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Summary:

"This book assembles lectures given by Pius Adesanmi that answer the questions: How may we conceptualize Africa in the driver's seat of her own destiny in the twenty-first century? How practically may her cultures become the foundation and driving force of her innovation, development, and growth in the age of the global knowledge economy? How may the Africanist disciplines in the humanities, the social sciences, and the natural sciences be revamped to rise up to these challenges through new imaginaries of intersectional reflection? His lecture delivery techniques combine with diction and borrowings from Nigerian popular culture to create a distinct African performative mode that ultimately becomes a form of resistance against Western ideals of knowledge transfer. Together, these short essays preserve the voice of an African writer lost too soon. Adesanmi urges his readers to commit themselves to Africa's cultural agency"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Foreword: More Than Just a Name / by Toyin Falola
• Foreword / by Kenneth W. Harrow
• Preface. Form as Resistance: The Story of This Book
• #WhoOwnsTheProblem?
• Culture, Development, and Other Annoyances
• For Whom Is Africa Rising?
• Africa Is People, Nigeria Is Nigerians: Provocations on Post-mendicant Economies
• The Disappeared African Roots of Emma Watson's UN Feminism
• The Africa Just Outside of Your Hilton Hotel Window
• Capitalism and Memory: Of Golf Courses and Massage Parlors in Badagry, Nigeria
• Ode to the Bottle-For Ken Harrow who Laughed
• Aso Ebi on my Mind
• Ara Eko, Ara Oke: Lagos, Culture, and the Rest of Us
• A Race through Race in Missouri
• Dowry: Managing Africa's Many Lovers
• Caribbean Self, African Selfie
• Face Me, I Book You: Writing Africa's Agency in the Age of the Netizen
• What Does (Nigerian) Literature Secure?
• Post-centenary Nigeria: New Literatures, New Leaders, New Nation

Author/Creator:

Adesanmi, Pius

Contributors:

Falola, Toyin

Harrow, Kenneth W.

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Who Owns the Problem?: Africa and the Struggle for Agency [by Adesanmi, P.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Who Owns the Problem? : Africa and the Struggle for Agency [by Adesanmi, P.] (East Lansing : Michigan State University Press,c2020 — ISBN 9781611863550)

Related Series:

African Humanities and the Arts Ser.

Subjects:

Literature and society — Nigeria

Literature and society — Africa

Nigeria — Intellectual life — 21st century

Africa — Intellectual life — 21st century

Nigeria — Social conditions — 21st century

Africa — Social conditions — 21st century

General Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

ISBNs:

9781609176303
1609176308
9781611863550 [Invalid]
1611863554 [Invalid]
9781628953923 [Invalid]
1628953926 [Invalid]
9781628963939 [Invalid]
162896393X [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1128722910

Other Control Numbers:

EBC5981493 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp300966814