Afrikology - Adodo, Anselm

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Résumé :
During the twentieth century, global politics and economics have been marked by two politically, economically, and intellectually divi - sive rather than culturally and psychologically integrative forces. This has been reflected in the East/West mutually antagonistic divide of communism/capitalism and the North/South chasm of wealth and poverty. The result, worldwide, has been, to a considerable degree, stasis and disintegration. In this book, the authors argue that both capitalism and communism were born out of narrow views of our hu - manity, ignoring the cultural richness of the rest of the world. The evidence is everywhere: climate change, terrorism, rising poverty, political tension, social chaos and food insecurity. But this is not a book of lamentations. The authors present real case studies to dem - onstrate that there is an alternative to the current chaos: Afrikology. It is Afri- because it is inspired by ideas initially produced in Africa, the cradle of humankind; it is ko (logy) because it is based on logos, the word from which the world was originated, but at the same time, an episteme, a worldly-wise eco-logical knowledge, and consciousness. It stands for a plurality of epistemic directions. Knowledge, therefore, is an interpretation that is always situated within a living communal tradition, co-created by individuals, communities, and enterprises, specifically out of Africa's genius, alongside others.

Biographie:
Father Anselm Adodo is a member of the Benedictine order of the Catholic Church. He was ordained a priest in 1997. He is the founder and Director of Nigeria's foremost herbal research institute, the Pax Herbal Clinic and Research Laboratories, popularly called Pax Herbals. He is a prominent advocate of African Herbal medicine research, indigenous knowledge systems, rural community development, health policy reform and transformation of education in Africa. Anselm's approach to research is transdisciplinary and multidisciplinary and this reflects in his publications. He is an adjunct visiting lecturer at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan, Nigeria, where he teaches African Transformation studies and Traditional African Medicine. He is an Adjunct Fellow of the Nigerian Institute of Medical Research, Nigeria, a Fellow of the Nigerian Society of Botanists and a Senior Fellow at Trans4m centre for Integral Development, France.