Toyin Falola and African Epistemologies [Hardcover]

While there are five important festschriften on Toyin Falola and his work, this book fulfills the need for a single-authored volume that can be useful as a textbook. I develop clearly articulated rubrics and overarching concepts as the foundational basis for analyzing Falola's work.Preface Introduction 1 An Emerging Biography Part One: Africa in the Configurations of Knowledge 2 African-Centered Conceptualization 3 Pluralism and Religious Tolerance 4 Postulates on the African State 5 Axioms of African Migrations and Movements Part Two: The Yoruba in the Configurations of Knowledge 6 A Mouth Sweeter Than Salt: A Fractal Analysis 7 Yoruba Gurus and the Idea of Ubuntugogy 8 Pragmatic Linguistic Analysis of Isola Part Three: The Value of Knowledge: Policies and Politics 9 The Power of African Cultures: A Diegetic Analysis 10 African Peace Paradigms 11 Pan-African Notions 12 Using E-clustering to Learn and Teach about Toyin Falola Conclusion: An Interpretative Overview Appendix: Notation Conventions List of Works by Toyin Falola Notes Bibliography Index

'The legendary humility of Toyin Falola disguises the unfathomable depth of his knowledge. With seven books and several essays on him, the attempt to understand Falola has become both an industry and a religion an industry because the plethora of his original ideas demand interpretation and intervention; and a religion because of his uncommon talents, extraordinary complexity, and productivity. Can it be true that Falola is an orisa, a Yoruba god? Abdul Karim Bangura, a political scientist, development economist, linguist, computer scientist and mathematician, has shifted the focus on Falola away from history to science and metaphysics, thereby grounding him in an alternative epistemology and laying a critical foundation for yet another book on one of the most prolific and talented African scholars of our time.' - Bridget Teboh, University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, USA

'Abdul Karim Bangura, lCQ