About book
This book situates the
socio-political thought of Agwuncha
Arthur Nwankwo within the paradigm of Africana Studies as a way of
encouraging more scholars in the field to pay more attention to contributions
from scholars based in Africa. At the same time, scholars in African Studies
should radicalize the field by embracing the revolutionary field of Africana
Studies to make all the respected African Studies Institute in the world to
evolve into Africana Studies Institutes. Nwankwo’s revolutionary theory and praxis
are challenging to academic scholars in Africa who appear to be satisfied with
quoting theorists from Europe without adequate originality in the development
of indigenous knowledge systems for the explanation and transformation of the
enduring conditions in Africa. This book differs from the previous tributes to
Nwankwo by his admirers in the sense that this is not a tribute but a
constructive critique and also because this book goes beyond the theoretical
and historical texts of Nwankwo to read his creative writings inter-textually.
Praise for book
“… critically incisive study of outstanding intellectuel
engagé Agwuncha Arthur Nwankwo by Biko Agozino, one of the most prolific
and accomplished scholars of his generation.”
(Herbert
Ekwe-Ekwe, Visiting Professor in Graduate
Programme of Constitutional Law, Universidade de Fortaleza, Brazil)
“The book is very informative,
lucid and analytical. It provides a rigorous analysis of one of Nigeria's and
Africa's foremost activist and revolutionary (Arthur Nwankwo) who challenged
the oppressive and unjust rule of military and civilian regimes in Nigeria.
Furthermore, the book elucidates the complexity of the Nigerian state and
the position of the Igbo Nation. The book is compulsory reading for all those interested
in both the Nigerian and African project.”
(Professor Akpan Hogan Ekpo,
Director General, West African Institute For Financial And Economic Management
(WAIFEM), Central Bank of Nigeria Learning Centre and Professor of Economics,
Department of Economics, University of Uyo, Akwa Ibom State)
“This is the first systematic study
of the ideas and praxis of Arthur Nwankwo. Biko took a studied and methodical
approach to Nwankwo's worldview and political practice in a critical and yet
fair minded way. It is an inspiring work in the realm of African political
thought which scholars and activists will find useful.”
(Professor Abubakar Momoh,
Director of the National Electoral Institute, Abuja, and Professor of Political
Science, Lagos State University, Lagos)
“The book Critical, Creative
and Centered Scholar-Activism: The Fourth Dimensionalism of Agwuncha Arthur
Nwankwo by Professor Agozino presents a brilliant,
refreshingly in-depth understanding of the works of the great African
intellectual, Arthur Nwankwo. The book provides uncommon insight into the
possible motivations and reasoning behind certain beliefs of Dr. Arthur Nwankwo
as espoused through some of his published works. Reading through Professor
Agozino's work should remind the present and future generation of Africans,
that life, to be well lived must be founded on values, principles and moral
convictions. Writing the book must clearly have been a sacrificial exercise
embarked upon for the sole purpose of bringing what should come to light, to
light. Generations to come owe a mountain of debt to professor Agozino for this
selfless act...”
(Dr. Chika Ezeanya, Assistant Professor of
African Business Studies, University of Rwanda, Kigali)
“It seems safe to say that
CRITICAL, CREATIVE AND CENTRED SCHOLAR ACTIVISM: THE FOURTH DIMENSIONALISM OF
AGWUNCHA ARTHUR NWANKWO will be one of the best social science books of the
year in Nigeria and may be of the decade. Biko, arguably one of the worlds
leading experts on sociology and Africana Studies, made a powerful case for
Afrocentricity: ‘AFROCENTRICITY … DOES NOT START FROM THE PREMISE THAT
EUROCENTRICISM IS ALWAYS WRONG BUT FROM THE FACT THAT WHATEVER IS THE FOCUS OF
ANY SCHOLARSHIP SHOULD BE PLACED AT THE CENTRE OF SUCH SCHOLARSHIP.’ By
this, Afrocentricity as an approach, is elevated to a global principle with
broader human implications.”
(Dr. Augustine Obelagu Agu, Retired Senior
Social Policy Officer, UNICEF, Independent Policy Consultant, Texas, USA)
“I enjoyed reading every single line
of your work; and I’m quite surprised that you had to produce this solid work
in 2 months. That’s an incredible turn out time for an incisive scholarly work
of this nature. It’s a big lesson for me who has been playing around endlessly
with two manuscripts for years. … Your big brain is, therefore, also partly
responsible for the global warming.”
(Dr.
Ifeanyi Ezeonu, Professor of
Sociology, Brock University, Canada)
About Author
Biko Agozino
is a Professor of Sociology and Africana Studies, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg,
VA. He is the author of the following books - Today Na Today (Poetry), 2013;
The Debt Penalty (Play), 2010; ADAM: Africana Drug-Free Alternative Medicine,
2006; Counter-Colonial Criminology, 2003; Pan African Issues in Crime and
Justice (co-edited), 2004; Nigeria: Democratising a Militarised Civil Society,
(co-authored) 2001; Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Migration Research
(edited), 2000; and Black Women and the Criminal Justice System, 1997. Also
Director-Producer-Editor of Reparative Justice, 30 minutes, color, African
Independent Television, Lagos, Nigeria, 2002; Director-Producer of CLR James:
The Black Jacobins Sociology Series, 2008; Director-Producer, 'Shouters and the
Control Freak Empire', Winner of the Best International Short Documentary,
Columbia Gorge Film Festival, USA, 2011. Editor-In-Chief of the African Journal
of Criminology and Justice Studies, and Series Editor, Ashgate Publishers
Interdisciplinary Research Series in Ethnic, Gender and Class Relations. Ph.D.
(Edinburgh); MPhil. (Cambridge); B.Sc. First Class Hons (Calabar).
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Publishers Contact
Fourth Dimension
Publishing Co. Ltd, House 8, First Avenue, City Layout, New Haven, Enugu, Enugu
State, Nigeria. Phone: +2348035511487; +2348055790009; email: chairman@arthurnwankwo.comor Arthur.nwankwo@yahoo.com www.arthurnwankwo.com
Author Contact
Dr. Biko Agozino, Professor of
Sociology and Africana Studies, Virginia Tech, 225 Stanger Street, 562 McBryde
Hall, Blacksburg, VA 24073; Phone: 1-540-231-7699 (Office); Fax:
1-540-231-3860. Email: bagozino@gmail.com or agozino@vt.edu blogsite:www.massliteracy.blogspot.com
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