Tuesday, December 3, 2019

Tejumola Olaniyan


via @africasacountry

This clip, from 2014, of Tejumola Olaniyan (1959-2019) talking about "the misconception of modernity," gives a sense of how much we will miss him.


via lars cuzner

Tejumola Olaniyan is Louise Durham Mead Professor of English and African Languages and Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, where he is also Senior Fellow of the Institute for Research in the Humanities.

In the course of their research for European Attraction Limited, Fadlabi and Lars Cuzner performed a series of interviews with arts professionals, scholars and curators. The video above was recorded during the symposium "Rethinking Cosmopolitanism: African in Europe - Europe in Africa" celebrated in the Akademie der Künste, Pariser Platz, Berlin, Germany, February 2-3, 2013

Video: Ayman Alazraq








I can see one of the stupidEST people I ever met (a racist with higher education) murmuring -  mumbo-jumbo.
AH AH!



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