Sanya Osha
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 147326 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Sanya Osha |
| PRENOMES | Sanya |
| SOBRENOME | Osha |
| ASSINATURA | OSHA S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Tshwane University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-4504-2764 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2003 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Sanya Osha Investigates Dani Nabudere’s Afrikology
Lansana Keita was a well-regarded Sierra Leonean philosopher who passed on recently. His contemporaries include Kwasi Wiredu from Ghana, Paulin J. Hountondj from Benin, and his good friend and colleague Abiola Irele from Nigeria. All these illustrious African philosophical figures and scholars have since passed on, and Keita joins their ranks as an ancestor. Arguably, although he is probably the least well known of them outside African philosophi…
Spaces of African Thought
This article addresses Bruce Janz’s “enactivist” reading of African philosophy from two perspectives. The space in which African philosophy finds itself remains problematic, and, thus, this article attempts to unpack this issue. Janz argues that African philosophy allows for only a few or no possibilities for radical thought. However, his own reading of the Nigerian philosopher Sophie Oluwole serves to debunk this claim. Oluwole’s thought highlig…
Black Earth Woman (an excerpt)
Abidjan '99
Abidjan '99A Journey through Disbelief Sanya Osha (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution Looking for relief and new possibilities, a lecturer at the University of Ibadan travels to Cape Town, but the route is anything but direct. BY 1999 the massive exodus out of Nigeria had attained a crescendo. In that auspicious year, the military handed over power to civilians after decades of military rule. The citizenry was weary from being browbe…
Olabiyi Babalola J. Yai (1939-2020)
When Professor Abiola Francis Irele passed in 2017, we had met a couple of months earlier at a conference hosted by the Institute for Pan-African Thought and Conversation (IPTC) in Johannesburg. Throughout the huge conference, I had been beside Irele, ravenously tapping into his wealth of knowledge and experience, plying him with an endless barrage of questions relating to our intellectual history and the key figures who had indelibly marked and …
Ethical Benchmarks in Life and Art of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti
Dani Nabudere's Afrikology
The Political Legacy of Thabo Mbeki
Aspects of Ken Saro-Wiwa’s Legacy
The 17th annual Lagos Book and Art Festival (LABAF), which took place in November 2015, commemorated 20 years since Ken Saro-Wiwa’s passing. Its central theme was ‘Texts of Self-Determination’. The
Ken Saro-Wiwa
When Ken Saro-Wiwa and his nine Ogoni compatriots were hanged in November 1995, it both polarized and unified the fragile as well as volatile geographical entity known as Nigeria. However, this tim
African Postcolonial Modernity
African cultures and politics remain significantly affected by precolonial and postcolonial configurations of modernity, as well as hegemonic global systems. This project explores Africa's conversatio
Urbanscapes
Abdoumaliq Simone ends his book, For the City Yet to Come: Changing African Life in Four Cities (2004), with a poignant description of Francois Woukoache’s film, Fragments of Life . Set in Yaounde, Cameroon, the film depicts three different scenarios involving an out-of-work student lured into illicit activities for survival, a girl out to avenge the death of her father, and a couple who get reunited after a mysterious separation. The couple goes…
The Mad and Impossible Poetry of Lagos
The Value of Outsiderdom, or, Anthropology's Folly
Contribution to the Debate on Anthropology in Africa in Africa Spectrum
Textures de la pensée africaine
The debates concerning what ought to be the nature and orientations of African philosophy are long drawn-out. These debates reflect the different conceptual approaches to the invention of contemporary practices of African philosophy between Anglophone and Francophone modes of philosophizing. This article reflects on these differences as well the continuing problems of creating modern African philosophical traditions. In doing so, it demonstrates …
Textures of African Thought
The debates concerning what ought to be the nature and orientations of African philosophy are long drawn-out. These debates reflect the different conceptual approaches to the invention of contemporary practices of African philosophy between Anglophone and Francophone modes of philosophizing. This article reflects on these differences as well the continuing problems of creating modern African philosophical traditions. In doing so, it demonstrates …
The Order/Other of Political Culture
Political commentators are quick to comment on Nigeria's capacities for survival. They are puzzled by how the barely cohesive country manages to stumble from one crisis to another without leading t
Philosophical Perspectives on Communalism and Morality in African Traditions , Polycarp Ikuenobe
Reviewed by: Philosophical Perspectives on Communalisn and Morality in African Traditions Sanya Osha Ikuenobe, Polycarp . 2006. Philosophical Perspectives on Communalism and Morality in African Traditions. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield. 329 pp. $80.00 (cloth); $27.95 (paper). Polycarp Ikuenobe declares: "I see myself as a research scholar in the area of or subject matter of Africa; I see myself as a defender of an African perspective, that is…
Ken Saro-Wiwa's Shadow
The informalization of urbanity
It is more appropriate to commence an investigation of informality as a way of life in African contexts within a broad conceptual and historical framework. In other words, it makes some sense to study processes of informalization at the juncture at which the colonial imperative sought to transform the lives, institutions and practices of subject peoples. Formal engagements with and discourses on African urban spaces ought to move beyond mere form…
