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Beginning from Marx's understanding of the relationship between philosophy and reality, this Introduction to the special edition of the Yoruba Studies Review explores the inevitable but complex relationship that exists between philosophy and its place. Specifically, it is grounded on the urgency of interrogating Nigeria's postcolonial realities in the light of Yorùbá philosophical insights that, among other things, enable a rethinking of postcolonial social practices especially as sites of identity, agency, knowledge, objectivity, and even of resistance and power. Premised on the fundamental assumption that Yorùbá philosophy constitutes a fundamental site of scholarship within which the task of understanding and reinventing the Nigerian state and societies can be achieved, the Introduction weaves this assumption into the analysis of the fourteen essays that explores Nigeria's postcolonial realities ranging from overpopulation, public (im)morality, ethnic conflict, injustice, and democratic deficit to environmental degradation, disability, depersonalization, youth culture, and a glaring disconnection between educational theory and practice.

Adire heißen in der Sprache des afrikanischen Volkes der Yoruba in einem besonderen Verfahren hergestellte Stoffe mit indigoblauen Mustern. Die ursprüngliche Indigogewinnung aus Pflanzen und das Verfahren des Blaudrucks wurde durch den industriellen Fortschritt verdrängt. In Nigeria werden aber auch heute noch Adire hergestellt, häufig als Stoffdruckkunstwerke und Quilts. Der Band berichtet von der Adire-Tradition, ihrer Gefährdung durch die industrielle Produktion und ihre Weiterführung als eigenständiges, häufig von Frauen ausgeübtes Kunsthandwerk bei dem bemerkenswert schöne Blaudruckstoffe entstehen. Weiter berichten Adire-Künstlerinnen und Künstler über ihren Alltag und ihre Arbeit. Zum Blaudruck in Europa und Japan erschien 1993 der Ausstellungskatalog "Ein blaues Wunder" (nicht im Besprechungsdienst angezeigt), sonst vorwiegend sehr verstreute Literatur zum Thema. (3) (LK/HL: Ittekkot)

Poetry

Poetry

Poetry

Abstract interview Deborah A. Miranda (Ohlone/Costanoan Esselen nation) is an important voice in contemporary Native literature, and her memoirBad Indians: A Tribal Memoir (2013) won multiple awards. This conversation was held in June 2015 in Mainz, Germany, in the context of a symposium during which she gave a reading at a local bookstore. Covering a range of topics on her composition and thematic foci of her memoir and most recent poetry collection, Raised by Humans (2015), the conversation also includes a discussion of two poems in this collection that are reprinted following the interview, in addition to three recent poems of hers.

Through an autoethnographic poetry manifesto, the author makes the case for poetry as political, poetry as feminist practice, poetry as social research and autoethnography, poetry as the personal that becomes the universal, and poetry as visionary activism. The use of personal poetry engages the political power of poetry to present embodied, nuanced, and myriad scenes of marginalized and stigmatized identities.