Institute of Cultural Studies OAU Ife

Yesterday, the room went silent.

Not the silence of discomfort, but the kind that settles when something true has passed through a space and left its mark.
For our second Wednesday Film Screening, we gathered to watch the story of the Clotilda: the last ship to illegally carry enslaved Africans to American shores in 1860, deliberately sunk by its owner to bury the evidence of his crime. A wreck hidden for over a century. A story that refused, in the end, to stay submerged.
Watching this history unfold in the seminar room at the Institute carried a particular kind of weight. One that is difficult to put into words during the film itself, but demands to be reckoned with afterwards.

Our reflection on the screening, what the film holds, what the silence meant, and why it matters here, in this context, at this moment, is now up on Substack. It's a ten-minute read, and we think it's worth your time.

Some histories don't just ask to be learned. They ask to be felt, revisited, and carried forward.

🔗 Read the full reflection here: https://drjunegbadamosi.substack.com/p/what-the-water-remembers-ancestral?r=ppyp6

The Wednesday Film Screening Series continues. Follow this page to stay informed of upcoming screenings.

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Title: “Yoruba Cultural Belief, Tradition and Utilisation of Modern Dental Services for Oral Health” was discussed by Prof. G.O. Ajibade from the Department of Linguistics and African Languages, and Professor Olusegun Ogunba.
At the Prof. Isaac Adeagbo Akinjogbin Seminar Room in the Institute of Cultural Studies Complex, near the Department of Dramatic Arts, OAU, Ile-Ife.


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cordially invites you to the next in the

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TOPIC: African Identities in Colonial and Decolonial Horizons

DATE: 14th December, 2023. TIME: 3.00 WAT

As usual, the event will be bimodal, holding physically and virtually via Zoom.

The physical meeting will hold at the Faculty of Arts’ Board Room, Humanities Block II, OAU, Ile-Ife.

Virtual via zoom: https://bit.ly/ics-webdec

Chair: Professor Yunusa Kehinde Salami, Department of Philosophy, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife.

Discussant: Dr. M. B. Omigbule, Department of English, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife.

Presenter: Professor Morgan Ndlovu, a Professor and an NRF-rated researcher at the Centre for Education Rights and Transformation of the University of Johannesburg. He previously worked as a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Zululand and an Associate Professor of Development Studies at the University of South Africa, respectively. He is a transdisciplinary scholar with research interests in decolonizing knowledge and power, indigenous knowledge systems (IKS), curriculum and pedagogic studies, education rights, and transformation. His most recent publications include: Performing Indigeneity: Spectacles of Culture and Identity in Coloniality (Pluto), and Marxism and Decolonization in the 21st Century: Living Theories and True Ideas (Routledge). He is currently working on a research project tentatively titled: Decolonial Indigeneity: An Insight into the Idea of African Knowledges

Abstract

The production and reproduction of African identities in theory and praxis take place within what one can describe in terms of colonial and decolonial horizons. Thus, there is, on one hand, an Africanity produced in the consciousness of Western thought tradition, and another produced in the consciousness and divergent worldview and world sensing of African thinkers in their decolonial horizons. In the first instance, being and becoming African is primarily influenced and shaped by Western theo-politics and geopolitics of knowledge that led to the existential classifications of human species, land masses, and waters according to Western cartographic mappings of the world and hierarchization of identities and in the second instance, is the being and becoming African charted in the mold of the third nomos of the earth after the rupture of the colonial horizon of modernity. In this presentation, I seek to explicate the idea of being and becoming African within the framework of the inaugural moment of African entanglement in the colonial horizon of modernity as well as within the framework of the moment of disentanglement through the decolonial horizons.

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Picture excerpt from the installation of Chief Mrs Tolulope Taiwo Nee Adeoti as Yeye Abiye of Ifetedo kingdom by HRM Oba Barr. Akinola Oyetade Akinrera (Latiiri I) The Olubosin of Ifetedo Kingdom.

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Group photo of participants at the workshop. On the front role, from the left to the right, Prof Kesh Govinder, University of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa; Prof Gbenga Fasiku Director Institute of Cultural Studies OAU Ife-Ife, Nigeria; Dr. Sharon Omotoso, University of Ibadan, Nigeria; Prof Mukadasi Buyinza, Academic Registrar, representative of the Deputy Vice Chancellor, Makarere University, Uganda; Prof Eunice Kamaara, Arap Moi University, Kenya; Prof Morgan Ndlove, University of Zululand, South Africa; and Prof Sarah Ssali, Makarere University, Uganda.

Venue Fairway Boutique Hotel, Kampala, Uganda.
Dates 11-15 September, 2023

Picture excerpt from the ongoing UKRai-Strengthening Capacity for Research and Policy Engagement in Shifting Notions of Motherhood and Fatherhood for Improved Children's Wellbeing Workshop at Kampala, Uganda.

Venue Fairway Boutique Hotel, Kampala, Uganda.
Dates 11-15 September, 2023