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.

Earning her Ph.D. in Political Science from Howard University (HBCU), Dr. Sekai operationalize her research specializations in Black Politics and International Relations to interrogate language structures through the frameworks of Linguistic Imperialism, Glottopolitics, and Raciolinguistic to disrupt public policy and politics that perpetuates structural and systematic racism, Dr. Sekai uses her platform to elevate Black Scholars' research that bridges the gap between the Global North and the Global South with inclusive diasporic narratives. Dr. Ayo Sekai is a Fulbright Specialist and a life member of multiple academic and practitioner associations. She serves on numerous boards and is an active scholar presenting and writing on topics that align with her research scholarly publications, including her recorded social justice poetry as a spoken word poetic activist and her book, A2: A Scholarly Poetical Science Discourse.