Decolonizing African knowledge : autoethnography and African epistemologies /

Falola, Toyin,

Decolonizing African knowledge : autoethnography and African epistemologies / Toyin Falola. - pages cm. - African identities: past and present .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Prologue: My archive -- Autoethnography and epistemic liberation -- Narrative politics and cultural ideologies -- Memory, magic, myth, and metaphor -- A poetological narration of the nation -- A poetological narration of the self -- Satire and society -- Narrative politics and the politics of narrative -- Sculpture as archive -- Textiles as texts -- Canvas and archiving ethnic reality -- Hair art and the women agency -- Photography and ethnography -- Self, collective, and collection.

9781316511237

2021058071


Yoruba (African people)--Material culture.
Yoruba (African people)--Archives.
Yoruba (African people)--Historiography.
Material culture--Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Ethnology--Authorship.--Africa, Sub-Saharan
Decolonization--Africa, Sub-Saharan.


Africa, Sub-Saharan--Historiography.

DT515.45 FAL 2022

 

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