To commemorate Pius Adesanmì’s exemplary life in the service of his country and continent, Kwara State University (KWASU), Malete, is organising a one-day symposium.
The major event at the opening of the university’s 2019 Abiola Irele Seminar, to bring together people interested in not only his public intellectual work but also in his academic, original interventions in poetry, literary history, and literary theory. The 2019 Abiola Irele Seminar holds from Monday July 1 to Friday July 12, 2019 with the theme “Researching the Global from Local Knowledge Productions”.
Prof. Adesanmì was to be named the Academic Director of the seminar before his untimely death. The Pius Adesanmi symposium will welcome proposals that focus on how considerations that derive from locations—national, ethnic, continental, linguistic—are implicated in global media positioning of individuals and societies in the contemporary world. The most rigorous engagements with Professor Adesanmi’s work will be published in Savannah Review, KWASU’s Journal of Studies in the Humanities, edited by Professor Adeleke AdeìeÌòkoòì, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.
Adesanmi during his lifetime was noted for his relentless condemnation of ineffectual leadership in the African continent. He was even more persistent in his condemnation of acquiescent followership. His various public and academic writings about the state of the continent revealed a central concern for instituting within Africa globally acceptable measures of the good society. In countless writing and speeches that range from history to literature, from popular culture to high politics, from economics to higher education, Adesanmì sought enduring solutions to difficulties, mundane or recondite, of living in African.
