immigration deal, according to two people briefed on the meeting.

''Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?'' Trump said, according to these people, referring to African countries and Haiti. He then suggested that the United States should instead bring more people from countries like Norway, whose prime minister he met yesterday.

The comments left lawmakers taken aback, according to people familiar with their reactions. Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Richard Durbin, D-Ill., proposed cutting the visa lottery program by 50 percent and then prioritizing countries already in the system, a White House official said.

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A White House spokesman declined to offer an immediate comment on Trump's remarks to The Washington Post. However, the Associated Press reported that a spokesman reached by AP reporters did not deny that Trump made the profane remark.

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Spokesman Raj Shah told the AP in a statement that while ''certain Washington politicians choose to fight for foreign countries,'' Trump ''will always fight for the American people.''

He also told the AP that Trump wants to welcome immigrants who ''contribute to our society, grow our economy and assimilate into our great nation,'' and will always reject ''temporary, weak and dangerous stopgap measures'' that he says ''threaten the lives of hardworking Americans'' and undercut other immigrants.

Outlining a potential bipartisan deal, the lawmakers discussed restoring protections for countries that have been removed from the temporary protected status program while adding $1.5 billion for a border wall and making changes to the visa lottery system.

The administration announced earlier this week that it was removing the protection for El Salvador.

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Trump had seemed amenable to a deal earlier in the day during phone calls, aides said, but shifted his position in the meeting and did not seem interested.

Graham and Durbin thought they would be meeting with Trump alone and were surprised to find immigration hard-liners such as Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., at the meeting. The meeting was impromptu and came after phone calls this morning, Capitol Hill aides said.

After the meeting, Marc Short, Trump's legislative aide, said the White House was nowhere near a bipartisan deal on immigration.

''We still think we can get there,'' White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said at the White House press briefing.

Material from the Associated Press was used in this report.


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Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - REVISITING PROFESSOR CHRIS IMAFIDON'S CLAIM TO OXFORD PROFESSORSHIP

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I frame my response by addressing Gloria's interpretation of my characterization of the achievements of Toyin  Falola and Claude Ake.

Toyin  Falola and Claude Ake, like all of us with academic degrees, are people  whose disciplinary foundations and achievements as they currently are would not exist without the Western academy and its epistemic and metaphysical foundations.

Falola and Ake are not anti-Western. They are critics of particular inadequacies of the Western academy as well as of negative aspects of the Western socio-economic system. That is not the same as being anti-Western.

They carry out this criticism within the context of the Western academy, its epistemic  strategies, metaphysical assumptions and institutional organization.

Practically all their education and career has been carried out in these contexts. Right now, Falola is a professor in a Western university which rewards him richly for his indefatigable efforts. Ake had his PhD in the US, and at the time he passed away, he had been a lecturer at the University of Port Harcourt, an institution built and run on the Western model, had set up a research institution,Center for Advanced Social Science,  on the model of the Western academies that decisively shaped him and was presenting initiatives about wireless information transmission akin to today's Internet that seemed futuristic to a person like myself in Nigeria at the time, that technology being a technology developed in the West.

"Falola is certainly "a master of knowledge production and an institutional builder and scholar", within the framework of the Western academy. Ake left  "a distinct methodology in his works", within the framework of the Western academy.


To what degree is the following characterization by Gloria true of Falola and Ake:


"navigating through the perilous system, channels and  tunnels to get to the other side of the lion's den.They  defied  Western expectations. Like the anti - colonial activists of the 40s, 50s and 60s they used certain  existing paraphernalia to achieve their goals to suit the occasion and context of their situation".


Even if Falola began his career in the days of 'there is no African history or historiography' of the Hugh-Trevor Roper days,  which I don't think he did, that ground already having been broken by his predecessors in the Ibadan History School, he thrived from the very beginning of his career in the Western academy represented by his PhD and subsequent lecturing at Nigeria's OAU, where he published at least two books a year from the award of the PhD. From my understanding of his career, he has never lacked recognition for his achievements. Same with Claude Ake. Part of the beauty of the Western system is its dynamism, even if slow in race centred issues. But perhaps Gloria has facts about the scholars in question to which I dont have access.


Falola could have chosen a career as a babalawo, an adept in the esoteric knowledge of Ifa, a central classical Yoruba educational system but he did not. Even Wande Abimbola, a key figure in academic Ifa studies, is at times described as a babalawo, but his eminence  is due to the work he did as a student and scholar at the University of Lagos, another Western style institution, using the critical tools developed by the Western academy in analyzing Yoruba discourse represented by Ifa.

Rowland Abiodun, a key figure in the study of Yoruba discourse, builds his oeuvre, as represented by his magnificent Yoruba Art and Language:Seeking the African in African Art  on the exploration of key concepts in Yoruba thought, but the critical power of his exposition and the citadel of scholarship he invokes to situate his elaborations demonstrate his intense training and sustained engagement with the critical  rigour and referential breadth of scholarship as developed in the Western tradition as well as his intimate, first hand relationship with classical Yoruba thought and its expositors.

Would an education purely in Ifa have empowered these scholars in this manner?

I doubt it. The epistemic strategies, metaphysical framework  and the ultimate outcomes of an exclusively Ifa education are different from the outcomes represented by the skill and knowledge demonstrated by these scholars.

I would go so far as to state that traditional Ifa education most likely has not reached the level of development of a mainstream-Catholic and Protestant Christian theological education. Some Ifa practitioners/scholars are working very hard at reaching this goal, such as Awo Falokun Fatunmbi, as evident from his labours and stated objectives on Facebook, which he has made his central platform, but he does this with a recognition of the scope of the task ahead and with a stated acknowledgement of his inspiration by the great German-American Christian theologian Paul Tillich, a figure whose inspiration is also central to the work of the Nigerian born Pentecostal theologian and philosopher Nimi Wariboko whom Falola fulsomely  introduced to this group late last year.

Another such aspirant in Ifa education might be Jacob Olupona, professor of religion at Harvard, as suggested by the orientation of the PhD thesis Sufism and Ifa: Ways of Knowing in Two West African Intellectual Traditions, of his supervisee Oludanini Ogunaike.

Ake is from Nigeria's Rivers state. I believe I am correct in stating that a central classical educational system from that region is the Ekpe system developed and run by the Ekpe esoteric order. The system is very rich and provides the foundations of the wonderful art of Victor Ekpuk. At the same time, however, the system is hampered, in my view, by challenges involved with monetizing its knowledge, a conclusion I reached from reading Jordan Febton's PhD on Ekpe,  Take it to the Streets : Performing Ekpe/Mgbe Power in Contemporary Calabar. The fear of sharing their esoteric knowledge, for among other reasons, so as not to disseminate what should be paid for handicaps the universalisation of this knowledge. The Western academy and others applying a similar strategy have  worked out how to address this question and right now have expanded access to their resources at a higher level than has ever been available in history, knowledge being more accessible than ever through technology and epistemic liberalization.

For an exclusive classical Ifa and Ekpe education to enable a Falola or an Ake, it will have to take on board the essence of the scholarly systems that shaped these thinkers, reinterpreting these systems in relation to the traditional contexts, expanding those contexts where necessary, building something that integrates the rigorous critical and massive bibliophilic culture that enables the kind of scholarship of a Falola or an Ake while striving to cultivate the cognitive faculties and metaphysical and epistemic  orientations vital to those significantly  spiritual African systems without compromising  the critical and universalist vision of the Western academy at its best which such scholarship as that of Falola and Ake is grounded on.

The struggle to achieve a similar goal in Western theology began with the Fathers of the early church, such as the 5th century African thinker St. Augustine of Hippo, these pioneers  successfully integrating Classical thought and Christian culture, with that struggle reaching a definitive stage by the Middle Ages with the work of such scholars as Thomas Aquinas and his decisive engagement with Aristotle, among other classical thinkers.

Without such a synthesis, Christian theological education would not go far beyond the Bible but at its best it currently includes broad ranging study in philosophy and various disciplines, as evident in the work of Christian theologians. Wariboko, for example, engages with classical African thought, Continental philosophy, literature and various social sciences, from economics to urban planning, in conducting his reflections.

When we are able to develop classical Africa educational systems to operate from such a disciplinary breadth and critical orientation, though building on a base in the  epistemic and metaphysical orientations  derived from the original foundations of the  African educational systems, then we would have arrived at the level of epistemic rigour and flexibility reached by contemporary Western education at its best.

The Western academy is the most developed in today's world, the most inclusive, the most productive, the most readily adaptable to various cultural contexts. Other great educational systems have been developed before it. In terms of the integration of the best from various systems, however, my view is that the Western system would be difficult to beat.

The best we can do is improve on it, and possibly adapt it, in alliance with other systems. It is the distillation of humanity's progression across the centuries. Its born from our common heritage. We should take it further rather than see it as alien.

At the same time, I am convinced the system is fundamentally inadequate in not making the question of the ultimate orientation of the human being in the journey between birth and death a primary goal of inquiry. Religious systems do this, but they are not as flexible and inclusive as the current Western educational model.

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On 12 January 2018 at 00:15, Emeagwali, Gloria (History) <emeagwali@ccsu.edu> wrote:

"........but to reach the level of standardization, disciplinary coherence,  epistemic rigour   and distillation of global knowledge often within institutional contexts, represented by Western education is no small achievement." Adepoju 



You are truly mesmerized by the  West. I hope that  systematic euro - propaganda has not taken its toll. 


 I wonder why you assume that some of the features listed above are exclusively western.

We had a similar discussion  a few months ago in terms of the origins of the book. I pointed out then that the

printed book as we know it  has strong roots in Nubian-Egyptian, Chinese and Tibetan history, citing Nile Papyrus scrolls,

Buddhist monks and Chinese printing technology -  long before Gotenberg and others.


I can give you examples of standardization, epistemic rigor and disciplinary coherence that pre-date the West. Do not assume that  Knowledge around the globe had no intellectual rigor, logic and standards of its own.


 There were also additional  criteria,  depending on the culture and context,  that would be quite difficult for today's "westerner." For example memory and memorization counted for much in some cultures.  Many of today's researchers would flunk that test. Incidentally,  contemporary science indicates that memorization actually develops the brain.  The prioritization of some criteria and variables,  over others, also took place.


One of the major examples of the distillation of global knowledge actually dates to an era of Islamic  dominance, when knowledge of a certain kind was transmitted through the Silk Road and an interlocking commercial route, aided by Mongol military and political dominance  -  to give one example. Civilizations and cultures before the rise of western dominance also contributed to global knowledge.


Your argument covertly/indirectly  implies that before or without the West, there was not much worthwhile. Turn this around.


I don't know if you are trying to belittle or trivialize the contributions of Ake and Falola in your reference. In any case,  their intellectual profile and epistemological constructs are not identical. In some ways, though not all,  they are actually anti-western -  navigating through the perilous system, channels and  tunnels to get to the other side of the lion's den.They  defied  Western expectations. Like the anti - colonial activists of the 40s, 50s and 60s they used certain  existing paraphernalia to achieve their goals to suit the occasion and context of their situation.


 Falola is a master of knowledge production and an institutional builder and scholar.

Ake was cut down in his prime during/by the Babangida regime leaving us a distinct methodology in his works, all the same.





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Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Countdown to TF@65 Conference, Update 2: List of Abstracts

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On Jan 11, 2018 11:55 PM, "Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso" <jumoyin@gmail.com> wrote:

LIST OF ABSTRACTS ACCEPTED

FOR THE TOYIN FALOLA @ 65 CONFERENCE:

AFRICAN KNOWLEDGES AND ALTERNATIVE FUTURES

29-31 January 2018

The University of Ibadan, Nigeria

1)      Rhizomatic and Arboreal Intelligence: In Search of Toyin Falola

Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju

Compcros, Comparative Cognitive Processes and Systems, Nigeria

 

 

2)      'Ibadanpolis': Visualizing and Rethinking the Metropolis on the Hill

Aderonke Adesola Adesanya

School of Art, Design and Art History, James Madison University, USA

 

 

3)      Joseph Odùmósù's Ìwé Ìwòsàn or Book of Healing: Its Content, Context, and Afterlives

Michael Oladejo Afoláyan, PhD, and Helen Tilley, PhD

Northwestern University, USA

 

 

4)      African Women in Politics: Past, Present and the Future

Damilola T. Agbalajobi

Department of Political Science, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria

 

 

5)      Back to the Future: Rethinking African Knowledge and External Intervention in African Conflicts

Prof. Isaac Olawale Albert

Director, Institute for Peace and Strategic Studies, University of Ibadan, Nigeria

 

 

6)      The Role of Intellectuals and African Future: Exploration into the Contributions of Prof. Toyin Falola in Historical Scholarship

Mukhtar Umar Bunza

Professor of Social History, Department of History, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, Nigeria

 

 

7)      Lessons from Toyin Falola's Ways of Thinking

Bola Dauda

Independent

 

 

8)      Questioning the Modern Nation-State in Africa: Nigerian Restructuring Debates in Perspective

Sati U. Fwatshak

University of Jos, Nigeria

 

 

9)      Power, Politics, and Pilgrimage: The Hajj and Colonial Ideology in Nigeria, 1903-1927

Matthew Heaton

Virginia Tech, USA

 

 

10)  Liberated Africans from the Bight of Benin Hinterland

Henry B. Lovejoy

The University of California, Los Angeles, USA

 

 

11)  Falola and the Future of the Humanities in Africa

Olabode Ibironke

Rutgers University, USA

 

 

12)  Transnational Religious Movement and Knowledge Production in Africa and the African Diaspora: A Critical Appraisal

Samson O. Ijaola

Samuel Adegboyega University, Ogwa, Edo State, Nigeria

 

 

13)  Falolaist Cultural Brokerage and the Pan-African Agenda

Malami Buba

Sokoto State University, Nigeria & Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (HUFS), Korea

 

 

14)  Securitised Nationalism and Borders: Towards a Decolonisation of Borders in the SADC?

