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Doing sociology in Africa: notes towards advancing the Akìwọwọ project.
- Source :
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Journal of Contemporary African Studies . Jul2021, Vol. 39 Issue 3, p364-383. 20p. - Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- In the closing decades of the last century, Professor Akínsolá Akìwowo, in a series of seminal papers, inaugurated what Jìmí Adésíná later dubbed 'the Akíwowo project'. This project involved (1) showing that there are resources in an African culture – Yorùbá – for doing sociology in ways that are as good as the dominant tradition to be found in Western sociology; and (2) offering some original ideas regarding some explanatory framework that could enable us to make sense of social phenomena. In this essay, I advance the Akìwọwọ project by showing how, despite previous criticisms, Akìwọwọ remains a keen identifier of theoretical possibilities lurking in his Yorùbá heritage for doing not only sociology, but also philosophy and other theories with African idioms. I show how those criticisms enhance the practice of sociology in Africa that will be a powerful presence in the discipline and in the world of ideas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 02589001
- Volume :
- 39
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Contemporary African Studies
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 151609487
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2020.1858227