Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí e as filosofias esc(r)utáveis da cosmologia e instituições socioculturais Oyó-Iorubás

Abstract

This article seeks to listen to the thought of the yorùbá philosopher Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí, that changes our understanding of African cultures, notably in relation to race and gender. Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí by pointing out that prior to British colonization the Ọ̀yọ́-Yorùbá society of southwestern Nigeria was not organized around hierarchies arising from the di-vision by genderified body, but of seniority, presents us with Ọ̀yọ́-Yorùbá cosmology and sociocultural institutions based on the world-sense of who is not permanently and indefinitely older or younger than another person. In this sense, bringing the thought of Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí to the exercise of teaching philosophy contributes to thinking about it beyond the historical transmission of philosophy and the ideas of Western thinkers, thus addressing African beings and knowledge that flow into traditions, cosmologies and sociocultural institutions present in Brazil, of which teachers and students are heirs.