Dr Inocent Moyo

Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, The University of Zululand, South Africa

 

 

15)  Mediatizing and Gendering Pan-Africanism for 'Glocal' Impacts

Dr. Omotoso, Sharon Adetutu

Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan, Nigeria

 

 

16)  Pan-African Doctoral Schools and Knowledge Production in Africa: Experiences, Issues, and Testimonials of Participants

Dr Blessing Nonye Onyima

Sociology/Anthropology, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Nigeria

 

 

17)  African Evangelicals in the Diaspora and Transformations in American Religious Space

Professor Adebayo Oyebade

Tennessee State University, USA

 

 

18)  Metahistory: Toyin Falola and the Work of Yoruba Intellectualism

Bukola Adeyemi Oyeniyi

Missouri State University, USA

 

 

19)  Writing African Women from the Margins: Feminist Epistemologies, Women and knowledge production in Africa

Prof. Bridget A. Teboh
Department of History,University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth
 
 
20)  Removing The Debris

Segun Ogungbemi                                                                                                                         Nigeria

 

21)  The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth: Insights and Lessons for Contemporary Nigerian Society

Samuel Zalanga                                                                                                        Professor of Sociology, Department of Anthropology,                                          Sociology and Reconciliation Studies, Bethel University, Saint Paul, MN, USA

 

22)  The African Past in the Future: Resource or Relic?

Alinah Segobye

 

 

23)  Nigeria since 2014: Restructuring or Dismemberment?

Egodi Uchendu (PhD) and Emmanuel T. Eyeh (PhD)

History & International Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka

 

 

24)  Narrative—Convergence and Dispersion in the Writings of Falola

Michael Vickers

Emeritus Director of Parliamentary and Public Affairs,

The Hillfield Agency (UK)

 

 

25)  Strategic Reflections on Africa's Developmental Dilemma, Lead City University (Co-Host Sponsored Panel)

 

 

26)  Pan-Africanism in the Age of Globalization

Tunde Oseni, PhD

Department of Politics & International Relations, Lead City University, Ibadan, Nigeria

 

 

27)  Co-operative Societies and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): A Viable Model in Human Development of Nigeria

Akanji, Ajibola Anthony

Department of Politics and International Relations, Lead City University, Ibadan

 

 

28)  Technology Acquisition and National Development in Nigeria

Chukwuebuka Akuche

Department of Politics and International Relations, Lead City University, Ibadan, Nigeria

 

 

29)  Nigeria and the Problem of Corruption: Exploring the Innovation of Reputational Sanctions

Olu Ojedokun

Department of Politics & International Relations,

Lead City University, Ibadan &

Jamila Bisi Aduke Suleiman

Centre for Peace and Security Studies, Modibbo Adama University of Technology, Yola, Adamawa State, Nigeria

 

30)  Managing The Quest For Good Governance In Nigeria Post-1999; A Patent Illusion?                                                                                               Babatunde Oyedeji                                                                                                   Department of Politics and International Relations, Lead City University, Ibadan

 

31)  Between Capital Social Infrastructure and Recurrent Stomach Infrastructure: A Practical Philosophical Contribution to the Poverty Policy and Discourse in Nigeria

Dr. Badru, Ronald Olufemi                                                                                         Lecturer-in-Philosophy and Politics, Department of Politics & International Relations,          Lead City University, Ibadan, Nigeria &Senior Research Fellow, Institut Francais de Recherche en Afrique, IFRA-Nigeria

 

32)  D.A. Obasa and Indigenous Knowledge Production in Colonial Nigeria

The University of Florida (Co-Host Sponsored Panel)

 

33)  Multiplicity of Identities of D.A. Ọbasá                                                                   Taiwo,  Adekemi Agnes                                                                                           Department of Linguistics & Nigerian Languages, Ekiti State University, Nigeria

 

34)  Poetic Utterance and Socio-Political Commitment in Ọbasa's Poems                    Lérè Adéyẹmí                                                                                                     Department of Linguistics and Nigerian Languages, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria

 

 

35)  A Critical Appraisal of Ethics of Inter-Personal Relations in Ọbasá's Poetry Ayọ̀délé Solomon Oyewale                                                                                  Department of Linguistics, African & Asian Studies, University of Lagos, Àkọkà, Lagos, Nigeria

 

36)  Didacticism and Philosophical Tenets in Obasa's Poetry                                     Arinpe G Adejumo                                                                                               Department of Linguistics and African Languages, University of Ibadan

 

 

37)  The Form and Content of Ọbasá's Weekly Newspaper: Yorùbá News              Clement Adeniyi Akangbe                                                                                         Department of Library, Archival and Information Studies, University of Ibadan, Nigeria

 

38)  A Critical Assessment of Editorial Opinions in Yoruba News                                     Taiwo Olunlade                                                                                                   Department of African Languages Literatures and Communication Arts, Lagos State University

 

 

39)  Yoruba News as Political Tool and Avenue for Cultural Revival
Abidemi Bolarinwa                                                                                            Department of Linguistics and African Languages, University of Ibadan

 

40)  Serialization of Ọbasa's poems in the Yorùbá News newspaper                       Tolulope Ibikunle                                                                                                      Department of Linguistics and African Languages, University of Ibadan

 

 

41)  A Comparative Study of Yoruba News and Alaroye                                              Adefemi Akinseloyin                                                                                              Department of Linguistics and African Languages, University of Ibadan

 

42)  Poetic Exploration of Obasa's Prolegomenous Poetry                                            Duro Adeleke                                                                                                        Linguistics & African Languages, University of Ibadan, Ibadan

 

 

43)  Representation of Women in Ọbasá's Poetry                                                              Ayọ̀ọlá Àránsí Ọládùnńkẹ́ and Hakeem Ọláwálé                                                          Department Of Linguistics, African and European Languages,                                  Kwara State University, Màlété

 

44)  The Yorùbá Social Values in Ọbasá's Poetry                                                           Saudat Adebisi Olayide Hamzat and Hezekiah Olufemi Adeosun                            Department of Linguistics & Nigerian Languages,                                               University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Kwara State

 

 

45)  Portrayal of Social Vices in D.A. Obasa's Poetry                                                Abiodun Oluwafemi                                                                                           Department of Linguistics and African Languages, Obafemi Awolowo University

 

46)  When Translation Fails, What Next?: The Burden of Translating Obasa's Poetry into English                                                                                                          Akintunde Akinyemi                                                                                               University of Florida

 

 

47)  Contemporary Explorations of History and Society                                              Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto (Co-Host Sponsored Panel)

 

48)  Religious NGOs and Grassroots Development in Nigeria: Some Selected Case Studies in the Northwest 1980s- to present                                                                  Professor Mukhtar Umar Bunzam                                                                      Department of History, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, Nigeria

 

 

49)  Women Academics and historiography in the Nigerian University

Aisha Balarabe Bawa PhD                                                                                       Department of History, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, Nigeria

 

 

50)  State, Economy and Religious Activism in Northern Nigeria: A Periscopic view on Maitatsine and Boko-Haram Uprisings                                                                   Abubakar Sama'ila, PhD                                                                                         Department of History, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto-Nigeria

 

 

51)  An Overview of Nigeria's Produce Inspection and Related Regulations in the Second Half of the Colonial Period                                                                                 Aminu Umar Alkammawa                                                                                        Department of History, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto

 

 

52)  African Languages and Knowledge Systems: An Examination of Hausa Influence on Yoruba Vocabulary of Ara Ilorin                                                                              Z. S.  Sambo                                                                                                          Department of History, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto

 

 

53)  Fulani Traditional Knowledge System and the Economy of Farmer-Herder Conflicts In Contemporary Nigeria                                                                                  Murtala Ahmed Rufa'i                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Department of History, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, Nigeria

 

 

54)  Pan-African Knowledge Production and the Imperative of Thought Liberation for Development in Africa                                                                                            Samuel O Oloruntoba and Vusi Gumede                                                                      Thabo Mbeki Africa Leadership Institute, University of South Africa

 

 

55)  Uncovering the Merits of African Justice with the Help of the Receptor Approach to Human Rights                                                                                                                 Serges Djoyou Kamga

Associate Prof at the Thabo Mbeki African Leadership Institute, (UNISA); and

Tom Zwart

Professor of Cross Cultural Human Rights at The University of Utrecht

 

 

56)  Towards an Afrodecolonial Curriculum at Universities: A South African Perspective                                                                                                                          Edith Phaswana (PhD)

Thabo Mbeki African Leadership Institute, UNISA

 

 

57)  Extending the Ritual Archive: Mokhokha as an African Epistemology of the Body           Dikeledi A. Mokoena

Thabo Mbeki African Leadership institute, University of South Africa

 

 

58)  Human Security in Africa                                                                                             Aluko Opeyemi  Idowu

Department of Political Science, Kwara State University, Ilorin; and

Ishola Ajadi

Department of Public Administration, University of Ilorin

 

 

59)  Equating Gender Equality with Gender Security: A Democratic Gender Discourse   Osezua .Ehiyamen..PhD,

Department of Public Administration, University of Ilorin

Aluko Opeyemi Idowu

Political Science Department, University of Ilorin

Dr.Clementina Osezua

Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Obafemi Awolowo University,Ile –Ife; Akindele Iyiola Ph.D

Department of Public Administration, University of Ilorin

 

 

60)  Freedom, Democracy and Security in Africa                                                   Dr.Samuel Oyedele

Bello Mohammed Lawan; and

Abdulkareem Abdulrazaq Kayode,

Department of Public Administration, University of Ilorin

 

 

61)  Development and Inclusion in Urban and Rural Areas                                     Dr.Samuel Oyedele

Bello Mohammed Lawan,

Abdulkareem Abdulrazaq Kayode; and

Umar Abubakar Yaru

Department of Public Administration, University of Ilorin

 

 

62)  Democratic Freedom and Security Challenges in Developing Democracies: The Nexus and Implications                                                                                             Osezua Ehiyamen, Ph.D

Department of Public Administration, University of Ilorin

 

 

63)  Nation Building Efforts In Nigeria: Repositioning N.Y.S.C For Better Service Delivery

Aborisade, Daniel Atilade

Department Of Political Science and Public Administration,

Babcock University, Ilishan-Remo, Ogun State.Nigeria

 

 

64)  Transnational Feminism and its Impact on Knowledge Production in Nigerian Universities: An Exploratory Study

Olutayo Molatokunbo

Abiola Seun; and

Yalley Abena Asefuaba

Gender Studies Programme, Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan, Nigeria

 

 

65)  Bureaucratic Ethos and Development in Africa: The Nigerian Experience            Abu Idris;  and

Otinche Sunday Inyokwe (PhD)

Department of Public Administration, Faculty of Management and Social Sciences IBB University, Lapai-Niger State

 

 

66)  Colonial Antecedents and its Continuing Impact: Nigeria in Perspective       Mustapha Sule Lamido; and

Abubakar Aliyu Rafindadi

Department of Political Science and International Studies,

Faculty of Social Sciences, Ahmadu Bello University Zaria

 

 

67)  Political Parties and Party Politics in Nigeria, a Dilemma of Democracy.      Abubakar Aliyu Rafindadi; and

Abdulfattah Yakubu Alhassan

Department of Political Science and International Studies,

Faculty of Social Sciences, Ahmadu Bello University Zaria

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Reaction to Trump's Comments on Africa and Haiti

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Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - With crass epithet, Trump reportedly dismisses African, Latino immigration -Boston Globe

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On 12 January 2018 at 00:34, Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju <toyin.adepoju@gmail.com> wrote:



With crass epithet, Trump reportedly dismisses African, Latino immigration



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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump grew frustrated with lawmakers Thursday in the Oval Office when they floated restoring protections for immigrants from Haiti, El Salvador and African countries as part of a bipartisan immigration deal, according to two people briefed on the meeting.

''Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?'' Trump said, according to these people, referring to African countries and Haiti. He then suggested that the United States should instead bring more people from countries like Norway, whose prime minister he met yesterday.

The comments left lawmakers taken aback, according to people familiar with their reactions. Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Richard Durbin, D-Ill., proposed cutting the visa lottery program by 50 percent and then prioritizing countries already in the system, a White House official said.

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A White House spokesman declined to offer an immediate comment on Trump's remarks to The Washington Post. However, the Associated Press reported that a spokesman reached by AP reporters did not deny that Trump made the profane remark.

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Spokesman Raj Shah told the AP in a statement that while ''certain Washington politicians choose to fight for foreign countries,'' Trump ''will always fight for the American people.''

He also told the AP that Trump wants to welcome immigrants who ''contribute to our society, grow our economy and assimilate into our great nation,'' and will always reject ''temporary, weak and dangerous stopgap measures'' that he says ''threaten the lives of hardworking Americans'' and undercut other immigrants.

Outlining a potential bipartisan deal, the lawmakers discussed restoring protections for countries that have been removed from the temporary protected status program while adding $1.5 billion for a border wall and making changes to the visa lottery system.

The administration announced earlier this week that it was removing the protection for El Salvador.

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Trump had seemed amenable to a deal earlier in the day during phone calls, aides said, but shifted his position in the meeting and did not seem interested.

Graham and Durbin thought they would be meeting with Trump alone and were surprised to find immigration hard-liners such as Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., at the meeting. The meeting was impromptu and came after phone calls this morning, Capitol Hill aides said.

After the meeting, Marc Short, Trump's legislative aide, said the White House was nowhere near a bipartisan deal on immigration.

''We still think we can get there,'' White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said at the White House press briefing.

Material from the Associated Press was used in this report.


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USA Africa Dialogue Series - UNILAG senior staff alleges VC's threat to his life

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A senior member of staff at the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Joseph Adefolalu has alleged a threat to his life by the university's Vice Chancellor, Oluwatoyin Ogundipe.

