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1 - Possibilities of Afrikology

  • Sanya Osha
    Sanya Osha Institute for Economic Research in Innovation Tshawane University of Technology Pretoria/South Africa
    Sanya Osha holds a PhD in Philosophy and taught the discipline in Nigerian universities for a decade. He has published extensively on anthropology, cultural studies, knowledge systems of Africa, the politics of the West African region, and the sociopolitical and cultural...
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  • Sanya Osha, Institute for Economic Research in Innovation Tshawane University of Technology Pretoria/South Africa

    Sanya Osha holds a PhD in Philosophy and taught the discipline in Nigerian universities for a decade. He has published extensively on anthropology, cultural studies, knowledge systems of Africa, the politics of the West African region, and the sociopolitical and cultural realities of Southern Africa. He has undertaken extensive research on the discursive status of African systems of knowledge. He also spent a decade studying and teaching the sociological and political aspect of innovations studies. As an academic, he has held research positions at Smith College in the USA, the University of Groningen and the African Studies Centre in the Netherlands, and in South Africa at the Universities of Kwa-Zulu-Natal, University of South Africa, and the Africa Institute for South Africa (AISA). At HUMA, he works on various aspects of the "On Being Human" project and strengthening the publications arm and profile of the Institute.

References

  1. Dani W Nabudere, Afrikology, Philosophy and Wholeness: An Epistemology, Pretoria: Africa Institute of South Africa, 2011, p.10
  2. B. Tedlock cited by Dani W. Nabudere, 2011 p.43
  3. For more on shamanic practices visit http://shamanism.wordpress and http:// shamansdrum.org
  4. Dani W, Nabudere, 2011, p.45
  5. See for instance, Cheikh Anta Diop, The African Origin of Civilization. Mercer Cook trans. Connecticut: Lawrence Hill and Company. 1974.
  6. Kwasi Wiredu Philosophy and an African Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980; Kwasi Wiredu, Cultural Universals and Particulars: An African Perspective. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1996; Sanya Osha, ‘Kwasi Wiredu: Philosophy in the African Way’ (September-October) 2005; Sanya Osha, Kwasi Wiredu and Beyond: The Text, Writing and Thought in Africa, Dakar: CODESRIA, 2005.

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