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IDENTITY AND SOCIAL POSITIONING: A DEBATE

I placed headings to indicate the ideas being discussed. Questions of Identity as Social Unifier "In an environment were everyone has one singular thing in common: IDENTITY" -joan.Osa Oviawe Hmmmm...leads to some interesting questions: Is identity monolithic,singular or plural? Is it constant or shifting? What may be meant by commonality of identity among social groups?On what indices are these commonalities based on? A memorable work that comes to mind on this is the conversation between Densu and Damfo in Ayi Kwei Armah's novel The Healers on the constitution of the self through multiple identities, mediated through social conditioning and more individualistic drives, and the need to be selective about what aspects of the self one should identify with. Identity Understood in Relation to Conceptions of the Self Almost certainly, the answer to those questions above will depend on the conception of the nature of the self that forms the framework in terms o...
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IF DIASPORA NIGERIANS RETURN HOME TO WORK,WILL THAT TRANSFORM THE COUNTRY POSITIVELY?

A CONVERSATION ON FACEBOOK BETWEEN THE NIGERIAN WRITER AYANDA ABEKE AND TOYIN ADEPOJU Ayanda Abeke: But Toyin, You know you're one of those who should be held responsible for those problems you discoursed in the article [on education in Nigeria] When all you think about is travel abroad and teach the with man their language with their own styles. Whereas, the reverse is suppose to be the case, just like the case of China. Learn how and how not and apply them into your own context. I'm very sure if, all Nigerians teaching abroad rethink and decide to come back home to reform our education sector, believe me, we will be the true Giant of Africa in no time. But that's is if we think globally and act locally which is the twist of your article. Toyin Adepoju:With reference to your grouse,perhaps you would do well to find out why I have chosen yo study in England after doing two degrees in Naija and staring and discontinuing a third one and after teaching there for 12 years afte...
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toyin adepoju: God bless you Oshodi Oshodi: mean while, you no get money fo borrow from Oshodi Oshodi: wetin be your use Mr. Man??? toyin adepoju: my apl;ologies toyin adepoju: we hope to be more useful Oshodi Oshodi: help me sell your bike and borrow me the money toyin adepoju: you dey settle person yourself? Oshodi Oshodi: help me sell your bike now Oshodi Oshodi: I go buy you new in in one year toyin adepoju: dont worry toyin adepoju: i will send a delegation to my Infernal Compatriots on your behlf Oshodi Oshodi: hahahahahashashha toyin adepoju: dey will come at midnight tomorrow Oshodi Oshodi: nice one! toyin adepoju: only you will see them Oshodi Oshodi: shai you know say I dey play o toyin adepoju: dont be afarid toyin adepoju: dont be a coward toyin adepoju: be bold Oshodi Oshodi: make you no sell your bike o toyin adepoju: relax toyin adepoju: dis ideas is better than bike selling Oshodi Oshodi: but I will not take offence if you sell your body toyin adepoju: bike might not ge...
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The Man who Thought He Was European

This essay is an exploration of political and cultural identity. This exploration is centred on an investigation of the modes of integration of a particular person, the writer, into the political and cultural heritage represented principally by Europe, but also understood, in its wider sense, as that of the West. The West is understood here as consisting in Europe and North America. The exploration of identity is dramatized in the particular form assumed by the essay through which it is conducted. The essay departs from the conventional format of the scholarly essay in employing different modes of indentation for the main text and the refrain that operates as a counterpoint to the text. It therefore tries to harmonise both the conventional essay form and an adaptation of an element in poetic form-the refrain. This exploration in expressive forms is directed at two correlative purposes. The first purpose relates directly to the direction of meaning the essay moves towards-the exploratio...
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my life and roots of my academic interests in exchange with ade

Oshodi Oshodi: Babalawo! toyin adepoju: good morning. I hope you a good weekend? toyin adepoju: weekend Oshodi Oshodi: worked and spent time with family, immediate and extended. It was pleasurable Oshodi Oshodi: and you? toyin adepoju: forgive my tormenting me. look at your mate on this page. she finished BA same year as me toyin adepoju: Good morning.   I wonder if I could have five copies of your excellent book The Pregnancy Book?      My  address is   c/o Toyin Adepoju,   Bernard Johnson House,   78 Fortis Green,   N2 9EX.   Thanks.   http://www.chem.ucl.ac.uk/people/fielding/biog.html    toyin adepoju: mistake look at just the url -http://www.chem.ucl.ac.uk/people/fielding/biog.html Oshodi Oshodi: she is even attractive...doesn’t look academic like you toyin adepoju: type this into your browser toyin adepoju: ucl.ac.uk/news/news helen fielding toyin adepoju: copy and paste j...
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Letisa: I am developing an argument on a number of fronts. I am working in relation to ideas of embodiment in relation to knowing as well as ideas about how Western thought has developed from the military culture of ancient Rome. Toyin: Does is this notion of embodiment in relation to cognitive process gain from a specifically female inspirational base? Letisa: I’m still working on that but my argument is for the notion that the act of knowing proceeds along a number of correlative lines, which include the sensory and the mental, that, in fact, the mind could be understood as located all over the body not only in the head since our sensory apparatus operates all over our bodies and are simply routed to their centres in the head. Toyin: That makes sense. How do you intend to develop that into a cognitive procedure? Letisa: That’s the challenge. The central challenge I face here is that the inspirational spring of my ideas derives from the fact that a lot of my ideas emerge from non-rati...
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