Mr Adefolalu made the allegation in a press statement sent to EduCeleb.com on Thursday. He claimed that the threat was as a result of his activeness in the "crusade against injustice".

The former UNILAG Chairman of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) alleged that he was being victimised due to his role in fighting against the UNILAG style of implementing the sharing formula of the earned allowances received from the Federal Government of Nigeria.


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USA Africa Dialogue Series - Baze University commends Niger State government on revamping teacher education, donates N10million

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Baze University has commended the effort of the Niger State government in revamping teacher education in the state.

According to a statement sent to EduCeleb.com and signed by the Chief Press Secretary to the governor, Jibrin Baba Ndace, the University also donated N10 Million to boost efforts of the Governor Abubakar Sani-Bello led government in that direction.

Mr Ndace said the Abuja-based private university made the donation by issuing a cheque and a covering letter to the state governor personally signed by the Pro-Chancellor of the university, Senator Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed dated 8th January, 2018.

In the one page letter titled, "Our Support for Teachers Training in Niger State", the university said the donation was in fulfilment of the institution's promise to support the teachers training programme initiated by Gov. Sani-Bello's administration.



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USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: REVISITING PROFESSOR CHRIS IMAFIDON'S CLAIM TO OXFORD PROFESSORSHIP

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  1. This should interest thee and other discussants : What's a 'professor'? – TheTLS

  2. "When Nigeria was granted self-administered enslavement…" ?

How can any self-respecting African talk like that, even in derision, like a bitter old Negro?

       3.  Listen well, well, well : as Fela put it, "Na White man teach Africans to carry shit"


And lest we forget, and fail to bear it in mind at all times, Daniel O. Fagunwa &  Yoruba writers& Ngugi with all of his crew notwithstanding, for your edification, with the spread of Western Civilisation, the rise and supremacy of  Her Majesty the Queen's English Language Empire


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rV89ldxaVlg



On Wednesday, 10 January 2018 22:45:31 UTC+1, ogunlakaiye wrote:

Permit me to revisit the claim of Chris Imafidon to being an Oxford Professor. Professor Chris Imafidon, on Thursday, 19 October 2017, delivered the 33rd Convocation Lecture of the University of Ilorin, titled : THE GENIUS IN YOU - NEW TOOLS, TECHNIQUES AND TECHNOLOGY FOR DEVELOPING THE INDIVIDUAL AND INSTITUTIONAL GREATNESS. Professor Chris Imafidon was granted  privilege to deliver the lecture because the decision makers at the University of Ilorin were convinced that he is a Professor at the University of Oxford, London. About a month after the lecture, the Punch newspaper in Nigeria claimed it investigated the claim of Professor Chris Imafidon to being a Professor at the University of Oxford and discovered it false, as the authorities at Oxford University and all its affiliated colleges denied any academic relationship with him. The Punch did not confirm if Chris Imafidon is a Professor somewhere else even though not Ocford.


Premised on the Punch newspaper's disclosure, Professor Moses Ebe Ochonu launched an all out attack on University of Ilorin, for allowing itself to be deceived by a dubious Professor in the person of Chris Imafidon. Professor Ochonu's article was posted on this forum by Professor Toyin Falola on Saturday, 16 December 2017 and titled : On Chris Imafidon, Oxford and the government Graft. Referring to the Punch investigative article, Professor Ochonu wrote that it turned out that 'Chris Imafidon is our latest high profile international academic scam artist in the tradition of Philip Emeagwali and Gabriel Oyibo.' On the same day that the aforementioned article was posted, a Professor of Queen's English, Farooq Kperogi, took a free ride on Professor Ochonu's article by posting on this forum what he titled : Remember Enoch Opeyemi Who Claimed to Have Solved Riemann Hypothesis. To Moses and Farooq, Professor Toyin Falola posed a question : If you are not based in Oxford, and you deceive yourself and others to the level of giving a Convocation Lecture, is this not a madness? Professor Falola's question spurred me into thinking that a Professor delivering a convocation lecture must sound like a Professor to his audience, otherwise he or she will risk being exposed to ridicule. A false claim to being a Professor in ordinary  public space may be simple but to act or behave as a Professor within a University environment is very difficult. From what we have read so far, neither Professor Ochonu nor the Punch newspaper produced any evidence to show that Chris Imafidon's Convocation Lecture did not measure up to the standard of a Professor. And the way Professor Falola framed his question to Professors Ochonu and Kperogi seemed to indicate that he was not in doubt if Chris Imafidon is a real Professor but doubted if he is based in Oxford. If Chris Imafidon is a Professor somewhere else but not in Oxford as the question raised by  Professor Falola would imply, Chris Imafidon would be guilty of fame padding because his claim to be an Oxford Professor which he is not increased his fame more than what it would have been if he had given the correct name of the less famous University in which he is based.  Fame padding which is the same as academic padding is not harmful as it was illustrated by the  case of a Director at Bazita Sugar Refinery in Kwara State, in 1984.


In 1984, under the military rule of General Muhammadu Buhari, there was a public commission of enquiry pertaining to financial miss-appropriation at the then Bazita Sugar Refinery then in Kwara State. The Director of the Company was accused of claiming to be a PhD holder in Bio-Chemistry by a witness at the enquiry, whereas he possessed just BSc in Bio-Chemistry. The witness informed the Commission that the Director had registered for a PhD course in Bio-Chemistry at the University of Manchester in UK which he did not follow up. Counsel to the Director asked the witness, 'What is the least qualification required to be the Director of the Sugar Refinery?' Witness did not know. Counsel reframed the question, 'Is PhD in Bio-Chemistry required and necessary to be the Director of Bazita Sugar Refinery?'  Witness answered no. Counsel asked the witness to tell the commission the significance of the epithets, Alhaji, Bishop, Pastor, Chief, General, Marshall, Doctor and Professor when used singly or collectively by any person as practised in Nigeria. Since the witness kept mute, the counsel asked rhetorically and demanded answer in yes or no, 'Are they not just ordinary titles?' The witness answered, yes. Buhari was overthrown and the report of the enquiry was never made public to the best of my knowledge. The Director of Bazita Sugar Refinery certainly padded his academic qualification but it had no adverse effect on the functions and productions of the Company at that time. Considering the use of epithets in Nigeria, one can see that Nigerians are title-sick which is why they buy, sell, forge, and even rent titles. Most Nigerians do not want to be ordinary persons. They must be great somebody, be important and very important person whether they add important value to the country or not.


I want to argue that we Nigerians may be the most intellectually gullible people on earth. That may be an exaggeration, but we tend to be drawn to bombastic, self-promoting persons and are thus easy prey for fraudulent claimants to academic genius. We also hunger for heroes, making t possible for dubious persons to fulfil that longing for us. ....//.... If according to the scammers, the white man says they are praise-worthy, who are we to object or scrutinize their claim? That is our approach to these men. We cannot conceive of a world in which people and objects purportedly authenticated by the white man should be questioned or verified - Professor Moses Ebe Ochonu.


I strongly object to referring to Chris Imafidon, Philip Emeagwali and Gabriel Oyibo as scammers. To begin with, the University of Ilorin had given a pass mark to the Convocation Lecture delivered by Chris Imafidon. If Professor Ochonu had been present at the Convocation Lecture, he too would have doubtlessly clapped his hands to applaud Chris Imafidon for his Lecture just as those who were present there did. What was really important to the audience was if Imafidon's Lecture was proficiently Professorial or not. As long as the University of Ilorin and the audience were satisfied that Imafidon sounded like a Professor in his Convocation Lecture it will be wrong to refer to him as a scammer not even if he is not a real Professor in Anglo-American sense. In France and Latin countries a teacher is called a Professor!! And for Imafidon to have succeeded in delivering a Convocation Lecture as a Professor without being one, confirmed the saying that the hood does not make a monk. 

Talking about white man's authenticated scammers for Nigerians, should it not be right to conclude that all Nigerians in the Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDA) whose academic papers have been authenticated by the white man are scammers since all the MDAs in Nigeria are dysfunctional? Why should any Nigerian castigate the white man as authenticator of scammers in respect of Imafidon, Emeagwali and Oyibo but not when the same white man is the authenticator of Ochonu and Kperogi as Professors? Evidently, neither Imafidon nor Emeagwali or Oyibo holds position in any MDA in Nigeria. Are we not leaving substances and chasing shadows by questioning their academic worth when we should be questioning the genuineness of the academic qualifications of those elected/selected/appointed/employed in the MDAs of Nigeria producing backward economic and industrial developments for the country? 


Michael O. Afolayan joined the debate on Thursday, 21 December 2017, and part of his post read, "I also agree with Moses, the self-hate that characterizes our unquenchable appetite for anything foreign has become the tether that ties us to the post of inferiority, imbuing other people's junks and rejecting our own valuables. ....//.... Had Chris Imafidon made the mistake of claiming to be a graduate of a Nigerian University, he would have become a laughing stock from Day One of his jolly ride."  


In the Nigerian context, unquenchable appetite for anything foreign implies everything from the white man. Dr. Afolayan, like all educated Nigerians, is sitting on a stem of a tree planted by the White man. If he thinks the tree does not serve the interest of Nigeria, he cannot sit tight on the stem of the White man's tree and at the same time pretend cutting it down. The wisest thing to do is to climb down from the neo-colonial White man's tree and uproot it since it does not serve the interest of Nigerians. He cannot pretend to having no appetite for the White man's neo-colonial tree while at the same time sitting comfortably on its stem. The language of governance in Nigeria, English, is white man's and foreign. Over 98% of Nigerians cannot read, write or speak English properly. Our Universities are modelled after English and American systems which are foreign. If the Convocation Lecture at the University of Ilorin had been delivered by a Nigerian-based Professor instead of the supposedly Oxford-based Professor, it would not have turned the delivered Lecture into indigenous one, as Dr. Michael Afolayan seemed to suggest. This is because the institution is foreign and the language of expression at the Lecture, English, is white. The truth which Western educated Nigerians never want to admit is that the political, educational, economic and judicial systems in Nigeria are subordinate to the U.S. and European Union. Despite that a national flag and a national anthem was conceded to Nigeria in 1960, we are still controlled by the white world. How is that possible?


When Nigeria was granted self-administered enslavement, the rank  of leaders of our government was that of slave overseers. Of course, when white men departed Nigeria, Western educated Nigerians took over their jobs, inherited their rates of pay and their privileges, played their roles and assumed their attitudes towards ordinary Nigerians. Chinua Achebe narrated what happened when British left government ministries, public and privately held firms, corporations, organizations, and schools in Nigeria after October 1, 1960. He wrote, "... a number of internal jobs, especially the senior management positions, began to open up for Nigerians, particularly for those with a university education. It was into these positions vacated by the British that a number of people like myself were placed. ...//... This bequest was much greater than just stepping into jobs left behind by the British. Members of my generation also moved into homes in the former British quarters previously occupied by members of the European senior civil servant. These homes often came with servants - chauffeurs, maids, cooks, gardeners, stewards - whom the British had organized meticulously to ease their colonial sojourn. Now following the departure of the Europeans, many domestic staff stayed in the same positions and were only too grateful to continue their designated salaried roles in post-independence Nigeria. Their masters were no longer European but their brothers and sisters." (p. 48-9, There Was a Country).

What Chinua Achebe failed to note is that Nigerians who stepped into the jobbs left by the British in Nigeria were serving the interest of the British people in the same manner as the departed British officials. The Yoruba people who observed the life-styles of the new Nigerian officials that replaced the British, euphemistically referred to them as, ÒYÌNBÓ ALÁWÒ DÚDÚ meaning WHITE MAN WITH BLACK SKIN. Right from the beginning, acquisition of Western education was introduced to Nigerians as means of enjoying white man's standard of living without labour because the concept of work, as we were indoctrinated, is associated with suffering, punishment and unsuccessful life. Initially, the MDAs could absorb all educated Nigerians into the bureaucracy which soon became congested as more Nigerians acquired white man's education in order to escape working for their livings. Consequently, ethnicity and religion became tools of competition to gain admission into the club of White man with black skin. The throat-cutting competitions for position in offices led to the insertion of 'Federal Character' into the Constitution of Nigeria which guaranteed appointment or employment to individuals regardless of competence and ability to perform in office. Thus, when the white world typecast the Blacks in general as unintelligent and inferior to the whites, it is not because of the colour of the skin alone, as Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray had indicated in their book, THE BELL CURVE, but because the Black man has refused to be the master of his environment and manager of his endowed natural resources of which Nigerians are typical example. The tether that ties us to the post of inferiority is, therefore, not our appetite for anything foreign, as Dr. Michael Afolayan stated, but our ignorant belief that Western Europeans that carted us to America and West Indies as slaves and later partitioned Africa into their colonies at the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885, had set us free and the colonisers are now treating us as their equals. The reason why we were colonised as it was historically recorded was never philanthropic.


Supporting Italy's invasion of Abyssinia (now Ethiopia) in 1935, Sir Arthur Willert wrote, "Italy must expand. She came late into the world as a Great Power and found that the good parts of the earth had already been apportioned between luckier countries. She cannot with her rapidly growing population, now in the neighbourhood of 45, 000, 000 (45 million) remain forever cooped up in her peninsula with its large tracts of barren mountains and its lack of essential raw materials (p. 206, The Frontiers of England by Sir Arthur Willert)." And where was Italy going to get raw materials and food to feed her rapidly growing population? Sir Arthur Willert answered that question on page 211 of his book thus, "Italy, in going for the Abyssinians (Ethiopians), is fighting on behalf of Europe. Europe is losing Asia; the Western Hemisphere is full up. So, of the great spaces of the world from which a short time ago her countries (European countries) could draw cheap supplies of food and raw material, only Africa remains. If Europe loses this last reservoir, it is done, it will shrink to nothing. Hence the Africans must be kept down."

