Articles · No. 1 (2022): CODESRIA Bulletin, No 1, 2022 · Pages 48-51

6 - ‘(Re)Centring African Epistemologies: An Intellectual Journey’

  • Oyeronke Oyewumi
    Oyeronke Oyewumi Department of Sociology Stony Brook UniversityUSA
    Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí (born November 10, 1957) is a Nigerian gender scholar and full professor of sociology at Stony Brook University. She acquired her bachelor's degree in political science  at the University of Ibadan in Ibadan, Nigeria and went on to pursue her graduate...
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The Acceptance Speech for the 2021 Distinguished Africanist Award

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African epistemologies intellectual

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  • Oyeronke Oyewumi, Department of Sociology Stony Brook UniversityUSA

    Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí (born November 10, 1957) is a Nigerian gender scholar and full professor of sociology at Stony Brook University. She acquired her bachelor's degree in political science at the University of Ibadan in Ibadan, Nigeria and went on to pursue her graduate degree in Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. Oyěwùmí is the winner of the African Studies Association's 2021 Distinguished Africanist Award, which recognizes and honours individuals who have contributed a lifetime of outstanding scholarship in African studies combined with service to the Africanist community.

    In her 1997 monograph, The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses, she offers a postcolonial feminist critique of Western dominance in African studies. The book won the American Sociological Association's 1998 Distinguished Book Award in the Gender and Sex category.

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