Fela Kuti, African Indigenous Knowledges, Politics, and Culture

Gloria Emeagwali is Professor of History and African Studies at Central Connecticut State University.

• Section One: Fela Kuti: Music, Power, And Philosophy 1. Fela Kuti and African Indigenous Knowledges 2. Language, Revolt and Discursive Metaphors in Fela Kuti’s Shuffering and Shmiling and Beast of No Nation 3. On Responsibility and Recognition: Fela Anikulapo-Kuti’s Postcolonial Vibes 4. Christian and Yoruba Paradigms on the Good and the Bad: Virtue and Vice in Fela Anikulapo-Kuti’s Philosophy 5. The Poetics of Sorrow Tears and Blood and the Kalakuta Philosophy in Selected Documentary Cinema on Fela Anikulapo Kuti 6. Fela and the Movement of the People 7. Afrobeat, Reggae and Black Liberation Section Two: Indigenous Knowledges and Culture 8. Indigenous Knowledge Systems as Cultural Identities in Nigerian Traditional Music: A Praxis on the Knowledge Production of the Ayan System 9. Nigeria’s Popular Music: A Study of Adeolu Akinsanya’s Highlife Music 10. Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Climate: Borana Predictive Mechanisms and Sustainability 11. Appraising Cultural Preservation in Uganda and the Rest of Africa through the Works and Legacies of Okot p’Bitek 12. A Post-Colonial Interpretation of Oladejo Akande’s Art Section Three: Local and Global Politics 13. The Political Economy of Universal Health Coverage for Maternal Health in Nigeria 14. Afro-Indigenous Environmental Ethics and the Rural-Urban Drift in Africa 15. Foreign Aid as the Bane of Nigeria’s Environmental Woes 16. Rethinking Human Development for Accelerated African Growth: Indigenous Knowledge Framework and Strategies 17. Rethinking International Relations: Afro-Pessimism and the Depiction of Africa in International Relations Theory 18. African Studies (Africa) and the Challenges to Western Misrepresentation