Wailing over lack of food and raw material in the German Reichstag (Parliament), on 20 February 1938, Chancellor Adolf Hitler said among other things, "Our economic position is a difficult one, not because National-Socialism is at the helm, because 140 people must live on a square kilometre; because we are not in possession of those great, natural resources enjoyed by other people; because, above all we have a scarcity of fertile soil. If Great Britain should suddenly dissolve today and England become dependent solely on her own territory, then the people there would perhaps have more understanding of the seriousness of economic tasks which confront us (p.63, note 1, PEACE WITH THE DICTATORS By Sir Norman Angell)." Continuing on page 64, Adolf complained about the impossibility of feeding 140 people to a square kilometre without colonial rounding-off. Therefore, he concluded, "No matter what we may achieve by increasing the German production, all this cannot remove the impossible nature of the space allotted to Germany. The claim for German colonial possessions will, therefore, be voiced from year to year with increasing vigour, possessions which Germany did not take away from other countries ........ but appear indispensable for our own people." German colonial possessions which Hitler intended claiming with vigour so as to provide food and raw materials for the hungry Germans were South West Africa (now Namibia), Tanganyika (now Tanzania) Cameroon and Togo seized from Germany as a result of World War I. The total landmass area of those countries together is 2, 298,731square kilometres, compared to Germany with a landmass area of 357,041 square kilometres. Germany's natural resources barren and unfertile soil remain the same till date just as it is with Italy, France, Belgium, Britain, Spain, Portugal and other Western European countries. That was why Africa was colonised and the reason for colonialization of Africa remains the same although colonialization is self-administered nowadays by African indigenes as we have in Nigeria. The self-administered colonialism makes it  possible for Nigeria to export crude oil to Italy, Germany and other countries in Europe where it is refined into various products for their citizens to consume, whereas Nigerians must sleep at fuel stations to buy petrol. The dysfunctional Nigeria's crude oil refineries are not manned by Imafidon, Opeyemi, Emeagwali or Oyibo but by qualified academic degree holders both from home and foreign Universities. If the academic degrees of managers of Nigeria's oil refineries are not fake, why are the crude oil refineries in permanent coma?


Professor Moses Ochonu's article titled, On Chris Imafidon, Oxford and Government Graft, did not receive so much comments as Professor Farooq Kperogi's, Remember Enoch Opeyemi who claimed to have solved the Riemann Hypothesis. In his reaction to the said article, Victor Okafor addressed two questions to Professor Kperogi, (1) Have you taken any step to find out from the Clay Mathematics Institute why and how it determined that Dr. Enoch Opeyemi's claim was false, inadequate or inaccurate? (2) What are the specific steps by which that institute arrived at its judgment, if any, that Dr, Opeyemi was merely fantasizing? These reasonable questions deserved answers in view of the claim by Professor Farooq Kperogi that after two years, he checked Clay Mathematics Institute, and the Riemann Hypothesis that Opeyemi claimed to have solved two years ago is still listed as unsolved. Surprisingly, Professor Farooq Kperogi completely ignored the intelligent questions raised by Victor Okafor. Instead, he resorted to childish display of unimportant knowledge with minute observance of petty rules and details of grammatical blunders committed by a commentator who, however, supported his views on Opeyemi. Sometimes, we write in haste and hurriedly post comments without reading to check for possible mistakes. Normal intellectuals, not braggadocios, always ignore such mistakes as long as they do not distort the sense in the conveyed message. Dr. Enoch Opeyemi, a mathematics lecturer at the Federal University of Oye-Ekiti, Nigeria, submitted papers to the US-based Clay Mathematics Institute claiming that he had solved the 156-year-old Riemann Hypothesis. After receiving Opeyemi's papers, Clay Mathematics Institute is obliged to publicly reject or accept his solution as contained in the submitted papers. Silence by the US-based Clay Mathematics Institute can only imply that Dr. Enoch Opeyemi actually solved the Riemann Hypothesis but the all white- dominated jury of the Institute are unwilling to accord recognition to the black man, Dr. Opeyemi, for solving the mathematical hypothesis in question. Dr. Opeyemi did not submit his papers to a PhD student for evaluation and decision but to Clay Mathematics Institute. The tragedy here, therefore, is not that a Ku Klux Klan PhD student is allowed to determine the veracity of Dr. Opeyemi's papers, as Professor Kperogi jubilantly stated, but his inability to see the racist and despiteful attitude of the authorities at the US-based Clay Mathematics Institute to Dr. Opeyemi who kept silent, over his professed solution to the Riemann Hypothesis, whether right or wrong. In the fields of Mathematics, Science and Technology, a white man will never accord a black man due honour for any new invention or discovery. The usual thing is for the white man to accept the black man's papers and make it his own. At best, the name of the black man may appear at the rear of the paper and introduced as a collaborator. Appropriation of others inventions or discoveries  is not uncommon even between whites as the discovery of the AIDS virus in the 1980s proved. For the sake of the unsuspecting, let me recall that incident.


Dr. Robert Gallo of the US National Cancer Institute would have succeeded in appropriating to himself the discovery of the AIDS virus, if Dr. Luc Montagnier of the French Pasteur Institute, Paris, had been a black man or a Nigerian as Dr. Enoch Opeyemi. It was so that Dr. Luc Montagnier and colleagues at Pasteur Institute had succeeded in isolating a virus from the Lymph node of a homosexual patient in 1983 and had their result published in the Journal, Science of 20 May 1983. They named the isolated virus, Lymphadenopathy- Associated Virus (LAV). However, Dr. Robert Gallo claimed that LAV was a family member of his own virus named Human T-cell Leukaemia Virus-1 (HTLV-I). Montagnier disagreed and sent an isolate of LAV  to Dr. Gallo on 23 September 1983, to help establish that LAV was not related to HTLV-I but a distinct virus. Pasteur Institute filed for a British and a US patent for blood test in September and December 1983, respectively. Suddenly, on 23 April 1984, Dr. Gallo appeared at a press conference in the company of the US Secretary of Health and Human Services, Margaret Heckler where the latter announced that American Scientists (Gallo and his Team) had discovered probable cause of AIDS. On the same day, the American government filed for AIDS testing kits patent.  Gallo's AIDS virus discovery was published in the Science of 4 May 1984 with the photographs of the new virus, named Human T-cell Leukaemia Virus -Three (HTLV-III). It was subsequently discovered that Gallo's HTLV-III AIDS virus was identical to LAV isolate which Montagnier had sent to him on 23 September 1983. On 28 May 1985 the US Patent and Trademark Office awarded Gallo a patent on blood test kits but remained silent on Montagnier's application that preceded that of Gallo by nine months. Therefore, the Pasteur Institute filed a lawsuit at a US federal high court accusing National Cancer Institute of theft of the virus, LAV. In view of the political and commercial potentials of AIDS disease, President Ronald Regan of the US and President Jacques Chirac of France met in 1987 and agreed to out of court settlement, whereby Dr. Gallo was designated co-discoverer of the AIDS virus with Dr. Montagnier and royalties on blood test were to be shared equally between the warring AIDS combatants. A new name, Human Immunodeficiency Virus with the acronym, HIV, replaced LAV and HTLV-III. (see AIDS: THE HIV MYTH BY JAD ADAMS as well as AND THE BAND PLAYED ON BY RANDY SHILTS). Who actually discovered what today is known as HIV was finally settled in 2008 when the Nobel Price for the discovery was awarded to Dr. Luc Montagnier and his French colleague, Dr Francoise Barré-Sinoussi. The Nobel Price Committee explained that HIV was discovered in 1983 and not 1984!! If conflict could occur between a white French and a white American over who discovered HIV, I leave the rest to the imagination of readers to guess what could have happened when a black Nigerian, Dr. Enoch Opeyemi, submitted his papers on the solution of Riemann Hypothesis to the white American owned Clay Mathematics Institute.


Finally, I am not holding brief for Dr. Enoch Opeyemi or any of those accused of fake or fraudulent academic claims. Since Western education has not contributed to the growth of economy in Nigeria industrially through advances in medicine, science and technology, should it not be admitted that all Nigerian officials with academic qualifications that have failed the country are also fake or fraudulent academics? In the Nigeria Handbook of 1970, it was stated that mineral resources of the country consist of Limestone, Petroleum Oil and Gas, Tin and Colum-bite, Iron Ore, Lead-Zinc, Gold, Marble, Stone, Zircon, Coal and Lignite. Nigeria has 74 million hectares of arable land and 2.5 million hectares of irrigation land. The rainforest in the South contains different species of Timber. In May 1970, THE NIGERIAN COUNCIL FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY was inaugurated by the Military Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon. Three of the objectives of the Nigerian Council for Science and Technology as stated on page one of its inaugural brochure were (a) to determine priorities for scientific activities in the Federation in relation to the economic and social policies of the country and its international commitments, (c) to ensure theapplication of the results of scientific activitiesto the development of agriculture, industry and social welfare in the Federation, (d) to ensure co-operation and co-ordination between the various agencies involved in the machinery for making the national science policy. Further on page 2, it is stated that the functions of the Council shall, among others, be (a) to consider and advise generally on all scientific activities, including (i)the application of the results of research, (ii) the transfer of technology into agriculture and industry. The thirty-five members of the Council consisted of eleven Federal Permanent Secretaries from Ministries of, Agriculture and Natural Resources, Communications, Economic Development and Reconstruction, Education, Finance, Health, Industries, Mines and Power, Trade, and Transport. Each of the then twelve states was represented by a person with, at least, an academic degree of B.Sc. while twelve representatives of science disciplines in Agricultural, Experimental, Industrial, Medical, Environmental and Social Sciences were also members. In his inaugural address to members, Major-General Yakubu Gowon said, "Nigeria is endowed with immense natural resources, which, if properly developed through the application of science and technology, would ensure for the present and future generations (of Nigeria) a bright economic future." Almost forty-eight years after the inauguration of the Nigerian Council For Science And Technology, Nigeria's herdsmen still traverse several hundred kilometres within the country to graze their cattle, a burden which some professors regard as herdsmen's fundamental human right worth defending. Our Agricultural system is still sustained by farmers primitively equipped with cutlasses and hoes. Crude oil we cannot refine; potable water we cannot pump; electricity we cannot generate and distribute; iron ore we cannot mine and work into steel; and our hospitals have been reduced to morgues while our leaders and officials run to the white man, from whom they claimed we have been liberated, to receive treatments. All Ministries, Departments and Agencies created to produce goods and services are manned by Nigerians whose academic degrees have certified them as capable of producing what are required from their respective office. Their failures in office can only mean that their academic degrees are fake and that is why Nigeria is poor and underdeveloped. While our Nigerian English Language Fundamentalists are blowing their grammars, the Dutch speaking Julius Berger is building Houses and Bridges and constructing roads for Nigeria, just as not so good English speaking Chinese are laying rail tracks for Nigeria.  In fact there is need to write a book titled: HOW EDUCATED NIGERIANS ARE UNDERDEVELOPING NIGERIA AND IMPOVERISHING HER CITIZENS. 

S. Kadiri


   




 

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USA Africa Dialogue Series - ARUA/Mellon funded PhD positions

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Three ARUA/Mellon funded PhD positions available and effective immediately at the University of Cape Town on the theme "Mobility and Sociality in Africa's Emerging Urban"

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The African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA) is seeking post-doctoral fellows to join a five year research programme entitled 'Mobility and Sociality in Africa's Emerging Urban.' This initiative is a scholarly response to unprecedented levels of urbanisation and mobility driven by conflict, ambition, and respatialising economies. It is intended to develop African-based contributions to theories of human mobility and transforming modes of social engagement, authority, representation and expression. This initiative brings together five African Universities dedicated to cultivating a generation of African scholars who can reshape global social theory and scholarly conversations on mobility, cities and social change. It promises to open new scholarly frontiers and enhance the quality of pedagogy and partnerships while positively transforming the continent's universities. The initiative is dedicated to fostering interdisciplinarity, engagement with the arts, and creative research and outreach methodologies.

PhD proposals are invited for recent social science and humanities MA graduates dedicated to answering one or more of the following questions:

What new forms of moral authority operate in rapidly urbanising contexts? What are the forms of alternative authority that emerge in contexts where the State is largely absent?

How are these changing people's imagination of traditional hierarchies of age gender and family structure? How are these connected to new notions of morality rooted in age gender and social obligation?

How are changing forms of violence legitimated? What becomes visible as violence and what is eclipsed?

How does widespread translocalism and ongoing mobility reshape urban morphologies and residential patterns; social interactions; subjective understanding of citizenship; representation and civic identity: what is political society in spaces only loosely structured by states and formal markets?

What cultural practices are being reshaped and reconceptualised by mobile urban residents? What are the practical enacted ethics that enable people to make sense of varied diversities and to communicate and exchange across social divisions? How do people make sense of difference without shared histories or the disciplining institutions of common states, religion, or markets?

Interested candidates are should contact:

Professor Francis Nyamnjoh

Francis.nyamnjoh@uct.ac.za

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Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - REVISITING PROFESSOR CHRIS IMAFIDON'S CLAIM TO OXFORD PROFESSORSHIP

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Oxford is always in the limelight :


"It was a mistake. I shouldn't have gone to Oxford, and I remain ashamed that I did. Oxford was a very second-rate provincial university" ( V.S.Naipaul)


And now it's Oxford University accused of backing apologists of British colonialism



On Thursday, 11 January 2018 13:08:51 UTC+1, Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju wrote:
Ayotunde,

I am with you on 'efforts to ram down our throats special interest frauds, such as defending pastoralism in the 21st Century' among other points you make.

In identifying with Kadiri's position, though,  are you not being rather hasty, since the premises on which that position are based might not be premises you would identify with?

I understand Kadiri's argument as based on three major positions-

the people being criticized have not been adequately investigated before they were criticized.

the Western academy is hesitant or unwilling to grant recognition to Black people for the latter's legitimate achievements

Western education is of little or no use to Nigeria.

