Africa Knows Collective

Africa Knows

Science EN ↓ 29 episodes

Every other Monday, Africa Knows brings you conversations with African(ist) scholars, teachers, and thinkers who talk about their own work and the knowledge revolution taking shape all over the African continent. We are a collaborative platform, with co-hosts calling in from different locations - go to africa-knows.captivate.fm for more details. Nigeria, Kenya and Ghana are our first ports of call, but we aim to expand our reach over time. Interested in collaboration? Contact us at africaknowspodcast@gmail.com. Music: Wholesome by Kevin MacLeod https://bit.ly/3sscIwc

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Plangsat Dayil on Africanity and African feminism, COVAX, and the risk of editing out context 20.12.2021 1:06:17

Henry converses with Plangsat Dayil, Director at Centre for Gender and Women Studies and lecturer in political science, University of Jos. Dr. Dayil discusses the need for Africanity in research; issues around COVAX in Nigeria; cross-cultural comparisons of marriage and family relations; mentorship in academia, particularly for women; the unequal dynamics of knowledge validation; and African femin...

Samaila Suleiman on decolonisation and the communal politics of knowledge production 20.12.2021 48:06

Gaddafi talks with Samaila Suleiman, historian and Deputy Director of the Aminu Kano Center for Democratic Studies, Mambayya House , in Kano. They discuss Dr. Suleiman's own work; the communal politics of universities in Nigeria; the sentimentality of the decolonisation debate; the tangible North-South inequalities marking global academia; and the negotiability of Nigerian unity.

M. Sani Umar on Nigerian academia, scientism, and its alternatives 13.12.2021 1:24:52

Muhammad Sani Umar from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, joins David for this opening conversation. Professor Umar talks about his own life history; the tumultuous history of Nigerian academia, from colonialism through structural adjustment to today's growing influence of China; and the epistemological domination of scientism and some of its (African?) alternatives: symbolic, approximate, and relig...

Introduction: Why the Africa Knows conversations? 13.12.2021 1:46

In this short introduction, David explains why he started the Africa Knows conversations.