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Item African studies and the African identity: an essay on the theory of culture(1994) Layiwola, D.Item African theatre in performance: a festschrift in honour of Martin Banham(Harwood Academic Publishers, 2000) Layiwola, D.Item Africans field research and the realm of value(John Archers (Publishers) Limited, 1999) Layiwola, D.Item Africans field research and the realm of value(John Archers (Publishers) Limited, 1999) Layiwola, D.Item The archaeology of knowledge and the field of dramatic discourse(2008-12) Layiwola, D.I have taken my theme rather than my title from the philosophical discourses of Michel Foucault in his classic work. The Archaeology of Knowledge (1977). Foucault tries, rigorously and implacably, to contain the imperial study of this ancient and pre-historical field and discipline within the elastic limits of the history of ideas and the literary concept of the oeuvre. We know that archaeology as a concept and as a method is not a language as in the association of signs. It is at the same time a form of representation of a past in its longing for a settled, stable, laid down and abiding present and an anticipation of a future that is settled and ‘dead', yet real, perpetually haunting and compelling attention. As an intellectual empathizer with the field - cultural or archaeological -1 hope to bring in. within the framework of the history' of ideas, the value of preserved knowledge. I shall cite largely from literature, drama and history why archaeology will continue to be a dominant, if not a domineering conceptual science in the cause of our present centuryItem Aspect of theatrical circularity in Wale Ogunyemi’s dramaturgy(1993) Layiwola, D.Item Aspects of art, hierarchy and hegemony in the Igbo worldview(1995-10) Layiwola, D.Item C.L.R. James and his role in the history of African cultural and political movements(1988-10) Layiwola, D.Item C.L.R. James and his role in the history of African cultural and political movements(The Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, 1988-10) Layiwola, D.Item The city state of Ibadan: texts and contexts(Institute of African Studies, 2015) Layiwola, D.Item The colonial experience and its asides: dance performances as historical indices in East and West Africa(Institute of African Studies University of Ibadan, 1990) Layiwola, D.Item The colonial experience and its asides: dance performances as historical indices in East and West Africa(Institute of African Studies University of Ibadan, 1990) Layiwola, D.Item Conceptualising African dance theatre in the context of African art and the humanities(Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan, 2010) Layiwola, D.Item The contexts non-linear history essays in honour of Tekena Tamuno(Sefer Books, 2008) Layiwola, D.; Albert, O.; Muller, B.Item Culture and the burden of being and development in Africa(Segundo Selo, 2020) Layiwola, D.This plenary chapter seeks to interrogate two conceptual issues behind the problems of cultural and political development either in Africa as a continent or in any of its disparate parts or countries, whether it is Nigeria, the Sudan, Gambia, Kenya, Zaire or Zimbabwe: culture and development. In so doing, it politically situates the context by adapting two definitional keywords: structure and culture. In the exposition on culture, society and development, I shall borrow arguments and definitions from Claude Ake's theory of political development, Peter Ekeh's theory of social development and cultural theorists like Sule Bello and lshola Williams. The chapter will point out how culture and political events have not worked together in Nigeria and Africa as it should to produce anticipated development; why Nigeria must engage creative thinking and basic praxis to overcome the problems of underdevelopment; and concludes on whether development is still possible under the present political structure and culture. The chapter concludes on the grim question of whether the present debacle in Nigeria and Africa is not already a closed predicament. Though it closes on a pessimistic note, the chapter indicates that the only ray of hope is to continue to interrogate our human condition as the existential movement does. This being that existence not only precedes essence but that concrete human action for development is almost always preceded by historical anguish and disaster such as we presently have. That a closed predicament amounts to where we are now on a continent so blessed with human and material resources and yet much abused and thoroughly managerially bastardized.Item Culture, globalisation and national development(Institute of Cultural Studies, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, 2014) Layiwola, D.In several publications, CLR James, the Trinidadian Pan-Africanist and writer, affirms that persons of African descent in the new world squarely belong in the historiography of the Western world and now have a Western identity. To this end, their empirical, positivist world is Western, since then- day to day living is now in their various nationalities which are geographically situated in the Northern hemisphere. As a researcher and culturalist, one is inspired to seek confirmation or denial of this assertion, since the speaker was himself, both a Caribbean citizen and a Pan-Africanist. However, CLR James’s assertion, apart from raising both identity and methodological questions, implies that we live in a plural world where we have multiple clustered identities. The notion of being African also encompasses the notion of being larger than Africa. The whole enterprise of Diaspora Studies must, therefore, invent such principles and methods that go beyond the nonnative or given parameters that we are hitherto used to. In the present enterprise, the study of history automatically invokes the excavation of African and Diaspora philosophy and psychoanalysis. It is in this form of advocacy that we can enrich that which sees itself as either African or diasporic. On a global scale, we should be able to apply identity categorization to who we are in our particular as well as various nations. In Nigeria, for instance, how do we claim to be a member of our ethnic group as well as a citizen of Nigeria? It is not a question of which comes first, but which supersedes the other on each given occasionItem Culture, national identity and globalization: the Nigerian context(2007-12) Layiwola, D.Item Dance and society in mutual interpretation: the case o f Nigeria(Obafemi Awolowo University Press Ile-Ife . Nigeria, 1989-01) Layiwola, D.Item Dance and society in mutual interpretation: the case o f Nigeria(Obafemi Awolowo University Press. Ile-Ife, 1989-01) Layiwola, D.Item Daniel Fagunwa and the Legacy of Yoruba oral tradition(Bookcraft, 2017) Layiwola, D.
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