ABSTRACT

In the closing decades of the last century, Professor Akínsolá Akìwowo, in a series of seminal papers, inaugurated what Jìmí Adésíná later dubbed ‘the Akíwowo project’. This project involved (1) showing that there are resources in an African culture – Yorùbá – for doing sociology in ways that are as good as the dominant tradition to be found in Western sociology; and (2) offering some original ideas regarding some explanatory framework that could enable us to make sense of social phenomena. In this essay, I advance the Akìwọwọ project by showing how, despite previous criticisms, Akìwọwọ remains a keen identifier of theoretical possibilities lurking in his Yorùbá heritage for doing not only sociology, but also philosophy and other theories with African idioms. I show how those criticisms enhance the practice of sociology in Africa that will be a powerful presence in the discipline and in the world of ideas.

摘要

在上个世纪的最后几十年，Akínsolá 教授；Akìwowo 在一系列开创性论文中开创了 Jìmí Adésíná 后来被称为“Akíwowo 项目”。该项目涉及（1）表明非洲文化中存在资源—— 你ùbá – 以与西方社会学中的主要传统一样好的方式研究社会学；(2) 提供一些关于一些解释性框架的独创性想法，使我们能够理解社会现象。在这篇文章中，我展示了 Akìwọwọ 项目如何推进 Akìwọwọ 项目，尽管之前受到批评，但 Akìwọwọ 仍然是潜伏在他的 Yorùbá 中的理论可能性的敏锐标识符。不仅研究社会学，还研究哲学和其他具有非洲习语的理论。我展示了这些批评如何增强非洲社会学的实践，这将在学科和思想世界中成为强大的存在。