These are largely non-factual propositions.

Philip Emeagwali and Gabriel Oyibo, for example,  have been thoroughly investigated. Google can provide links to reports of those  investigations. Imafidon's case is dodgy. Why claim to be a prof. at Oxford if one is not?Abdulraufu Mustapha was a prof at Oxford. Wale Adebanwi is a prof at Cambridge. There are other Black academics in these institutions as there also are at Harvard with a no of Nigerian profs along with same in other unis across the world. So, its possible for a Black person. Why not work at achieving that goal instead of pretending to have achieved it?

As for Opeyemi, I wonder if those examining his story have taken their investigations to a conclusion.

It is possible to argue for a rethinking of how Black people engage with modernity without holding what are evidently non-factual perspectives.

The names of Toyin Falola and Claude Ake may be invoked in connection with creating self recognizing Black scholarship. We need to recognize, though, that Falola and Ake are primarily  scholars in the Western tradition, thinkers whose academic careers as we know them would not exist without  the Western academy and its distinctive epistemic and metaphysical underpinnings.

Falola has written Yoruba Gurus, for example, published works on Yoruba cosmology and knowledge systems, such as on Esu and Ifa, but to what degree is Falola a scion of classical Yoruba education, as represented, for example, by Ifa? Even Jan Vansina, a central figure in the use of orality in the study of African history and others exemplifying the flowering of that method in the Ibadan History School, of which Falola may be seen as a descendant, are scholars trained in the Western tradition integrating classical African cognitive systems into a superstructure enabled by Western historiography and the methods and institutions through which and in which it is largely taught, even as these and other scholars have had to debunk the racist assumptions on African history by  Hegel and his echoes in Trevor-Roper, same for such scholars as Bolaji Idowu in Olodumare: God in Yoruba Belief.

This is not surprising bcs the classical African educational systems had not reached the level of cosmopolitan orientation required to develop scholars of the kind and calibre of Falola or Vansina. Such a development is possible, and may be seen as gradually evolving, as evident in the scope of scholarship on Ifa, for example, but to reach the level of standardization, disciplinary coherence,  epistemic rigour   and distillation of global knowledge often within institutional contexts, represented by Western education is no small achievement. Wande Abimbola, a key scholar on Ifa, has opened an Ifa school, a beginning in the direction of such standardization.

Its vital to grasp what is of universal value in a cognitive system and adapt it to one's needs. I would think that is the current task facing global scholarship, as evident in Western philosophy's engagement with Asian thought,  Christians adapting ideas from African religions and philosophies or Africans and Asians learning from Western thought, while avoiding uncritical subordination of one culture's perspectives to that of another.

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On 11 January 2018 at 06:10, 'Ayotunde Bewaji' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafric...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
Compliments of the Season to you all and to the Moderator.

May I express my gratitude to Alagba Kadiri for revisiting the issues if intellectual challenges faced by subaltern peoples globally, but especially by Nigerian intellectuals' incapability to exercise restraint on the side of what I often dub "the principle of charity". My father, of blessed memory, taught me to never say o tun de o, which means, "he has come again, of someone I have never met, until the person has shown his/her true colour" . For that reason, am way more patient than most people, not because of my disciplinary affiliation, but because of open mindedness. Often I get "licks" for this, and colleagues and friends often say that am to accommodating, which cost me some things at times. But the better part of this is that my conscience is contented that I have not abused my position to tyrannize others. 

Now, I have not spoken to the correctness or otherwise of the claims of the three guys being vilified. Am not qualified to so speak, because I do not have the knowledge repertoire or training to intelligently pronounce. But I do understand the point made by Alagba Kadiri that we often are the most ardent enemies of ourselves, promoting the institutions of our subjugation uncritically and thereby being complicit in the destruction of our common ma/patrimony.

In 2008 when I presented my paper "Requiem to Western Education in Africana Societies" in Brazil, some of those who most virulently antagonized me and my description of "epistemicide" were the very people who needed that mirror which Alagba Kadiri is saying we need to put before ourselves to see which KKK faces and bodies - aka Black Skin, White Masks - we are confronting. In many chapters and with painstaking devotion, my contribution to the Series edited by Ojogbon Oloye Falola, Narratives of Struggle (Carolina Academic Press, 2012) addressed these issues. If the arguments therein prove rather hard to comprehend, why not read Claude Ake's Social Science as Imperialism. 

Alagba Kadiri, Sir, it is not strange that some of us use notoriety to substitute for careful and reasoned attention to the nuances of reality. A  former French President said it openly that without French Africa, where the Central Bank reside in Paris and African Budgets must be approved in Paris, France would be dead. Same goes for EU, USA, etc. They may not openly proclaim it, but that is the nature of the beast. And, as my father's Gramophone carried it, we are the masters' voice, doing the destruction for our oppressors.

When I read Professor Jibrin Ibrahim these days, I just shake my head at the level of intellectual decadence that has afflicted our collective being. Same goes for many things parading as erudition here. But it takes great control not to descend to name calling. Otherwise, what do you call efforts to ram down our throats special interest frauds, such as defending pastoralism in the 21st Century. 

When we say happy new year, how can one be happy in the face of an imbecilic NASS, Presidency, Judiciary, Law Enforcement Agencies, Labour Unions, and now intellectuals? Ecclesiastes 1:8 is correct, because indeed, "...in much wisdom comes much vexation, and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow".

Ire o.

Tunde.


On Wednesday, 10 January 2018, 15:45, Salimonu Kadiri <ogunl...@hotmail.com> wrote:


Permit me to revisit the claim of Chris Imafidon to being an Oxford Professor. Professor Chris Imafidon, on Thursday,, 19 October 2017, delivered the 33rd Convocation Lecture of the University of Ilorin, titled : THE GENIUS IN YOU - NEW TOOLS, TECHNIQUES AND TECHNOLOGY FOR DEVELOPING THE INDIVIDUAL AND INSTITUTIONAL GREATNESS. Professor Chris Imafidon was granted  privilege to deliver the lecture because the decision makers at the University of Ilorin were convinced that he is a Professor at the University of Oxford, London. About a month after the lecture, the Punch newspaper in Nigeria claimed it investigated the claim of Professor Chris Imafidon to being a Professor at the University of Oxford and discovered it false, as the authorities at Oxford University and all its affiliated colleges denied any academic relationship with him. The Punch did not confirm if Chris Imafidon is a Professor somewhere else even though not Ocford.

Premised on the Punch newspaper's disclosure, Professor Moses Ebe Ochonu launched an all out attack on University of Ilorin, for allowing itself to be deceived by a dubious Professor in the person of Chris Imafidon. Professor Ochonu's article was posted on this forum by Professor Toyin Falola on Saturday, 16 December 2017 and titled : On Chris Imafidon, Oxford and the government Graft. Referring to the Punch investigative article, Professor Ochonu wrote that it turned out that 'Chris Imafidon is our latest high profile international academic scam artist in the tradition of Philip Emeagwali and Gabriel Oyibo.' On the same day that the aforementioned article was posted, a Professor of Queen's English, Farooq Kperogi, took a free ride on Professor Ochonu's article by posting on this forum what he titled : Remember Enoch Opeyemi Who Claimed to Have Solved Riemann Hypothesis. To Moses and Farooq, Professor Toyin Falola posed a question : If you are not based in Oxford, and you deceive yourself and others to the level of giving a Convocation Lecture, is this not a madness? Professor Falola's question spurred me into thinking that a Professor delivering a convocation lecture must sound like a Professor to his audience, otherwise he or she will risk being exposed to ridicule. A false claim to being a Professor in ordinary  public space may be simple but to act or behave as a Professor within a University environment is very difficult. From what we have read so far, neither Professor Ochonu nor the Punch newspaper produced any evidence to show that Chris Imafidon's Convocation Lecture did not measure up to the standard of a Professor. And the way Professor Falola framed his question to Professors Ochonu and Kperogi seemed to indicate that he was not in doubt if Chris Imafidon is a real Professor but doubted if he is based in Oxford. If Chris Imafidon is a Professor somewhere else but not in Oxford as the question raised by  Professor Falola would imply, Chris Imafidon would be guilty of fame padding because his claim to be an Oxford Professor which he is not increased his fame more than what it would have been if he had given the correct name of the less famous University in which he is based.  Fame padding which is the same as academic padding is not harmful as it was illustrated by the  case of a Director at Bazita Sugar Refinery in Kwara State, in 1984.

In 1984, under the military rule of General Muhammadu Buhari, there was a public commission of enquiry pertaining to financial miss-appropriation at the then Bazita Sugar Refinery then in Kwara State. The Director of the Company was accused of claiming to be a PhD holder in Bio-Chemistry by a witness at the enquiry, whereas he possessed just BSc in Bio-Chemistry. The witness informed the Commission that the Director had registered for a PhD course in Bio-Chemistry at the University of Manchester in UK which he did not follow up. Counsel to the Director asked the witness, 'What is the least qualification required to be the Director of the Sugar Refinery?' Witness did not know. Counsel reframed the question, 'Is PhD in Bio-Chemistry required and necessary to be the Director of Bazita Sugar Refinery?'  Witness answered no. Counsel asked the witness to tell the commission the significance of the epithets, Alhaji, Bishop, Pastor, Chief, General, Marshall, Doctor and Professor when used singly or collectively by any person as practised in Nigeria. Since the witness kept mute, the counsel asked rhetorically and demanded answer in yes or no, 'Are they not just ordinary titles?' The witness answered, yes. Buhari was overthrown and the report of the enquiry was never made public to the best of my knowledge. The Director of Bazita Sugar Refinery certainly padded his academic qualification but it had no adverse effect on the functions and productions of the Company at that time. Considering the use of epithets in Nigeria, one can see that Nigerians are title-sick which is why they buy, sell, forge, and even rent titles. Most Nigerians do not want to be ordinary persons. They must be great somebody, be important and very important person whether they add important value to the country or not.

I want to argue that we Nigerians may be the most intellectually gullible people on earth. That may be an exaggeration, but we tend to be drawn to bombastic, self-promoting persons and are thus easy prey for fraudulent claimants to academic genius. We also hunger for heroes, making t possible for dubious persons to fulfil that longing for us. ....//.... If according to the scammers, the white man says they are praise-worthy, who are we to object or scrutinize their claim? That is our approach to these men. We cannot conceive of a world in which people and objects purportedly authenticated by the white man should be questioned or verified - Professor Moses Ebe Ochonu.

I strongly object to referring to Chris Imafidon, Philip Emeagwali and Gabriel Oyibo as scammers. To begin with, the University of Ilorin had given a pass mark to the Convocation Lecture delivered by Chris Imafidon. If Professor Ochonu had been present at the Convocation Lecture, he too would have doubtlessly clapped his hands to applaud Chris Imafidon for his Lecture just as those who were present there did. What was really important to the audience was if Imafidon's Lecture was proficiently Professorial or not. As long as the University of Ilorin and the audience were satisfied that Imafidon sounded like a Professor in his Convocation Lecture it will be wrong to refer to him as a scammer not even if he is not a real Professor in Anglo-American sense. In France and Latin countries a teacher is called a Professor!! And for Imafidon to have succeeded in delivering a Convocation Lecture as a Professor without being one, confirmed the saying that the hood does not make a monk. 
Talking about white man's authenticated scammers for Nigerians, should it not be right to conclude that all Nigerians in the Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDA) whose academic papers have been authenticated by the white man are scammers since all the MDAs in Nigeria are dysfunctional? Why should any Nigerian castigate the white man as authenticator of scammers in respect of Imafidon, Emeagwali and Oyibo but not when the same white man is the authenticator of Ochonu and Kperogi as Professors? Evidently, neither Imafidon nor Emeagwali or Oyibo holds position in any MDA in Nigeria. Are we not leaving substances and chasing shadows by questioning their academic worth when we should be questioning the genuineness of the academic qualifications of those elected/selected/appointed/employed in the MDAs of Nigeria producing backward economic and industrial developments for the country? 

Michael O. Afolayan joined the debate on Thursday, 21 December 2017, and part of his post read, "I also agree with Moses, the self-hate that characterizes our unquenchable appetite for anything foreign has become the tether that ties us to the post of inferiority, imbuing other people's junks and rejecting our own valuables. ....//.... Had Chris Imafidon made the mistake of claiming to be a graduate of a Nigerian University, he would have become a laughing stock from Day One of his jolly ride."  

In the Nigerian context, unquenchable appetite for anything foreign implies everything from the white man. Dr. Afolayan, like all educated Nigerians, is sitting on a stem of a tree planted by the White man. If he thinks the tree does not serve the interest of Nigeria, he cannot sit tight on the stem of the White man's tree and at the same time pretend cutting it down. The wisest thing to do is to climb down from the neo-colonial White man's tree and uproot it since it does not serve the interest of Nigerians. He cannot pretend to having no appetite for the White man's neo-colonial tree while at the same time sitting comfortably on its stem. The language of governance in Nigeria, English, is white man's and foreign. Over 98% of Nigerians cannot read, write or speak English properly. Our Universities are modelled after English and American systems which are foreign. If the Convocation Lecture at the University of Ilorin had been delivered by a Nigerian-based Professor instead of the supposedly Oxford-based Professor, it would not have turned the delivered Lecture into indigenous one, as Dr. Michael Afolayan seemed to suggest. This is because the institution is foreign and the language of expression at the Lecture, English, is white. The truth which Western educated Nigerians never want to admit is that the political, educational, economic and judicial systems in Nigeria are subordinate to the U.S. and European Union. Despite that a national flag and a national anthem was conceded to Nigeria in 1960, we are still controlled by the white world. How is that possible?

