Pathways to Alternative Epistemologies in Africa

<p>1 Introduction: Alternative Epistemologies and the Imperative of an Afrocentric Mythology.- Part I Theories and Methodologies.- 2 Between Particularism and Universalism: The Promise of Epistemic Contextualism in African Epistemology.- 3 The Quest for Africanizing Qualitative Inquiry: A Pathway to Methodological Innovation.- 4 The State and the State of Knowledge Production in African Universities: Rethinking Identity and Curricula.- 5 Afrocentricity, African Agency and Knowledge System.- Part II Epistemological Practices.- 6 Cultural Environmentalism in Ogunyemi’s Langbodo and Osofisan’s Many Colours Make The Thunder-King.- 7 Security, Local Community, and the Democratic Political Culture in Africa.- 8 The “African Prints”: Africa and Aesthetics in the Textile World.- 9 On the Search for Identity in African Architecture.- 10 Towards an Endogenous Interpretation of Polygamy and Gender Relations: A Critique of Lola Shoneyin’sThe Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives.- 11 Religion, Patriarchal Construction and Gender Complementarity in Nigeria.- 12 Yoruba Traditional Instrumental Ensemble and Indigenous Knowledge Systems.- 13 Knowledge Production and Pedagogy Among the Islamic Scholars in Kano: A Case-Study of Shaykh Tijani Usman Zangon Bare-Bari (1916–1970).</p>