A2: A Scholarly Poetical Science Discourse

A2: A Scholarly Poetical Science Discourse introduces the Poetical Method, a culturally grounded research process that fuses poetic expression with scholarly analysis. Rooted in Afrocentricity and African diasporic epistemologies, this method treats the poem as primary data and pairs it with a structured theoretical lens-such as linguistic imperialism, Pan-African thought, or political discourse analysis-to produce a unified scholarly artifact.

Author Ayo Sekai, Ph.D., draws from her background as a political scientist, linguist, and performance poet to model a repeatable process that captures lived experience, cultural meaning, and policy implications in one integrated form. Each chapter presents a poem alongside its corresponding scholarly discourse, demonstrating how to apply the method across themes of identity, education, governance, and public culture.

Designed for cross-disciplinary adoption-in Africana Studies, political science, education, cultural studies, and linguistics-A2 challenges Eurocentric separations of art and science. It equips scholars, graduate students, and educators with a replicable approach for generating, interpreting, and presenting research that is both intellectually rigorous and culturally resonant.