The Nigerian “Diaspora Paradox”
The Nigerian “Diaspora Paradox” One of the most challenging experiences a Nigerian in Diaspora will ever face is encountered within the paradox of deciding either remaining in a foreign land…
ontology
Response: Culture is Not Costume
Response: Culture is Not Costume: Why Non-Africans Should Not Wear African Clothing http://www.mycoloures.com/2014/10/culture-is-not-costume-why-non-africans.html?m=1 Nneka Okona’s piece on the “wrongful appropriation” of female African dress is an interesting, challenging and well-written…
The Ontology of the African VII: Play and Wound
If a leader or intellectual is not articulating the values and necessities of robust human pride to his people, he or she is a dangerous traitor unworthy of the position…
Violence in Mandelaland: Why?
Violence in Mandelaland: Why? ‘Mandelaland’, the land of Nelson Mandela, a Xhosa, is the Republic of South Africa. Mandeland is very far from being Mandela-like in any conception whatsoever. The…
Which Research or Practice Methodology Will You Prefer?
Which Research or Practice Methodology Will You Prefer? There are four ontologies / epistemologies by which we undertake research in the academy. empiricism, positivism, realism and pot-modernism. We also put…
The Ontology of the African VI: Thieving Patriotism
‘Patriotism of the stomach’ is much more pitiable than it sounds. Patriotism, even in moderate forms, is a thoroughly virtuous state of being to adopt underpinned by loyalty, commitment, support…