Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò (Yoruba: [o.lú.fɛ́.mi tá.í.wò]; born 1956)[1] is a philosopher and professor of African political thought at the Africana Studies Research Center at Cornell University.[2][3][4] He was born in Nigeria, where he lived most of his life except for five years in Canada.[4]
Works
edit- Taiwo, Olufemi (2015) [1996]. Legal Naturalism: A Marxist Theory of Law. Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-1-5017-0173-3.[5]
- Taiwo, Olufemi (2010). How Colonialism Preempted Modernity in Africa. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-22130-8.[6][7][8][9]
- Táíwò, Olúfémi (2014). Africa Must Be Modern: A Manifesto. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-01278-4.[10][11]
- Taiwo, Olufemi (2023). Against Decolonisation. Taking African Agency Seriously. London, Hurst, 2022. ISBN 9781787386921
References
edit- ^ "Taiwo, Olufemi 1956- [WorldCat Identities]".
- ^ "Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò | Africana Studies and Research Center". africana.cornell.edu. Retrieved June 28, 2022.
- ^ Emmanuel, Abímbọ́lá Olúwafẹ́mi (2022). "Defending the Decolonization Trope in Philosophy: A Reply to Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò". The Southern Journal of Philosophy. 60 (2): 304–319. doi:10.1111/sjp.12439. S2CID 240507881.
- ^ a b "Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò – Historian, philosopher – africana.cornell.edu". TED – Ideas Worth Spreading. 2017. Retrieved May 22, 2023.
- ^ Lipkin, Robert Justin (1998). "Review of Legal Naturalism: A Marxist Theory of Law". Mind. 107 (428): 900–904. JSTOR 2659799.
- ^ Reid, Richard (2011). "How Colonialism Preempted Modernity in Africa". The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History. 39 (3): 536–538. doi:10.1080/03086534.2011.598039. S2CID 161260102.
- ^ Manai, Adel (Summer 2010). "How Colonialism Preempted Modernity in Africa". African Studies Quarterly. 11 (4): 162–163. ProQuest 759262557.
- ^ Peel, J. D. Y. (2011). "OLUFEMI TAIWO, How Colonialism Preempted Modernity in Africa. Bloomington IN: Indiana University Press (pb $27.95 – 978 0 25322 130 0). 2010, 384 pp". Africa. 81 (3): 517–518. doi:10.1017/S0001972011000428. S2CID 197653219.
- ^ Macola, Giacomo (2011). "Olúfémi Táíwó . How Colonialism Preempted Modernity in Africa . Bloomington : Indiana University Press . 2010 . Pp. xii, 352. Cloth $75.00, paper $27.95". The American Historical Review. 116 (2): 550–551. doi:10.1086/ahr.116.2.550.
- ^ Ney, Stephen (2014). "Africa Must Be Modern: A Manifesto by Olúfémi Táiwò (review)". Research in African Literatures. 45 (4): 154–155. doi:10.2979/reseafrilite.45.4.154. Project MUSE 562674.
- ^ Sillah, R. (2015). "Africa must be modern: A manifesto". African Affairs. 114 (455): 323–325. doi:10.1093/afraf/adv014.