Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò (Yoruba: [o.lú.fɛ́.mi tá.í.wò]; born 1956) is a philosopher and professor of African political thought at the Africana Studies Research Center at Cornell University. He was born in Nigeria, where he lived most of his life except for five years in Canada.
Works
- Taiwo, Olufemi (2015) . Legal Naturalism: A Marxist Theory of Law. Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-1-5017-0173-3.
- Taiwo, Olufemi (2010). How Colonialism Preempted Modernity in Africa. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-22130-8.
- Táíwò, Olúfémi (2014). Africa Must Be Modern: A Manifesto. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-01278-4.
- Taiwo, Olufemi (2023). Against Decolonisation. Taking African Agency Seriously. London, Hurst, 2022. ISBN 9781787386921
References
- "Taiwo, Olufemi 1956- [WorldCat Identities]".
- "Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò | Africana Studies and Research Center". africana.cornell.edu. Retrieved June 28, 2022.
- Emmanuel, Abímbọ́lá Olúwafẹ́mi (2022). "Defending the Decolonization Trope in Philosophy: A Reply to Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò". The Southern Journal of Philosophy. 60 (2): 304–319. doi:10.1111/sjp.12439. S2CID 240507881.
- ^ "Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò – Historian, philosopher – africana.cornell.edu". TED – Ideas Worth Spreading. 2017. Retrieved May 22, 2023.
- Lipkin, Robert Justin (1998). "Review of Legal Naturalism: A Marxist Theory of Law". Mind. 107 (428): 900–904. JSTOR 2659799.
- Reid, Richard (2011). "How Colonialism Preempted Modernity in Africa". The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History. 39 (3): 536–538. doi:10.1080/03086534.2011.598039. S2CID 161260102.
- Manai, Adel (Summer 2010). "How Colonialism Preempted Modernity in Africa". African Studies Quarterly. 11 (4): 162–163. ProQuest 759262557.
- Peel, J. D. Y. (2011). "OLUFEMI TAIWO, How Colonialism Preempted Modernity in Africa. Bloomington IN: Indiana University Press (pb $27.95 – 978 0 25322 130 0). 2010, 384 pp". Africa. 81 (3): 517–518. doi:10.1017/S0001972011000428. S2CID 197653219.
- Macola, Giacomo (2011). "Olúfémi Táíwó . How Colonialism Preempted Modernity in Africa . Bloomington : Indiana University Press . 2010 . Pp. xii, 352. Cloth $75.00, paper $27.95". The American Historical Review. 116 (2): 550–551. doi:10.1086/ahr.116.2.550.
- Ney, Stephen (2014). "Africa Must Be Modern: A Manifesto by Olúfémi Táiwò (review)". Research in African Literatures. 45 (4): 154–155. doi:10.2979/reseafrilite.45.4.154. Project MUSE 562674.
- Sillah, R. (2015). "Africa must be modern: A manifesto". African Affairs. 114 (455): 323–325. doi:10.1093/afraf/adv014.