When Nigeria was granted self-administered enslavement, the rank  of leaders of our government was that of slave overseers. Of course, when white men departed Nigeria, Western educated Nigerians took over their jobs, inherited their rates of pay and their privileges, played their roles and assumed their attitudes towards ordinary Nigerians. Chinua Achebe narrated what happened when British left government ministries, public and privately held firms, corporations, organizations, and schools in Nigeria after October 1, 1960. He wrote, "... a number of internal jobs, especially the senior management positions, began to open up for Nigerians, particularly for those with a university education. It was into these positions vacated by the British that a number of people like myself were placed. ...//... This bequest was much greater than just stepping into jobs left behind by the British. Members of my generation also moved into homes in the former British quarters previously occupied by members of the European senior civil servant. These homes often came with servants - chauffeurs, maids, cooks, gardeners, stewards - whom the British had organized meticulously to ease their colonial sojourn. Now following the departure of the Europeans, many domestic staff stayed in the same positions and were only too grateful to continue their designated salaried roles in post-independence Nigeria. Their masters were no longer European but their brothers and sisters." (p. 48-9, There Was a Country).
What Chinua Achebe failed to note is that Nigerians who stepped into the jobbs left by the British in Nigeria were serving the interest of the British people in the same manner as the departed British officials. The Yoruba people who observed the life-styles of the new Nigerian officials that replaced the British, euphemistically referred to them as, ÒYÌNBÓ ALÁWÒ DÚDÚ meaning WHITE MAN WITH BLACK SKIN. Right from the beginning, acquisition of Western education was introduced to Nigerians as means of enjoying white man's standard of living without labour because the concept of work, as we were indoctrinated, is associated with suffering, punishment and unsuccessful life. Initially, the MDAs could absorb all educated Nigerians into the bureaucracy which soon became congested as more Nigerians acquired white man's education in order to escape working for their livings. Consequently, ethnicity and religion became tools of competition to gain admission into the club of White man with black skin. The throat-cutting competitions for position in offices led to the insertion of 'Federal Character' into the Constitution of Nigeria which guaranteed appointment or employment to individuals regardless of competence and ability to perform in office. Thus, when the white world typecast the Blacks in general as unintelligent and inferior to the whites, it is not because of the colour of the skin alone, as Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray had indicated in their book, THE BELL CURVE, but because the Black man has refused to be the master of his environment and manager of his endowed natural resources of which Nigerians are typical example. The tether that ties us to the post of inferiority is, therefore, not our appetite for anything foreign, as Dr. Michael Afolayan stated, but our ignorant belief that Western Europeans that carted us to America and West Indies as slaves and later partitioned Africa into their colonies at the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885, had set us free and the colonisers are now treating us as their equals. The reason why we were colonised as it was historically recorded was never philanthropic.

Supporting Italy's invasion of Abyssinia (now Ethiopia) in 1935, Sir Arthur Willert wrote, "Italy must expand. She came late into the world as a Great Power and found that the good parts of the earth had already been apportioned between luckier countries. She cannot with her rapidly growing population, now in the neighbourhood of 45, 000, 000 (45 million) remain forever cooped up in her peninsula with its large tracts of barren mountains and its lack of essential raw materials (p. 206, The Frontiers of England by Sir Arthur Willert)." And where was Italy going to get raw materials and food to feed her rapidly growing population? Sir Arthur Willert answered that question on page 211 of his book thus, "Italy, in going for the Abyssinians (Ethiopians), is fighting on behalf of Europe. Europe is losing Asia; the Western Hemisphere is full up. So, of the great spaces of the world from which a short time ago her countries (European countries) could draw cheap supplies of food and raw material, only Africa remains. If Europe loses this last reservoir, it is done, it will shrink to nothing. Hence the Africans must be kept down."
Wailing over lack of food and raw material in the German Reichstag (Parliament), on 20 February 1938, Chancellor Adolf Hitler said among other things, "Our economic position is a difficult one, not because National-Socialism is at the helm, because 140 people must live on a square kilometre; because we are not in possession of those great, natural resources enjoyed by other people; because, above all we have a scarcity of fertile soil. If Great Britain should suddenly dissolve today and England become dependent solely on her own territory, then the people there would perhaps have more understanding of the seriousness of economic tasks which confront us (p.63, note 1, PEACE WITH THE DICTATORS By Sir Norman Angell)." Continuing on page 64, Adolf complained about the impossibility of feeding 140 people to a square kilometre without colonial rounding-off. Therefore, he concluded, "No matter what we may achieve by increasing the German production, all this cannot remove the impossible nature of the space allotted to Germany. The claim for German colonial possessions will, therefore, be voiced from year to year with increasing vigour, possessions which Germany did not take away from other countries ........ but appear indispensable for our own people." German colonial possessions which Hitler intended claiming with vigour so as to provide food and raw materials for the hungry Germans were South West Africa (now Namibia), Tanganyika (now Tanzania) Cameroon and Togo seized from Germany as a result of World War I. The total landmass area of those countries together is 2, 298,731square kilometres, compared to Germany with a landmass area of 357,041 square kilometres. Germany's natural resources barren and unfertile soil remain the same till date just as it is with Italy, France, Belgium, Britain, Spain, Portugal and other Western European countries. That was why Africa was colonised and the reason for colonialization of Africa remains the same although colonialization is self-administered nowadays by African indigenes as we have in Nigeria. The self-administered colonialism makes it  possible for Nigeria to export crude oil to Italy, Germany and other countries in Europe where it is refined into various products for their citizens to consume, whereas Nigerians must sleep at fuel stations to buy petrol. The dysfunctional Nigeria's crude oil refineries are not manned by Imafidon, Opeyemi, Emeagwali or Oyibo but by qualified academic degree holders both from home and foreign Universities. If the academic degrees of managers of Nigeria's oil refineries are not fake, why are the crude oil refineries in permanent coma?

Professor Moses Ochonu's article titled, On Chris Imafidon, Oxford and Government Graft, did not receive so much comments as Professor Farooq Kperogi's, Remember Enoch Opeyemi who claimed to have solved the Riemann Hypothesis. In his reaction to the said article, Victor Okafor addressed two questions to Professor Kperogi, (1) Have you taken any step to find out from the Clay Mathematics Institute why and how it determined that Dr. Enoch Opeyemi's claim was false, inadequate or inaccurate? (2) What are the specific steps by which that institute arrived at its judgment, if any, that Dr, Opeyemi was merely fantasizing? These reasonable questions deserved answers in view of the claim by Professor Farooq Kperogi that after two years, he checked Clay Mathematics Institute, and the Riemann Hypothesis that Opeyemi claimed to have solved two years ago is still listed as unsolved. Surprisingly, Professor Farooq Kperogi completely ignored the intelligent questions raised by Victor Okafor. Instead, he resorted to childish display of unimportant knowledge with minute observance of petty rules and details of grammatical blunders committed by a commentator who, however, supported his views on Opeyemi. Sometimes, we write in haste and hurriedly post comments without reading to check for possible mistakes. Normal intellectuals, not braggadocios, always ignore such mistakes as long as they do not distort the sense in the conveyed message. Dr. Enoch Opeyemi, a mathematics lecturer at the Federal University of Oye-Ekiti, Nigeria, submitted papers to the US-based Clay Mathematics Institute claiming that he had solved the 156-year-old Riemann Hypothesis. After receiving Opeyemi's papers, Clay Mathematics Institute is obliged to publicly reject or accept his solution as contained in the submitted papers. Silence by the US-based Clay Mathematics Institute can only imply that Dr. Enoch Opeyemi actually solved the Riemann Hypothesis but the all white- dominated jury of the Institute are unwilling to accord recognition to the black man, Dr. Opeyemi, for solving the mathematical hypothesis in question. Dr. Opeyemi did not submit his papers to a PhD student for evaluation and decision but to Clay Mathematics Institute. The tragedy here, therefore, is not that a Ku Klux Klan PhD student is allowed to determine the veracity of Dr. Opeyemi's papers, as Professor Kperogi jubilantly stated, but his inability to see the racist and despiteful attitude of the authorities at the US-based Clay Mathematics Institute to Dr. Opeyemi who kept silent, over his professed solution to the Riemann Hypothesis, whether right or wrong. In the fields of Mathematics, Science and Technology, a white man will never accord a black man due honour for any new invention or discovery. The usual thing is for the white man to accept the black man's papers and make it his own. At best, the name of the black man may appear at the rear of the paper and introduced as a collaborator. Appropriation of others inventions or discoveries  is not uncommon even between whites as the discovery of the AIDS virus in the 1980s proved. For the sake of the unsuspecting, let me recall that incident.

Dr. Robert Gallo of the US National Cancer Institute would have succeeded in appropriating to himself the discovery of the AIDS virus, if Dr. Luc Montagnier of the French Pasteur Institute, Paris, had been a black man or a Nigerian as Dr. Enoch Opeyemi. It was so that Dr. Luc Montagnier and colleagues at Pasteur Institute had succeeded in isolating a virus from the Lymph node of a homosexual patient in 1983 and had their result published in the Journal, Science of 20 May 1983. They named the isolated virus, Lymphadenopathy- Associated Virus (LAV). However, Dr. Robert Gallo claimed that LAV was a family member of his own virus named Human T-cell Leukaemia Virus-1 (HTLV-I). Montagnier disagreed and sent an isolate of LAV  to Dr. Gallo on 23 September 1983, to help establish that LAV was not related to HTLV-I but a distinct virus. Pasteur Institute filed for a British and a US patent for blood test in September and December 1983, respectively. Suddenly, on 23 April 1984, Dr. Gallo appeared at a press conference in the company of the US Secretary of Health and Human Services, Margaret Heckler where the latter announced that American Scientists (Gallo and his Team) had discovered probable cause of AIDS. On the same day, the American government filed for AIDS testing kits patent.  Gallo's AIDS virus discovery was published in the Science of 4 May 1984 with the photographs of the new virus, named Human T-cell Leukaemia Virus -Three (HTLV-III). It was subsequently discovered that Gallo's HTLV-III AIDS virus was identical to LAV isolate which Montagnier had sent to him on 23 September 1983. On 28 May 1985 the US Patent and Trademark Office awarded Gallo a patent on blood test kits but remained silent on Montagnier's application that preceded that of Gallo by nine months. Therefore, the Pasteur Institute filed a lawsuit at a US federal high court accusing National Cancer Institute of theft of the virus, LAV. In view of the political and commercial potentials of AIDS disease, President Ronald Regan of the US and President Jacques Chirac of France met in 1987 and agreed to out of court settlement, whereby Dr. Gallo was designated co-discoverer of the AIDS virus with Dr. Montagnier and royalties on blood test were to be shared equally between the warring AIDS combatants. A new name, Human Immunodeficiency Virus with the acronym, HIV, replaced LAV and HTLV-III. (see AIDS: THE HIV MYTH BY JAD ADAMS as well as AND THE BAND PLAYED ON BY RANDY SHILTS). Who actually discovered what today is known as HIV was finally settled in 2008 when the Nobel Price for the discovery was awarded to Dr. Luc Montagnier and his French colleague, Dr Francoise Barré-Sinoussi. The Nobel Price Committee explained that HIV was discovered in 1983 and not 1984!! If conflict could occur between a white French and a white American over who discovered HIV, I leave the rest to the imagination of readers to guess what could have happened when a black Nigerian, Dr. Enoch Opeyemi, submitted his papers on the solution of Riemann Hypothesis to the white American owned Clay Mathematics Institute.

Finally, I am not holding brief for Dr. Enoch Opeyemi or any of those accused of fake or fraudulent academic claims. Since Western education has not contributed to the growth of economy in Nigeria industrially through advances in medicine, science and technology, should it not be admitted that all Nigerian officials with academic qualifications that have failed the country are also fake or fraudulent academics? In the Nigeria Handbook of 1970, it was stated that mineral resources of the country consist of Limestone, Petroleum Oil and Gas, Tin and Colum-bite, Iron Ore, Lead-Zinc, Gold, Marble, Stone, Zircon, Coal and Lignite. Nigeria has 74 million hectares of arable land and 2.5 million hectares of irrigation land. The rainforest in the South contains different species of Timber. In May 1970, THE NIGERIAN COUNCIL FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY was inaugurated by the Military Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon. Three of the objectives of the Nigerian Council for Science and Technology as stated on page one of its inaugural brochure were (a) to determine priorities for scientific activities in the Federation in relation to the economic and social policies of the country and its international commitments, (c) to ensure theapplication of the results of scientific activitiesto the development of agriculture, industry and social welfare in the Federation, (d) to ensure co-operation and co-ordination between the various agencies involved in the machinery for making the national science policy. Further on page 2, it is stated that the functions of the Council shall, among others, be (a) to consider and advise generally on all scientific activities, including (i)the application of the results of research, (ii) the transfer of technology into agriculture and industry. The thirty-five members of the Council consisted of eleven Federal Permanent Secretaries from Ministries of, Agriculture and Natural Resources, Communications, Economic Development and Reconstruction, Education, Finance, Health, Industries, Mines and Power, Trade, and Transport. Each of the then twelve states was represented by a person with, at least, an academic degree of B.Sc. while twelve representatives of science disciplines in Agricultural, Experimental, Industrial, Medical, Environmental and Social Sciences were also members. In his inaugural address to members, Major-General Yakubu Gowon said, "Nigeria is endowed with immense natural resources, which, if properly developed through the application of science and technology, would ensure for the present and future generations (of Nigeria) a bright economic future." Almost forty-eight years after the inauguration of the Nigerian Council For Science And Technology, Nigeria's herdsmen still traverse several hundred kilometres within the country to graze their cattle, a burden which some professors regard as herdsmen's fundamental human right worth defending. Our Agricultural system is still sustained by farmers primitively equipped with cutlasses and hoes. Crude oil we cannot refine; potable water we cannot pump; electricity we cannot generate and distribute; iron ore we cannot mine and work into steel; and our hospitals have been reduced to morgues while our leaders and officials run to the white man, from whom they claimed we have been liberated, to receive treatments. All Ministries, Departments and Agencies created to produce goods and services are manned by Nigerians whose academic degrees have certified them as capable of producing what are required from their respective office. Their failures in office can only mean that their academic degrees are fake and that is why Nigeria is poor and underdeveloped. While our Nigerian English Language Fundamentalists are blowing their grammars, the Dutch speaking Julius Berger is building Houses and Bridges and constructing roads for Nigeria, just as not so good English speaking Chinese are laying rail tracks for Nigeria.  In fact there is need to write a book titled: HOW EDUCATED NIGERIANS ARE UNDERDEVELOPING NIGERIA AND IMPOVERISHING HER CITIZENS. 
S. Kadiri

   



 
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                                                    Paradoxical Homelessness from Cambridge to Lagos

                                      
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Cambridge, CRASSH Research and the Concept of an Academic Centre


                                                                              Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju

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                                                              Comparative Cognitive Processes and Systems
                                             "Exploring Every Corner of the Cosmos in Search of Knowledge"
                                

​The Wonder Behind the Glass : CRASSH in Action

A group of people seated convivially at a table where light food is visible as they  chat. The atmosphere is earnest but relaxed.​ A sense of order is projected by their physical positioning within a carefully organized space in which a fairly large shelf full of books suggests a scholarly environment. Their neat clothes and body language demonstrate a self conscious discipline. The ambience of the building and the larger space within which it is located amplify the associations of their quietly intense activity as it proceeds against the background of the orderly and varied movement of people on foot outside the sheet of glass through which you are looking,  no sound penetrating beyond that sheet.  A sense of high civilization is projected by the scene beyond the glass,  an expression of the distinctive sapiental essence that the human being contributes to life on earth, the capacity for reflection, for speech, the orientation towards dialogue through which human reflexivity, the critical engagement with one's processes of awareness, is reinforced through oscillation between the individual mind and other minds operating, to some degree, at a wavelength that facilitates such intercourse.

