Who Owns the Problem? : Africa and the Struggle for Agency / Pius Adesanmi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adesanmi, Pius, author.

Contributor:

Harrow, Kenneth W., writer of foreword.

Falola, Toyin, writer of foreword.

Series:

African humanities and the arts.

African humanities and the arts

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature and society--Nigeria.

Literature and society.

Literature and society--Africa.

Nigeria--Intellectual life--21st century.

Nigeria.

Africa--Intellectual life--21st century.

Africa.

Nigeria--Social conditions--21st century.

Africa--Social conditions--21st century.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

East Lansing, Michigan : Michigan State University Press, [2020]

Summary:

"This book assembles lectures given by Pius Adesanmi that answer the questions: How may we conceptualize Africa in the driver's seat of her own destiny in the twenty-first century? How practically may her cultures become the foundation and driving force of her innovation, development, and growth in the age of the global knowledge economy? How may the Africanist disciplines in the humanities, the social sciences, and the natural sciences be revamped to rise up to these challenges through new imaginaries of intersectional reflection? His lecture delivery techniques combine with diction and borrowings from Nigerian popular culture to create a distinct African performative mode that ultimately becomes a form of resistance against Western ideals of knowledge transfer. Together, these short essays preserve the voice of an African writer lost too soon. Adesanmi urges his readers to commit themselves to Africa's cultural agency"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Foreword: More Than Just a Name / by Toyin Falola

Foreword / by Kenneth W. Harrow

Preface. Form as Resistance: The Story of This Book

#WhoOwnsTheProblem?

Culture, Development, and Other Annoyances

For Whom Is Africa Rising?

Africa Is People, Nigeria Is Nigerians: Provocations on Post-mendicant Economies

The Disappeared African Roots of Emma Watson's UN Feminism

The Africa Just Outside of Your Hilton Hotel Window

Capitalism and Memory: Of Golf Courses and Massage Parlors in Badagry, Nigeria

Ode to the Bottle-For Ken Harrow who Laughed

Aso Ebi on my Mind

Ara Eko, Ara Oke: Lagos, Culture, and the Rest of Us

A Race through Race in Missouri

Dowry: Managing Africa's Many Lovers

Caribbean Self, African Selfie

Face Me, I Book You: Writing Africa's Agency in the Age of the Netizen

What Does (Nigerian) Literature Secure?

Post-centenary Nigeria: New Literatures, New Leaders, New Nation

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-62895-392-6

1-60917-630-8

OCLC:

1128722910