Beyond Disorder: Reviving Nigerian Museums in the Midst of the Nigerian Chaos
SEEN IN THE SKY, MARKED ONTHE GROUND: INTERPRETINGTHE MATERIALITY OF ANCIENTYORUBA COSMOGONY
The ancient Yoruba civilization reached its apogee in the first half of the second millennium AD without developing "writing"as a means of communication. Instead, they made abstractions through material and immaterial cultural practices. This talk explores how the Yoruba indigenous hermeneutics shed light on material records. It interprets the Yoruba conceptual idea of the world …
Olanrewaju Lasisi Awarded 2022 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship. Awards Support Early-Career Scholars in the Final Year of PhD Dissertation Writing
Thrilled to announce that I have been awarded a 2022 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship. The fellowship supports doctoral students in the humanities and interpretive social sciences with a year of funding to facilitate the completion of projects that will form the foundations of their scholarly careers. This program is made possible by a grant from …
Author Meets Critics: Discussing Akin Ogundiran’s The Yoruba: A New History
African Studies Association XXI-K-30 Author Meets Critic: Discussing Akin Ogundiran's The Yoruba: A New History Saturday, November 20, 2:00-3:45pm Eastern Chair: Abidemi Babalola, University of Cambridge Book Title: The Yoruba: A New HistoryAuthor: Akin Ogundiran, University of North Carolina, CharlotteAderonke Adesanya, James Madison UniversityBiodun Ogundayo, University of Pittsburgh at Bradford Constanze Weise, East Tenesse State …
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OLANREWAJU LASISI 