​The elegant people behind the sheet of glass may be  participants in the weekly CRASSH [ Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities ] Fellows Work in Progress Seminar Series at the University of Cambridge, that room being used for that purpose, among others.  The person looking through that sheet of glass, myself, was a then homeless immigrant who had come to England to study, had expended tens of thousands of pounds in the process, a small fortune anywhere in the world, but, as was gradually dawning on him, with the aid of that scene across the window and what it represented about other contexts across the university, was entering into an experience beyond his anticipation, and which, without the expenditure of more money for fees at the astronomical rates foreign students were charged relative to home students, was entering into the climatic point of his journey in this land across the seas, six hours by flight and across various immigration protocols from his native Nigeria.

I had become homeless partly because I had opened a research centre in the nearby village of Histon,  using my own library, but had not been able to sustain the rent, not having a significant plan for that in the first place, operating on the intoxicating fumes of a vision I had nurtured for more than a decade and even partially achieved while in Nigeria, the execution of this dream in England leading to an economic vacuum in which I could not pay for  the office where the centre was located or a place to live. I became a person for whom the open sky was his roof and the four directions of space his home.

Paradoxically, I was at last positioned to grasp the implications of my choice of living in Cambridge on account of my admiration for the  magnificent physical spaces of its university as expressing a great ancient heritage, but a choice I did not know how to maximize until I was forced out of  my comfort zone through the unintended consequences of my own actions.

Reverberations from my earlier daily practice of the Hindu Sri Devi Khadgamala Stotram ritual in hour of the Goddess Tripurausundari, embodiment of the fire of passion that enflames erotic forces from sex to the hunger for knowledge, in my yearning to move beyond what I understood as the then stagnant state of my life. I did move, but in a manner both painful and liberating, disruptive and ultimately reconstitutive in a manner unanticipated, its recastings still ongoing even now, the ultimate destination unanticipatable  in its fullness. Next time, I shall approach Tripurasundari with more care, recognising the need to limit disruption as growth occurs, as far as that is valid in a human beings efforts to relate with a cosmic identity, if such do exist beyond our faith and can truly shape our lives.

CRASSH  is a fantastic research centre in a great university, Cambridge.Certain things are almost beyond linguistic powers of description and assessment. Cambridge university and CRASSH are among those things. I am overwhelmed by emotion in trying to describe my experience of those institutions.

For me, Cambridge is a version of heaven.

I hope to experience other academic centres, along with those I have already lived in in Nigeria and England, and compare them with the wonder that is Cambridge.

What is an academic centre?

An academic centre is a  community  significantly developed for the cultivation of scholarly knowledge in relation to an institution or institutions devoted to that task.

The entire City of Cambridge has been mobilized in the development of an academic centre. This mobilizations consists of a conurbation of bookshops, libraries, public lectures and museums, at the centre of which are the awesome resources and the constant buzz of the  extremely busy academic life of the University of Cambridge, a significant number of which enablements are accessible to the public who have no affiliation with the university except the fact of living in Cambridge.

It was when I was homeless in Cambridge that I experienced the splendour of that city for the first time in years of living there. Being homeless in that city in the absolute sense of having no roof over my head, nowhere of my own to sleep, sleeping on park benches which one had to compete for with other homeless people, on restaurant chairs after closing hours, in churches in the name of praying, in the gym in the name of meditating in a quiet corner, having only occasional  money for food, transport or clothes and being limited in computer use to public computers in libraries and the homeless  people's home, Jimmy's,  that proved a lifeline one Christmas and New Year by providing shelter, food, clothes, companionship and computer services for the weeks I stayed there, turned out to be one of the richest experiences of my life
​ and the climax of my educational journey in England consisting of years of postgraduate education in two universities  and self directed research​
​ fulfilling dreams I had long nurtured but had not been able to achieve, as well as a particularly strategic point in my total educational experience of which my entire life's journey is the most expansive expression.

My circumstances freed me from self imposed chaining to my own computer, self created imprisonment in my large library covering sophisticated texts in various disciplines, liberated me from confinement to the vast yet limiting spaces of the World Wide Web accessed through 24/7 computer access in the comfort of my own home and office.

Like a person who had long realized he needed to drink water daily but had never had the experience, could sense the presence of water like an animal in a desert but had not been able to access an adequate flow,
​ I had at last stumbled on ​
an opportunity that now meant I could drink adequate water daily for the first time in my lif​e
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​For the first time I was encountering the institutional enablement for a
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educational ideal I am
​still struggling to grasp- the ability to access significantly the culture of learning represented by the mainstream educational system while operating outside its  institutional structuration, freeing one to experiment with cognitive and even  scholarly strategies and imperatives  beyond the character of the mainstream  system.​
 Universities seem to be increasingly placing material for their courses online and providing free films and podcasts of lectures but none of these can replace the living human presence.

Having been compelled to keep all my belongings in storage, I now had the paradoxical freedom of exploring Cambridge as a matrix of survival and learning, having gained freedom from  responsibilities  of living a settled life that reinforced my disinclination to interact significantly with other people or operate significantly outside my domestic comfort zone, ensconced in the artificial universe composed of walls laced with symbols of various systems of thought and thick with books calling to vistas waiting to be explored, like Isaac Newton's ocean of truth that lay all undiscovered before him, as he, a child in the face of  the immensity of knowledge represented by the vast ocean,  collected pebbles on the seashore, as the natural philosopher and father of modern science described himself.

If a homeless, little monied  person, an illegal immigrant  who needed to be wary of being deported if his status was discovered by the ubiquitous police force in a political culture working hard against illegal immigration, a person who through a strategic mistake had slipped through the cracks of legality into the shadow world of those who walk cautiously in daylight in recognition of their fundamental difference from others whose presence is approved by law, a person without any affiliation with any institution, not a student of its famous university-Cambridge, of its other university-Anglia Ruskin or of the numerous English language and university preparatory schools soaking up immigrants desperate to immerse themselves in the city's rich cultural  universe, a person who was not working in any formal capacity and had no consistent income, a person on the margins of society, a person largely invisible to the country's regulatory authorities, a person  thus without access to most of the country's rich medical, housing and unemployment and other social services,  could not only survive for months  in Cambridge by legally utilizing the resources of the city and thrive intellectually and spiritually through access to its mind blowing academic culture and its sublime spiritual universe embodied by its great churches and chapels and their quietly vigorous life, then clearly such an environment, in various ways,  represents a high level of civilization in spite of the  problematic immigration policies of the country in which that environment is embedded. A place where human dignity is highly empowered, where  access to humanity's distillation of the meaning of existence represented by the culture of learning, worship and wonder  is wonderfully developed.

I am writing this  in a six room two storey house of  three expansive living rooms and a large dining room in Ikeja, Lagos, the commercial capital of Nigeria. Every room has an air conditioner . The room I eventually rented in Cambridge after the period of homelessness I described is perhaps a little bigger than the hut in a small corner of the garden of this house. Three of the rooms in th
​is​
house can engulf that Cambridge room three or four times. Everywhere I go I am chauffeur driven. Around this house in Ikeja are other massive houses, a good number of them even bigger than this one. Not far from here, one palatial home has a small hotel in its premises and a garden so rich it could count as a national asset.

I find myself, however, comparing these Ikeja palaces with my little Cambridge room in terms of their relative value. There is no public library within any near distance to the Ikeja house. The only libraries I have seen in my journeys in Lagos  mainland and  island are few, widely dispersed. No booksellers within walking or even motorable  range of my Ikeja house. Most booksellers I have seen so far in Lagos sell mainly basic Pentecostal Christian literature, some self help books and books by some Nigerian public figures although I am told there is a rich bookshop in Victoria Island called Lantana  and the inestimable Jazz Hole, music and bookstore and its sister Glendora bookshop are still operating
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I expect. To see museums one has to travel to Victoria Island. We have a large generator for the frequent gaps in electricity supply from the national grid. I am informed that possession of such a generator is a mark of affluence, a status symbol, but I am appalled at the time, effort and money required to keep it fueled and the noise it makes along with other generators in the estate.

The Ikeja
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all demonstrates the rich goods and elegant order of Cambridge's Lion Yard but the Lion Yard has a powerful public, freely accessible library that gives meaning, for me, to the entire location, a feature absent at the Ikeja mall and its version of the much touted Shoprite, equivalent to a medium sized version of England's ubiquitous TESCO stores. What is the point of eating, of clothing, of electronic devices and of the engagement in all the paraphernalia of human life represented by shopping malls without the reflective facilitation enabled by  libraries? How does one make sense of the perplexities of life without a dialogue with the distilled knowledge demonstrated  by a culture of books of serious non-fiction and quality fiction and poetry?

Can digital books replace physical libraries? No. A three dimensional creature of the level of human sentience needs embodied environments for maximal learning. Virtual environments can at best complement those of the physical world.

None of these conditions is new to me. I was born in Nigeria, reached adulthood there, did a BA and postgraduate studies there  and  worked there as a university lecturer  before I traveled to England. In my earlier time in Nigeria, I was not as comfortable as l am now in Lagos. In a sense, though, I am still and yet not the same person who left Nigeria for England years ago. I am back in my ancestral country but in a sense I have become homeless again.  I am like a person who woke from bed to find he had  only been dreaming about Paradise, and was not really there, having only inhabited it for  a short time in a vivid dream. The way back to that other world is not readily gained, meanwhile the world he is now compelled to live in has lost most of its significance for him as a place of location.

What is the value of a luxurious house and a comfortable, privileged lifestyle in a place where is a weak library and weak bookselling culture,  little access to books to expand the mind, very few parks for relaxation, and widely dispersed at that,  no cultural centres such as museums unless the few accessible after traveling a long distance?

Is a smaller house in a place like Cambridge not ultimately more valuable for a person like myself than a mansion in Nigeria? Would going from place to place on foot or bicycle in Cambridge, or bus or train outside the city, not be more valuable than being chauffeur driven even in a luxury car in Nigeria? Except for the presence of family in Nigeria I am not able to see anything about the country in relation to myself that would make my being a wealthy person in Nigeria of equal value to living at an average material level in Cambridge.

Keywords evoking my Cambridge experience:

Academic community- a group of people working together in the pursuit of critically examined, organized knowledge

Knowledge rain- it falls daily, bathing you in the effervescence of various disciplines and forms of knowledge- ways of arriving at knowledge, from imagination to ratiocinative thought, adapted from Paul Hirst's " Liberal Education and the Forms of Knowledge" in his Knowledge and the Curriculum[ a book I bought from the impressive collection  St. Joseph's church bookshop, Benin-city before I travelled to England].

Mountaintop experience - like Moses' vision  on mount Sinai of a divine presence in the burning bush that identified Itself as 'I Am that I Am'  , only this time what emerges is the gradually coruscating convergence of cognitive possibilities consummated in the fire of mind.

'the maturation of phenomena is an outcome of a slow burning process... fire is essential for the changing of things from their raw inaccessible qualities to a ripe state of richness and healing [leading to ]  Ripeness (ukuvuthwa)...an outcome of slow burning characteristic of the cosmic process."- Mazisi Kunene, intro to his Anthem of the Decades.

an acme of the globally dominant Western educational system

intersections across the arts, humanities, social sciences and sciences

convergences of religious and non-religious thought and practice

academic holidays- visiting a place for the purpose of learning-Cambridge offers many  incentives for that at no extra cost beyond traveling to and living in Cambridge



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Dear sir:

What an amazing essay. This is a must read. Too rich in experience and knowledge.

I must confess I heard about your homelessness in Cambridge. Someone even said the library had to do one or two things about you. Another person said I should talk to you to relocate back to Nigeria. I never did as I had not met you and I thought it was sheer arrogance for me to call and give that kind of advice.

 

What you have described with regard to Ikeja is true. I actually know the place where you are talking about as I occasional stay at Cest Moi (I am not sure I get this spelling right). The reason why I stay at Ikeja is that I can walk to do my morning exercise. I observed similar things.

