African Indigenous Knowledges in a Postcolonial World: Essays in Honour of Toyin Falola

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This book argues that ancient and modern African indigenous knowledges remain key to Africa’s role in global capital, technological and knowledge development and to addressing her marginality and postcoloniality. The contributors engage the unresolved problematics of the historical and contemporary linkages between African knowledges and the African academy, and between African and global knowledges. The book relies on historical and comparative political analysis to explore the global context for the application of indigenous knowledges for tackling postcolonial challenges of knowledge production, conflict and migration, and women’s rights on the continent in transcontinental African contexts. Asserting the enduring potency of African indigenous knowledges for the transformation of policy, the African academy and the study of Africa in the global academy, this book will be of interest to scholars of African Studies, postcolonial studies and decolonisation and global affairs. Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents List of Tables List of Contributors Preface Acknowledgements 1 Introduction: Global Africa, Postcoloniality and Indigenous Knowledges Part I: African Knowledges in the African Academy 2 Sociology in Africa: Between Domestication and Indigenization 3 Rethinking the Neo-Liberal Agenda: Sokoto Caliphate Political Thought as Alternative 4 Women Academics and Historiography in the Nigerian University 5 Indigenous Strategies and Settings for Peace Education and Values Among the Yoruba Part II: Indigenous Conflict Resolution Systems 6 African Youths and Indigenous Approaches to Resolving Conflicts in Africa 7 Indigenous Knowledge System of Conflict Resolution in Africa: Sudanese Peace Processes, 1970–2011 8 Pre-Colonial Diplomacy in Igbo Land: Rationale, Means and Benefits Part III: Transnational Gender Policy and Women’s Rights 9 Transnational Funding for Women’s Rights Advocacy on Affirmative Action in Nigeria 10 Gender Inclusion and the Implementation of Fadama III in Abuja, Nigeria 11 Patriarchy, Feminism and the African Woman’s Quest for Happiness in Aidoo’s Changes and Emecheta’s the Joys of Motherhood 12 Indigenous Household Menu Production and Food Security: A Paradigm Shift Part IV: Media and Political Discourses 13 Beyond the Failing Justice System: The Emerging Confluence of Mob Justice and the Social Media in Nigeria 14 Of Discourse: Politics and the Nigerian Woman 15 Wisdom-Imbecility Manipulation: Theorizing Political Communication Trends in Northern Nigeria Part V: African and Global Migration Management 16 The Influx of Igbo Migrants and Intergroup Relations in Zaria, 1900–1965 17 Globalisation and African Migration to Libya 18 The Paradox of Regional Migration Management: The AU and EU Joint Africa Partnership Agreement Index