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Kofi Awoonor: the Essays of a Humanist 139 Olúfẹmi Táíwò Philosophical Foundations of the African Humanities through Postcolonial Perspectives Cross/Cultures Readings in Post/Colonial Literatures and Cultures in English Edited by Gordon Collier Geoffrey Davis† Bénédicte Ledent Co-founding Editor Hena Maes-Jelinek† Advisory Board David Callahan (University of Aveira) Stephen Clingman (University of Massachusetts) Marc Delrez (Université de Liège) Gaurav Desai (University of Michigan) Russell McDougall (University of New England) John McLeod (University of Leeds) Irikidzayi Manase (University of the Free State) Caryl Phillips (Yale University) Diana Brydon (University of Manitoba) Pilar Cuder-Dominguez (University of Huelva) Wendy Knepper (Brunel University) Carine Mardorossian (University of Buffalo) Maria Olaussen (University of Gothenburg) Chris Prentice (Otago University) Cheryl Stobie (University of KwaZulu-Natal) Daria Tunca (Université de Liège) volume 209 The titles published in this series are listed at brill.com/cc Philosophical Foundations of the African Humanities through Postcolonial Perspectives Edited by Helen Yitah and Helen Lauer LEIDEN | BOSTON Cover illustration by Kiagho Kilonzo, 2018, courtesy of the artist. The Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available online at http://catalog.loc.gov LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019002068 Typeface for the Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic scripts: “Brill”. See and download: brill.com/brill-typeface. ISSN 0924-1426 ISBN 978-90-04-37759-2 (hardback) ISBN 978-90-04-39294-6 (e-book) Copyright 2019 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands. Koninklijke Brill NV incorporates the imprints Brill, Brill Hes & De Graaf, Brill Nijhoff, Brill Rodopi, Brill Sense, Hotei Publishing, mentis Verlag, Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh and Wilhelm Fink Verlag. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use is granted by Koninklijke Brill NV provided that the appropriate fees are paid directly to The Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Suite 910, Danvers, MA 01923, USA. Fees are subject to change. This book is printed on acid-free paper and produced in a sustainable manner. Contents Contributors ix List of Figures and Tables xvi Introduction: Mediating a Hapless Postcolonialism through Experiential Critique 1 Helen Yitah Part 1 The Humanities and the Postcolonial Experience 1 Philosophical Foundations of the Humanities 11 Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 2 The Humanities and the Postcolonial Ghanaian Experience: The Jubilee Year 32 Kofi N. Awoonor 3 Beyond the Labor Market: Reinforcing the Epistemic Advantage of African Universities in the Global Knowledge Society 45 Helen Lauer 4 Contemporary Ghanaian Dance: A Basis for Scholarly Investigation of the Human Condition 72 Francis Nii-Yartey 5 The Formulation of Research in the Humanities: Perspectives from the Creative Arts 88 J. H. Kwabena Nketia Part 2 The Humanities and National Identity 6 The Humanities and the Idea of National Identity 103 Kwasi Wiredu vi Contents 7 Ghanaian Neo-traditional Performance and ‘Development’: Multiple Interfaces between Rural and Urban, Traditional and Modern 120 E. John Collins 8 Kofi Awoonor: The Essays of a Humanist 139 Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò 9 Sell, Borrow, Work or Migrate? Exploring the Choice of Coping Strategies in Ghana 152 Abena Oduro Part 3 Language and Knowledge Production from Postcolonial Perspectives 10 Scientific Decolonization and Language Use in the Study of African Medicine, Religion, and Art 171 Alexis B. Tengan 11 Credibility and Accountability in Academic Discourse: Increasing the Awareness of Ghanaian Graduate Students 197 Gordon S. K. Adika 12 About the English Language in Ghana Today and about Ghanaian English and Languaging in Ghana 220 Kari Dako 13 Polylectal Description: Reflections on Experience in Ghana 254 M. E. Kropp Dakubu Part 4 Afterwords 14 Nii: A Recollection on Obits 277 James Gibbs Contents vii 15 Memories of Kofi Awoonor in Texas 283 Bernth Lindfors 16 Mary Esther Kropp Dakubu: A Tribute 287 Helen Lauer Index 289 Contributors Gordon Senanu Kwame Adika is an associate professor and the director of the Language Centre, University of Ghana, where he teaches all aspects of academic discourse to undergradu- ate and graduate students. He has an MPhil in English and Applied Linguis- tics from the University of Cambridge, UK, and a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Ghana. He has been lecturing, researching, and publishing for several years, and serving as a consulting editor for various organizations and publishing houses in Ghana, including the University of Education at Win- neba. For two years he was the consulting editor for the Heritage, an indepen- dent Ghanaian newspaper. He is also a member of the Publications Board of the University of Ghana, a member of the Distance Learning editorial team of the university, and a former