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Nyamnjoh: Drinking from the Cosmic Gourd
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How Amos Tutuola Can Change Our Minds
出版African Books Collective, 2023-01-10
主題Social Science / Ethnic Studies / GeneralSocial Science / Anthropology / Cultural & SocialLiterary Criticism / AfricanSocial Science / Sociology / General
ISBN99567644349789956764433
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=xAFHEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋This book questions colonial and apartheid ideologies on being human and being African, ideologies that continue to shape how research is conceptualised, taught and practiced in universities across Africa. Africans immersed in popular traditions of meaning-making are denied the right, by those who police the borders of knowledge, to think and represent their realities in accordance with the civilisations and universes they know best. Often, the ways of life they cherish are labelled and dismissed too eagerly as traditional knowledge by some of the very African intellectual elite they look to for protection. The book makes a case for sidestepped traditions of knowledge. It draws attention to Africaís possibilities, prospects and emergent capacities for being and becoming in tune with its creativity and imagination. It speaks to the nimble-footed flexible-minded ìfrontier Africanî at the crossroads and junctions of encounters, facilitating creative conversations and challenging regressive logics of exclusionary identities. The book uses Amos Tutuolaís stories to question dualistic assumptions about reality and scholarship, and to call for conviviality, interconnections and interdependence between competing knowledge traditions in Africa.