16:00 - 17:30
Room: Arts – Lecture Room 7
Stream: African Historiography, Vernacular Epistemology, and the Invention of An Archive in Toyin Falola’s Scholarship
Chair/s:
Abikal Borah
Postcolonial African Historiography and Toyin Falola’s Place in It
Abikal Borah
The University of Texas at Austin, Austin

Diverse global currents and currencies of epistemic formation have influenced post-nationalist African historiography. Over the last four decades, Toyin Falola has emerged as a key contributor to these conversations, and in the process, his own historical imagination has undergone significant changes. Falola’s critique of African nationalist historiography, his reading of African pluriversalism, and more recently, his exploration of the idea of ‘ritual archives’ in the African context has ushered in some possibilities of rescuing Africa from the long sustained practices of epistemicide. This essay engages with these shifts in Falola’s scholarship to explain how it contributes to postcolonial critical thinking. Through an engagement with Falola as an intellectual historian, it seeks to extrapolate his contribution to the discipline of history from a global and transregional perspective.


Reference:
Tu-A07 Toyin Falola's Scholarship 1-P-001
Presenter/s:
Abikal Borah
Presentation type:
Panel
Room:
Arts – Lecture Room 7
Chair/s:
Abikal Borah
Date:
Tuesday, 11 September
Time:
16:00 - 16:15
Session times:
16:00 - 17:30