IAS, UI collaborates with WATJC for Proactive Community Nutrition in Conversation with Extalgia and Wombiture (September 5, 2024)
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On September 5, 2024, at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan, an interactive research conversation was held among Diaspora Studies, Community Nutrition, and African Literature.
On September 5, 2024, at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan, an interactive research conversation was held among Diaspora Studies, Community Nutrition, and African Literature. The theme of the conversation, “Proactive Community Nutrition in Conversation with Extalgia and Wombiture”, featured Professor Senayon Olaoluwa, Professor Folake Samuel and Professor Sola Olorunyomi in their different emerging theories and scholarship.
The conversation exemplifies and captures the interdisciplinarity of academic research and the quality of outcomes that can emerge from such engagements. Sola Olorunyomi’s “Wombiture” which emphasizes the return to foundational epistemologies, in simple terms, “from the earliest beginning” and not from the middle of narratives found spaces and relevance in the community nutrition research of Folake Samuel which is also emphasizes the consumption of locally produced food and in a more balanced diet system. These two research fields found relevance in the “Extalgia” theory of Senayon Olaoluwa which is focused on the conditions of the left behind particularly in the contexts of migration of persons and objects.