Slow Death in the Niger Delta
Where Vultures Feast: Shell, Human Rights, and Oilby Ike Okonta and Oro In order to understand the various ramifications of the Ogoni crisis, it is necessary to track how the combination of local and global political violence unleashed the peculiar brew that has transformed in ecological terms not only Ogoniland but the Niger Delta as a whole. It is the mix of local and global terror that created the volatile situation that affects the entire reg…
Birth of the Ogoni Protest Movement
This article suggests that the conflict between Ogoni indigenes and the Nigerian government can be better appreciated within the ambit of a much longer history, beginning with the colonial encounter. It also identifies two main trajectories of colonialism: the first that was imposed by the colonial regime and the second that was pursued by the postcolonial state, often in conjunction with multinational capital. Part of the aim of this article wil…
Relocating Agency
Book Review| January 01 2005 Relocating Agency: Modernity and African Letters Relocating Agency: Modernity and African LettersGeorge, Olakunle Sanya Osha Sanya Osha Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Literature Studies (2005) 42 (1): 100–104. https://doi.org/10.2307/40247464 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Sanya Osha; Relocating Agency: Modernity and African Letters. Com…
Small by Small, Nigeria dey Burn
This House has Fallen: Midnight inNigeria by Karl MaierPublic Affairs, 2000, 327 pp.,$18.99, ISBN 1891620606 A feature that most commentators would not fail to discern about Nigeria is its legendary resilience. One always marvels at how the dysfunctional country manages to stumble from one crisis to another without experiencing a decisive debacle or irreversible slide towards genocidal conflict like other African nations such as Liberia, Sierra L…
Anthropology at the Limits
The work of John L. Comaroff and Jean Comaroff is no doubt unique in the field of African studies due to its learned multidisciplinarity, scope, depth, and startling freshness. It is difficult to cover the grounds made by their corpus within a single article, but an attempt can be made to explain their insights into the nature and ramifications of colonialism within the context of South Africa and also to demonstrate why these insights are unique…
Birth of the Ogoni Protest Movement
This article suggests that the conflict between Ogoni indigenes and the Nigerian government can be better appreciated within the ambit of a much longer history, beginning with the colonial encounter. It also identifies two main trajectories of colonialism: the first that was imposed by the colonial regime and the second that was pursued by the postcolonial state, often in conjunction with multinational capital. Part of the aim of this article wil…
The Value of Outsiderdom, or, Anthropology's Folly
Contribution to the Debate on Anthropology in Africa in Africa Spectrum
Dani Nabudere's Afrikology
Aspects of Ken Saro-Wiwa’s Legacy
The 17th annual Lagos Book and Art Festival (LABAF), which took place in November 2015, commemorated 20 years since Ken Saro-Wiwa’s passing. Its central theme was ‘Texts of Self-Determination’. The
The informalization of urbanity
It is more appropriate to commence an investigation of informality as a way of life in African contexts within a broad conceptual and historical framework. In other words, it makes some sense to study processes of informalization at the juncture at which the colonial imperative sought to transform the lives, institutions and practices of subject peoples. Formal engagements with and discourses on African urban spaces ought to move beyond mere form…
Anthropology at the Limits
The work of John L. Comaroff and Jean Comaroff is no doubt unique in the field of African studies due to its learned multidisciplinarity, scope, depth, and startling freshness. It is difficult to cover the grounds made by their corpus within a single article, but an attempt can be made to explain their insights into the nature and ramifications of colonialism within the context of South Africa and also to demonstrate why these insights are unique…
Small by Small, Nigeria dey Burn
This House has Fallen: Midnight inNigeria by Karl MaierPublic Affairs, 2000, 327 pp.,$18.99, ISBN 1891620606 A feature that most commentators would not fail to discern about Nigeria is its legendary resilience. One always marvels at how the dysfunctional country manages to stumble from one crisis to another without experiencing a decisive debacle or irreversible slide towards genocidal conflict like other African nations such as Liberia, Sierra L…
Relocating Agency
Book Review| January 01 2005 Relocating Agency: Modernity and African Letters Relocating Agency: Modernity and African LettersGeorge, Olakunle Sanya Osha Sanya Osha Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Literature Studies (2005) 42 (1): 100–104. https://doi.org/10.2307/40247464 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Sanya Osha; Relocating Agency: Modernity and African Letters. Com…
Slow Death in the Niger Delta
Where Vultures Feast: Shell, Human Rights, and Oilby Ike Okonta and Oro In order to understand the various ramifications of the Ogoni crisis, it is necessary to track how the combination of local and global political violence unleashed the peculiar brew that has transformed in ecological terms not only Ogoniland but the Niger Delta as a whole. It is the mix of local and global terror that created the volatile situation that affects the entire reg…
Birth of the Ogoni Protest Movement
