Endangered African Knowledges and the Challenge of Modernity An Igbo Response

• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-1032705682
• ISBN-13: 978-1032705712
• ISBN-13: 978-1040011409
• Thông tin xuất bản: Taylor & Francis, 2024
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (229 p.)
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 461235
• Chủ đề: 1. Modernity; 2. Postcoloniality; 3. Postcolonial; 4. Decoloniality; 5. Decolonial; 6. Nigeria; 7. Indigenous Knowledges; 8. Indigeneity; 9. Race; 10. Africana Studies; 11. Epistemology; 12. Igbo; 13. Subaltern; 14. Transmodernity; 15. Identities; 16. thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFA Philosophy of language; 17. thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBH Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000::DSBH5 Literary studies: postcolonial literature; 18. thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTM Regional / International studies; 19. thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTP Development studies

Tóm tắt

This book presents an innovative African philosophical response to coloniality and the attendant epistemicide of Africa's knowledge systems, drawing on Igbo thinking. This book argues that theorizing modernity requires a critical conversation between African and Western scholarship, in order to unpack its links with coloniality and the subjugation of Africa's indigenous knowledges. In setting out this discussion, the book also connects with Latin American scholarship, demonstrating how the modern world is structured to marginalize and destroy knowledges from across the Global South. This book draws on Igbo epistemic resources of solidarity thinking, positioned in contrast to capitalist knowledge-patterns, thereby providing an important Africa-driven response to modernity and coloniality. This book concludes by arguing that the Igbo sense of solidarity is useful and relevant to modern contexts and thus constitutes a vital resource for a less disruptive, more balanced, and more wholesome modernity. At a time of considerable global crises, this book makes an important contribution to philosophy both within Africa and beyond.