Augustine Farinola Black Heritage and Epistemic Pathways to Decolonising the Curriculum

Augustine Farinola is an international postgraduate research student from Nigeria (West Africa). He has featured in various international events such as All-African People's Conference 2018, University of Ghana, Legon. He is the founder of Afro-Think-It-Right (www.afrothinkitright.com )- a platform for talented young writers. He is a member of Lagos Studies Association, Nigeria, as well as The Institute of African and Diaspora Studies, University of Lagos Nigeria and The University of West Indies, Jamiaca. Before he began his doctoral studies at the Department of English Literature, he was a Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at Dominican University, Ibadan, Nigeria. Here at University of Birmingham, his PhD resaerch focuses on post phenomenological analysis of technological tools used for textual visualization and formalization of literary works (novels, poems, etc). His most read publication is "Human Conversation and the Evolution of Ethics in Kitcher's Pragmatic Naturalism' (2015)-a book chapter in E Imafidon (ed.) 'The Ethics of Subjectivity' published by Palgrave Macmillan, London. Feel free to follow up interesting articles on his blogs: www.paintmeblack.com and www.creativetechies.com.