Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò
Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò is a teacher, thinker and humanist, working out of the Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell University in the US. His research interests include philosophy of law, social and political philosophy, Marxism, and African and Africana philosophy. His writings have been translated into French, Italian, German, and Portuguese. He has taught at universities in Canada, Nigeria, Germany, South Korea, and Jamaica.
An unhealthy and unhelpful preoccupation

An unhealthy and unhelpful preoccupation

African intellectuals: occident anxiety A spectre is haunting Africa. It is the spectre of occident anxiety. Okay, I exaggerate: it is not haunting Africa but the imagination of its intellectuals. I call it “occident anxiety”. I began to understand this in my graduate...

Africa’s challenge to modernity

Africa’s challenge to modernity

Contrary to popular belief, Africa’s fortunes and modernity have been intertwined for at least two and a half centuries Africa’s challenge to modernity – and the continent is by no means alone in this – should be understood in terms of the following: (1) what have...

Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò
Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò is a teacher, thinker and humanist, working out of the Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell University in the US. His research interests include philosophy of law, social and political philosophy, Marxism, and African and Africana philosophy. His writings have been translated into French, Italian, German, and Portuguese. He has taught at universities in Canada, Nigeria, Germany, South Korea, and Jamaica.
Africa’s challenge to modernity

Africa’s challenge to modernity

Contrary to popular belief, Africa’s fortunes and modernity have been intertwined for at least two and a half centuries Africa’s challenge to modernity – and the continent is by no means alone in this – should be understood in terms of the following: (1) what have...