Celebrating Toyin Falola: the father of African Ancestral Studies, By Samson O. Ijaola

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…the argument for AAS extends from two closely related standpoints. The first is that existing disciplinary fields and subfields, such as history, anthropology, religious studies, indigenous languages, and folklore, have fragmented and integrated views of African cultural memory in ways that allow colonial-era taxonomies to flourish. Secondly, the true essence of Africa’s contemporary social, political, […]

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