Sanya Osha

Sanya Osha holds a PhD. in Philosophy and he is currently a SARChI research fellow at the Institute of Economic Research on Innovation, Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria. He has published extensively on anthropology, the politics of the West African region and he is also studying political realities in Southern Africa.

As an academic, he has held the following research positions; overseas research fellow, National Research Foundation of South Africa (NRF) and fellow, Centre for Rhetoric Studies, University of Cape Town, 2002; visiting scholar, Smith College, U.S.A., 2003; visiting scholar, University of Groningen, The Netherlands, September to November, 2003; visiting fellow, African Studies Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands, 2005. In addition, he was a post-doctoral scholar at the University of Kwa-Zulu-Natal, Durban for almost three years. His recent publications include, Kwasi Wiredu and Beyond: The Text, Writing and Thought in Africa (2005) and Ken Saro-Wiwa’s Shadow: Politics, Nationalism and the Ogoni Protest Movement(2007).