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M. Sani Umar on Nigerian academia, scientism, and its alternatives
Episode 113th December 2021 • Africa Knows • Africa Knows Collective
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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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