Pius Adesanmi

Pius Adesanmi (27 February 1972 – 10 March 2019) was a Nigerian-Canadian professor, writer, literary critic, and satirist. He was the author of the award-winning book You're Not a Country, Africa! and a prominent public intellectual who advocated for good governance in Nigeria. Quotes As a public intellectual, my only job is to think for Nigeria and Africa. Interview retrospective on the role of African intellection. I think you are also super-imposing the typical Nigerian scenario of cross-over intellection on the whole of Africa. Discussing historical liberators and political actors across the continent. When the hand that holds the feeding bottle to your mouth says it is tired, the thing to do is to start an urgent reflection over the existence of alternative feeding bottles hitherto neglected. Analyzing regional political dynamics and structural dependencies in Nigerian federalism. The storyteller appeals to the mind and appeals ultimately to generations and generations and generations. From his documented lectures and reflections on the socio-cultural mission of African literature. For Africa, the poem should read autochthonous people clutching alien gods. I have been a very close observer of the wind of Pentecostalism blowing over the continent If we define the political in very generous, broad terms, yes there is always an intermesh between the religious and the political. Don't forget that Christianity's entrance into Africa was intensely political insofar as the missionarization of the continent was the precursive event to formal colonization. I assume that by our educational systems you are talking exclusively about the continent. Language is not the most pan-African step our educational systems in Africa can or should take. It should begin by enhancing processes of African co-presence in University classrooms throughout the continent. External links Category:1972 births Category:2019 deaths Category:Nigerian writers