Ifa

Essays 2

• Where Power Lives: Scripturalization, the Invention of \"Religion,\" and the African Burden of Comparison

  Africa did not ask to be compared. This essay argues that \"religion\" was made to carry that burden, and that power in African religious…

• Whoever Writes the Code Writes the Canon: Technology, Scripturalization, and the African Question of Authorship

  From the stone tablet to the smartphone timeline, every new medium has made some people authors and everyone else readers. For Africa, th…