 

To the theory: elite behavior. How we organize spaces and the values that drive them are connected to how the leading elite in a community think, what they desire and what they aspire to. Unless you change that elite behavior the space itself won't change.

TF

 

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Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Paradoxical Homelessness from Cambridge to Lagos : Cambridge, CRASSH Research and the Concept of an Academic Centre

 

 

 

 

                                                                         

 

                                                    Paradoxical Homelessness from Cambridge to Lagos

 

                                      

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Cambridge, CRASSH Research and the Concept of an Academic Centre

 

 

                                                                              Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju

 

                                                                                      Compcros

                                                              Comparative Cognitive Processes and Systems

                                             "Exploring Every Corner of the Cosmos in Search of Knowledge"

                                

 

​The Wonder Behind the Glass : CRASSH in Action

 

A group of people seated convivially at a table where light food is visible as they  chat. The atmosphere is earnest but relaxed.​ A sense of order is projected by their physical positioning within a carefully organized space in which a fairly large shelf full of books suggests a scholarly environment. Their neat clothes and body language demonstrate a self conscious discipline. The ambience of the building and the larger space within which it is located amplify the associations of their quietly intense activity as it proceeds against the background of the orderly and varied movement of people on foot outside the sheet of glass through which you are looking,  no sound penetrating beyond that sheet.  A sense of high civilization is projected by the scene beyond the glass,  an expression of the distinctive sapiental essence that the human being contributes to life on earth, the capacity for reflection, for speech, the orientation towards dialogue through which human reflexivity, the critical engagement with one's processes of awareness, is reinforced through oscillation between the individual mind and other minds operating, to some degree, at a wavelength that facilitates such intercourse.

 

​The elegant people behind the sheet of glass may be  participants in the weekly CRASSH [ Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities ] Fellows Work in Progress Seminar Series at the University of Cambridge, that room being used for that purpose, among others.  The person looking through that sheet of glass, myself, was a then homeless immigrant who had come to England to study, had expended tens of thousands of pounds in the process, a small fortune anywhere in the world, but, as was gradually dawning on him, with the aid of that scene across the window and what it represented about other contexts across the university, was entering into an experience beyond his anticipation, and which, without the expenditure of more money for fees at the astronomical rates foreign students were charged relative to home students, was entering into the climatic point of his journey in this land across the seas, six hours by flight and across various immigration protocols from his native Nigeria.

 

I had become homeless partly because I had opened a research centre in the nearby village of Histon,  using my own library, but had not been able to sustain the rent, not having a significant plan for that in the first place, operating on the intoxicating fumes of a vision I had nurtured for more than a decade and even partially achieved while in Nigeria, the execution of this dream in England leading to an economic vacuum in which I could not pay for  the office where the centre was located or a place to live. I became a person for whom the open sky was his roof and the four directions of space his home.

 

Paradoxically, I was at last positioned to grasp the implications of my choice of living in Cambridge on account of my admiration for the  magnificent physical spaces of its university as expressing a great ancient heritage, but a choice I did not know how to maximize until I was forced out of  my comfort zone through the unintended consequences of my own actions.

 

Reverberations from my earlier daily practice of the Hindu Sri Devi Khadgamala Stotram ritual in hour of the Goddess Tripurausundari, embodiment of the fire of passion that enflames erotic forces from sex to the hunger for knowledge, in my yearning to move beyond what I understood as the then stagnant state of my life. I did move, but in a manner both painful and liberating, disruptive and ultimately reconstitutive in a manner unanticipated, its recastings still ongoing even now, the ultimate destination unanticipatable  in its fullness. Next time, I shall approach Tripurasundari with more care, recognising the need to limit disruption as growth occurs, as far as that is valid in a human beings efforts to relate with a cosmic identity, if such do exist beyond our faith and can truly shape our lives.

 

CRASSH  is a fantastic research centre in a great university, Cambridge.Certain things are almost beyond linguistic powers of description and assessment. Cambridge university and CRASSH are among those things. I am overwhelmed by emotion in trying to describe my experience of those institutions.

 

For me, Cambridge is a version of heaven.

 

I hope to experience other academic centres, along with those I have already lived in in Nigeria and England, and compare them with the wonder that is Cambridge.

 

What is an academic centre?

 

An academic centre is a  community  significantly developed for the cultivation of scholarly knowledge in relation to an institution or institutions devoted to that task.

 

The entire City of Cambridge has been mobilized in the development of an academic centre. This mobilizations consists of a conurbation of bookshops, libraries, public lectures and museums, at the centre of which are the awesome resources and the constant buzz of the  extremely busy academic life of the University of Cambridge, a significant number of which enablements are accessible to the public who have no affiliation with the university except the fact of living in Cambridge.

 

It was when I was homeless in Cambridge that I experienced the splendour of that city for the first time in years of living there. Being homeless in that city in the absolute sense of having no roof over my head, nowhere of my own to sleep, sleeping on park benches which one had to compete for with other homeless people, on restaurant chairs after closing hours, in churches in the name of praying, in the gym in the name of meditating in a quiet corner, having only occasional  money for food, transport or clothes and being limited in computer use to public computers in libraries and the homeless  people's home, Jimmy's,  that proved a lifeline one Christmas and New Year by providing shelter, food, clothes, companionship and computer services for the weeks I stayed there, turned out to be one of the richest experiences of my life

​ and the climax of my educational journey in England consisting of years of postgraduate education in two universities  and self directed research​

​ fulfilling dreams I had long nurtured but had not been able to achieve, as well as a particularly strategic point in my total educational experience of which my entire life's journey is the most expansive expression.

 

My circumstances freed me from self imposed chaining to my own computer, self created imprisonment in my large library covering sophisticated texts in various disciplines, liberated me from confinement to the vast yet limiting spaces of the World Wide Web accessed through 24/7 computer access in the comfort of my own home and office.

 

Like a person who had long realized he needed to drink water daily but had never had the experience, could sense the presence of water like an animal in a desert but had not been able to access an adequate flow,

​ I had at last stumbled on ​

an opportunity that now meant I could drink adequate water daily for the first time in my lif​e

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​For the first time I was encountering the institutional enablement for a

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educational ideal I am

​still struggling to grasp- the ability to access significantly the culture of learning represented by the mainstream educational system while operating outside its  institutional structuration, freeing one to experiment with cognitive and even  scholarly strategies and imperatives  beyond the character of the mainstream  system.​

 Universities seem to be increasingly placing material for their courses online and providing free films and podcasts of lectures but none of these can replace the living human presence.

 

Having been compelled to keep all my belongings in storage, I now had the paradoxical freedom of exploring Cambridge as a matrix of survival and learning, having gained freedom from  responsibilities  of living a settled life that reinforced my disinclination to interact significantly with other people or operate significantly outside my domestic comfort zone, ensconced in the artificial universe composed of walls laced with symbols of various systems of thought and thick with books calling to vistas waiting to be explored, like Isaac Newton's ocean of truth that lay all undiscovered before him, as he, a child in the face of  the immensity of knowledge represented by the vast ocean,  collected pebbles on the seashore, as the natural philosopher and father of modern science described himself.

 

If a homeless, little monied  person, an illegal immigrant  who needed to be wary of being deported if his status was discovered by the ubiquitous police force in a political culture working hard against illegal immigration, a person who through a strategic mistake had slipped through the cracks of legality into the shadow world of those who walk cautiously in daylight in recognition of their fundamental difference from others whose presence is approved by law, a person without any affiliation with any institution, not a student of its famous university-Cambridge, of its other university-Anglia Ruskin or of the numerous English language and university preparatory schools soaking up immigrants desperate to immerse themselves in the city's rich cultural  universe, a person who was not working in any formal capacity and had no consistent income, a person on the margins of society, a person largely invisible to the country's regulatory authorities, a person  thus without access to most of the country's rich medical, housing and unemployment and other social services,  could not only survive for months  in Cambridge by legally utilizing the resources of the city and thrive intellectually and spiritually through access to its mind blowing academic culture and its sublime spiritual universe embodied by its great churches and chapels and their quietly vigorous life, then clearly such an environment, in various ways,  represents a high level of civilization in spite of the  problematic immigration policies of the country in which that environment is embedded. A place where human dignity is highly empowered, where  access to humanity's distillation of the meaning of existence represented by the culture of learning, worship and wonder  is wonderfully developed.

 

I am writing this  in a six room two storey house of  three expansive living rooms and a large dining room in Ikeja, Lagos, the commercial capital of Nigeria. Every room has an air conditioner . The room I eventually rented in Cambridge after the period of homelessness I described is perhaps a little bigger than the hut in a small corner of the garden of this house. Three of the rooms in th

​is​

house can engulf that Cambridge room three or four times. Everywhere I go I am chauffeur driven. Around this house in Ikeja are other massive houses, a good number of them even bigger than this one. Not far from here, one palatial home has a small hotel in its premises and a garden so rich it could count as a national asset.

 

I find myself, however, comparing these Ikeja palaces with my little Cambridge room in terms of their relative value. There is no public library within any near distance to the Ikeja house. The only libraries I have seen in my journeys in Lagos  mainland and  island are few, widely dispersed. No booksellers within walking or even motorable  range of my Ikeja house. Most booksellers I have seen so far in Lagos sell mainly basic Pentecostal Christian literature, some self help books and books by some Nigerian public figures although I am told there is a rich bookshop in Victoria Island called Lantana  and the inestimable Jazz Hole, music and bookstore and its sister Glendora bookshop are still operating

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I expect. To see museums one has to travel to Victoria Island. We have a large generator for the frequent gaps in electricity supply from the national grid. I am informed that possession of such a generator is a mark of affluence, a status symbol, but I am appalled at the time, effort and money required to keep it fueled and the noise it makes along with other generators in the estate.

 

The Ikeja

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ity

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all demonstrates the rich goods and elegant order of Cambridge's Lion Yard but the Lion Yard has a powerful public, freely accessible library that gives meaning, for me, to the entire location, a feature absent at the Ikeja mall and its version of the much touted Shoprite, equivalent to a medium sized version of England's ubiquitous TESCO stores. What is the point of eating, of clothing, of electronic devices and of the engagement in all the paraphernalia of human life represented by shopping malls without the reflective facilitation enabled by  libraries? How does one make sense of the perplexities of life without a dialogue with the distilled knowledge demonstrated  by a culture of books of serious non-fiction and quality fiction and poetry?

 

Can digital books replace physical libraries? No. A three dimensional creature of the level of human sentience needs embodied environments for maximal learning. Virtual environments can at best complement those of the physical world.

 

None of these conditions is new to me. I was born in Nigeria, reached adulthood there, did a BA and postgraduate studies there  and  worked there as a university lecturer  before I traveled to England. In my earlier time in Nigeria, I was not as comfortable as l am now in Lagos. In a sense, though, I am still and yet not the same person who left Nigeria for England years ago. I am back in my ancestral country but in a sense I have become homeless again.  I am like a person who woke from bed to find he had  only been dreaming about Paradise, and was not really there, having only inhabited it for  a short time in a vivid dream. The way back to that other world is not readily gained, meanwhile the world he is now compelled to live in has lost most of its significance for him as a place of location.

 

What is the value of a luxurious house and a comfortable, privileged lifestyle in a place where is a weak library and weak bookselling culture,  little access to books to expand the mind, very few parks for relaxation, and widely dispersed at that,  no cultural centres such as museums unless the few accessible after traveling a long distance?

 

Is a smaller house in a place like Cambridge not ultimately more valuable for a person like myself than a mansion in Nigeria? Would going from place to place on foot or bicycle in Cambridge, or bus or train outside the city, not be more valuable than being chauffeur driven even in a luxury car in Nigeria? Except for the presence of family in Nigeria I am not able to see anything about the country in relation to myself that would make my being a wealthy person in Nigeria of equal value to living at an average material level in Cambridge.

 

Keywords evoking my Cambridge experience:

 

Academic community- a group of people working together in the pursuit of critically examined, organized knowledge

 

Knowledge rain- it falls daily, bathing you in the effervescence of various disciplines and forms of knowledge- ways of arriving at knowledge, from imagination to ratiocinative thought, adapted from Paul Hirst's " Liberal Education and the Forms of Knowledge" in his Knowledge and the Curriculum[ a book I bought from the impressive collection  St. Joseph's church bookshop, Benin-city before I travelled to England].

 

Mountaintop experience - like Moses' vision  on mount Sinai of a divine presence in the burning bush that identified Itself as 'I Am that I Am'  , only this time what emerges is the gradually coruscating convergence of cognitive possibilities consummated in the fire of mind.

 

'the maturation of phenomena is an outcome of a slow burning process... fire is essential for the changing of things from their raw inaccessible qualities to a ripe state of richness and healing [leading to ]  Ripeness (ukuvuthwa)...an outcome of slow burning characteristic of the cosmic process."- Mazisi Kunene, intro to his Anthem of the Decades.

 

an acme of the globally dominant Western educational system

 

intersections across the arts, humanities, social sciences and sciences

 

convergences of religious and non-religious thought and practice

 

academic holidays- visiting a place for the purpose of learning-Cambridge offers many  incentives for that at no extra cost beyond traveling to and living in Cambridge

 

 

 

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I entirely align with your angst over Buhari's unwillingness to empathize with the people of Benue--and others who are visited by horrendous personal catastrophes. Incidentally, my column for tomorrow's Daily Trust addresses these concerns. Psychologists have found that there is something about power that deadens people's capacity for empathy.

 But it appears that news about Buhari flying his son to a German hospital isn't true. See the attached January 12, 2018 press release from Cedarcrest Hospitals where Yusuf was admitted to. Caveat: I have not independently verified the authenticity of the letter. It could very well be fake.

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If President Buhari can take his son to Germany for health treatment (no one's son should die, before anyone misinterprets me), I need to be educated why President Buhari cannot visit Benue State to empathize (lower than sympathize) with those who have lost their own sons and daughters.

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