This article suggests that the conflict between Ogoni indigenes and the Nigerian government can be better appreciated within the ambit of a much longer history, beginning with the colonial encounter. It also identifies two main trajectories of colonialism: the first that was imposed by the colonial regime and the second that was pursued by the postcolonial state, often in conjunction with multinational capital. Part of the aim of this article wil…
Ken Saro-Wiwa's Shadow
The informalization of urbanity
It is more appropriate to commence an investigation of informality as a way of life in African contexts within a broad conceptual and historical framework. In other words, it makes some sense to study processes of informalization at the juncture at which the colonial imperative sought to transform the lives, institutions and practices of subject peoples. Formal engagements with and discourses on African urban spaces ought to move beyond mere form…
Philosophical Perspectives on Communalism and Morality in African Traditions , Polycarp Ikuenobe
Reviewed by: Philosophical Perspectives on Communalisn and Morality in African Traditions Sanya Osha Ikuenobe, Polycarp . 2006. Philosophical Perspectives on Communalism and Morality in African Traditions. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield. 329 pp. $80.00 (cloth); $27.95 (paper). Polycarp Ikuenobe declares: "I see myself as a research scholar in the area of or subject matter of Africa; I see myself as a defender of an African perspective, that is…
The Order/Other of Political Culture
Political commentators are quick to comment on Nigeria's capacities for survival. They are puzzled by how the barely cohesive country manages to stumble from one crisis to another without leading t
Textures de la pensée africaine
The debates concerning what ought to be the nature and orientations of African philosophy are long drawn-out. These debates reflect the different conceptual approaches to the invention of contemporary practices of African philosophy between Anglophone and Francophone modes of philosophizing. This article reflects on these differences as well the continuing problems of creating modern African philosophical traditions. In doing so, it demonstrates …
Textures of African Thought
The debates concerning what ought to be the nature and orientations of African philosophy are long drawn-out. These debates reflect the different conceptual approaches to the invention of contemporary practices of African philosophy between Anglophone and Francophone modes of philosophizing. This article reflects on these differences as well the continuing problems of creating modern African philosophical traditions. In doing so, it demonstrates …
The Mad and Impossible Poetry of Lagos
The Value of Outsiderdom, or, Anthropology's Folly
Contribution to the Debate on Anthropology in Africa in Africa Spectrum
African Postcolonial Modernity
African cultures and politics remain significantly affected by precolonial and postcolonial configurations of modernity, as well as hegemonic global systems. This project explores Africa's conversatio
Urbanscapes
Abdoumaliq Simone ends his book, For the City Yet to Come: Changing African Life in Four Cities (2004), with a poignant description of Francois Woukoache’s film, Fragments of Life . Set in Yaounde, Cameroon, the film depicts three different scenarios involving an out-of-work student lured into illicit activities for survival, a girl out to avenge the death of her father, and a couple who get reunited after a mysterious separation. The couple goes…
Ken Saro-Wiwa
When Ken Saro-Wiwa and his nine Ogoni compatriots were hanged in November 1995, it both polarized and unified the fragile as well as volatile geographical entity known as Nigeria. However, this tim
Aspects of Ken Saro-Wiwa’s Legacy
The 17th annual Lagos Book and Art Festival (LABAF), which took place in November 2015, commemorated 20 years since Ken Saro-Wiwa’s passing. Its central theme was ‘Texts of Self-Determination’. The
Dani Nabudere's Afrikology
The Political Legacy of Thabo Mbeki
Ethical Benchmarks in Life and Art of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti
Olabiyi Babalola J. Yai (1939-2020)
When Professor Abiola Francis Irele passed in 2017, we had met a couple of months earlier at a conference hosted by the Institute for Pan-African Thought and Conversation (IPTC) in Johannesburg. Throughout the huge conference, I had been beside Irele, ravenously tapping into his wealth of knowledge and experience, plying him with an endless barrage of questions relating to our intellectual history and the key figures who had indelibly marked and …
Spaces of African Thought
This article addresses Bruce Janz’s “enactivist” reading of African philosophy from two perspectives. The space in which African philosophy finds itself remains problematic, and, thus, this article attempts to unpack this issue. Janz argues that African philosophy allows for only a few or no possibilities for radical thought. However, his own reading of the Nigerian philosopher Sophie Oluwole serves to debunk this claim. Oluwole’s thought highlig…
Black Earth Woman (an excerpt)
Abidjan '99
Abidjan '99A Journey through Disbelief Sanya Osha (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution Looking for relief and new possibilities, a lecturer at the University of Ibadan travels to Cape Town, but the route is anything but direct. BY 1999 the massive exodus out of Nigeria had attained a crescendo. In that auspicious year, the military handed over power to civilians after decades of military rule. The citizenry was weary from being browbe…
Sanya Osha Investigates Dani Nabudere’s Afrikology
Lansana Keita was a well-regarded Sierra Leonean philosopher who passed on recently. His contemporaries include Kwasi Wiredu from Ghana, Paulin J. Hountondj from Benin, and his good friend and colleague Abiola Irele from Nigeria. All these illustrious African philosophical figures and scholars have since passed on, and Keita joins their ranks as an ancestor. Arguably, although he is probably the least well known of them outside African philosophi…
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