editor of the Legon Journal of the Humanities. He organized the launch of the American Council of Learned Societies’ African Humanities Fellowship Award scheme. Kofi Nyidevu Awoonor (1935–2013) was a distinguished scholar, poet, novelist, essayist, dramatist, dip- lomat, statesman, and African cultural icon. Awoonor earned a BA from the University College of Ghana, an MA from the University College, London, and a PhD in comparative literature from SUNY Stony Brook. He translated Ewe po- etry in his critical study Guardians of the Sacred Word: Ewe Poetry (1974). Other works of literary criticism include The Breast of the Earth: A Survey of the His- tory, Culture, and Literature of Africa South of the Sahara (1975). A collection of his essays, The African Predicament, was published in 2006. He is the author of novels, including This Earth, My Brother (1971) and Comes the Voyager at Last (1992), and his collections of poetry include Rediscovery and Other Poems (1964), Night of My Blood (1971), Ride Me, Memory (1973), The House by the Sea (1978), The Latin American and Caribbean Notebook (1992), and a volume of col- lected poems, Until the Morning After (1987). His posthumous collection The Promise of Hope: New and Selected Poems was launched in September 2014. John Collins (E. J. Collins) is a professor and former head of the Music Department of the University of Ghana at Legon. He has been active in the Ghanaian and West African music scene since 1969 as a guitarist, percussionist, harmonica player, band leader, music union activist, writer, and popular performing-arts x Contributors producer. He obtained his BA degree in sociology/archaeology from the Uni- versity of Ghana in 1972 and his PhD in ethnomusicology in 1994 from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo. He is currently Chairman of the Bokoor African Popular Music Archives Foundation (BAPMAF), an NGO. He is a patron of MUSIGA (Ghanaian Musicians Union), the Afrika Obonu music ther- apy drum group, and Basil Yaabere King’s Drama Company. He has served as a consultant for a World Bank project to assist the African music industry, and since 2007 has been a board member of the Danish Embassy’s Ghana Cultural Fund. He has worked, recorded, and played with numerous Ghanaian and Nigerian bands, including the Jaguar Jokers, Francis Kenya, E. T. Mensah, Abla- dei, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, Koo Nimo, Kwaa Mensah, Victor Uwaifo, Bob Pinodo, the Bunzus, the Black Berets, T. O. Jazz, S. K. Oppong, and Atongo Zimba. In the 1970s he ran his own Bokoor highlife guitar band, which released twenty songs; during the 1980s and 1990s he ran the Bokoor Recording Studio, eight miles outside of Accra. Collins has published (in Europe, the USA, Japan, Nige- ria, South Africa, and Ghana) over a hundred journalistic and academic works (including seven books) on African popular and neo-traditional music. His forthcoming book about Fela Anikulapo-Kuti will be published in Europe. He has given many radio and television broadcasts, including over forty for the BBC. In 1978 he wrote and presented the BBC’s first-ever (five-part) series of radio programs on African popular music, called ‘In The African Groove’; he has also served as a film consultant and facilitator for the BBC, IDTV of Amsterdam, the German Huschert Realfilm, Danish Loki Films, and New Jersey’s Films for the Humanities and Sciences. He is co-leader with Aaron Bebe Sukura of the Local Dimension highlife band, which toured Europe in 2002, 2004, and 2006 and released a CD in 2003 entitled N’Yong on the French Disques Arion label. Along with Professor J. H. K. Nketia and the Ghanaian folk guitarist Koo Nimo, in 1987 he was made an honorary life-member of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM). Kari Dako is an associate professor in the Department of English, University of Ghana. She has a background in Germanic studies at the University of Oslo, Norway and Justus Liebig University (Giessen, Germany); but she switched fields in Ghana to take her BA and MA in English at the University of Ghana. Her re- search and publications are mainly on English in Ghana, Pidgins in Ghana, and the Ghanaian novel. Among her publications is the book Ghanaianisms: A Glossary. She has also translated into English, from the original Danish, Thorkild Hansen’s famous trilogy on the Danish/Norwegian slave trade from the seventeenth century to 1850. Kari Dako is also a writer of fiction. Contributors xi Mary Esther Kropp Dakubu was Professor of Linguistics and Professor Emerita at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana. She was Director of the Language Centre, edi- tor of the Research Review, the journal of the Institute of African Studies, and Head of the African Studies Publications Unit. James Gibbs was educated in the UK and USA, and taught at universities in Ghana, Malawi, Nigeria, Belgium, and the UK. Since retiring from teaching at the University of the West of England, he has continued working as a researcher, reviewer, and editor.
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