Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò

Olufemi Taiwo is a professor at the Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, U.S.A. He was educated in Nigeria and Canada. He has taught at universities in Nigeria, Germany, S. Korea, and Jamaica. He has published on and continues to be agitated by pedagogical issues, especially that of diversifying the curriculum. He is the author of Legal Naturalism: A Marxist Theory of Law (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996) [Chinese Translation, 2013], How Colonialism Preempted Modernity in Africa (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010), and Africa Must Be Modern: A Manifesto (Ibadan: Bookcraft, 2012) [American Edition, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2014].

Publications

Measuring and Analyzing Informal Learning in the Digital Age
Measuring and Analyzing Informal Learning in the Digital Age
Olutoyin Mejiuni, Patricia Cranton, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò. © 2015. 335 pages.
In the twenty-first century, learning—and the definition of education—is changing. New digital, online, and social tools have the ability to transform the classroom and engage...
Looking Back and Looking Forward
Looking Back and Looking Forward
Patricia Cranton, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Olutoyin Mejiuni. © 2015. 21 pages.
This chapter reviews the common themes that run through the volume. The authors review the relationship between informal learning and adult and higher education and how the...