The Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Abimbola Akeem Owoade; a renowned historian and scholar, Professor Toyin Falola, and the Vice-Chancellor of Emmanuel Alayande University of Education (EAUED), Oyo, Professor Olanrewaju Olaniyan, have called for greater recognition of indigenous knowledge systems, insisting that Africa’s academic future depends on integrating its intellectual heritage into mainstream scholarship.
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Professor Toyin Falolahas challenged Nigerian universities, policymakers and intellectual institutions to abandon long-held assumptions about the inferiority of African knowledge systems, insisting that Yorùbá mythology represents a sophisticated intellectual tradition capable of contributing meaningfully to philosophy, governance, psychology, ethics and global scholarship.
Exploring politics of knowledge and belonging in Africa’s universities Prof Suren Pillay