EPISODE · Dec 13, 2021 · 1H 24M
M. Sani Umar on Nigerian academia, scientism, and its alternatives
from Africa Knows
Muhammad Sani Umar from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, joins David for this opening conversation. Professor Umar talks about his own life history; the tumultuous history of Nigerian academia, from colonialism through structural adjustment to today's growing influence of China; and the epistemological domination of scientism and some of its (African?) alternatives: symbolic, approximate, and religious thinking.
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