African Intellectuals And The State Of The Continent

Author : Toyin Falola
Publisher : University Rochester Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 1580461492

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Nationalism and African Intellectuals by Toyin Falola Pdf

An examination of the attempt by Western-educated African intellectuals to create a 'better Africa' through connecting nationalism to knowledge, from the anti-colonial movement to the present-day. This book is about how African intellectuals, influenced primarily by nationalism, have addressed the inter-related issues of power, identity politics, self-assertion and autonomy for themselves and their continent, from the mid-nineteenth century onward. Their major goal was to create a 'better Africa' by connecting nationalism to knowledge. The results have been mixed, from the glorious euphoria of the success of anti-colonial movements to the depressingcircumstances of the African condition as we enter a new millennium. As the intellectual elite is a creation of the Western formal school system, the ideas it generated are also connected to the larger world of scholarship.This world is, in turn, shaped by European contacts with Africa from the fifteenth century onward, the politics of the Cold War, and the subsequent collapse of the Soviet Union. In essence, Africa and its elite cannot be fully understood without also considering the West and changing global politics. Neither can the academic and media contributions by non-Africans be ignored, as these also affect the ways that Africans think about themselves and their continent. Nationalism and African Intellectuals examines intellectuals' ambivalent relationships with the colonial apparatus and subsequent nation-state formations; the contradictions manifested within pan-Africanism and nationalism; and the relation of academic institutions and intellectual production to the state during the nationalism period and beyond. Toyin Falola is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin.

Author : Olayiwola Abegunrin,Sabella Abidde
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781527514256

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African Intellectuals and the State of the Continent by Olayiwola Abegunrin,Sabella Abidde Pdf

This festschrift is composed in honor of a distinguished scholar and Pan-Africanist, Professor Sulayman S. Nyang, whose career and intellectual pursuits spans more than 45 years—much of it at Howard University. Nyang’s contributions to African affairs transcend the scope of the academic world as he served as First Secretary and Head of Chancery of the Gambian Embassy in Saudi Arabia from 1975 to 1977, and consultant to the World Bank and United Nations agencies. In addition, Professor Nyang served as the President of the Interfaith Conference of Metropolitan Washington, DC, and a member of the boards of many academic journals, and organizations of Islamic Studies in the USA. He has published copiously on a variety of issues affecting continental Africans, Africans in the Diaspora, and beyond. He has published and collaborated on dozens of books and book chapters and more than 100 articles in referred journals.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-16
Category : Africa
ISBN : 1350218146

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African Intellectuals by Anonim Pdf

"This book constitutes a valuable, because so rare, exploration of the complex interface between African intellectuals and society, state and politics in the context of fundamental new departures like the restoration of multi-party politics, new economic horizons like NEPAD, and a renewed awareness of the need for Pan African cooperation."--Jacket.

Author : Natalie Edwards
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443851213

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The Contemporary Francophone African Intellectual by Natalie Edwards Pdf

The Contemporary Francophone African Intellectual examines the issues with which the contemporary African intellectual engages, the fields s/he occupies, her/his residence and perspective, and her/his relations with the State and the people. In an increasingly economically deprived Africa, in which some states are ruled by dictators, what chances do people have of becoming intellectuals, using their critical faculties to challenge hegemony, enacting the transformative power of ideas in a public forum? Do intellectuals who remain in Africa run the risk of being swallowed into a vortex of hagiography? What is the responsibility of the intellectual in the face of an event such as the Rwandan genocide? What influence does religion have upon the contemporary intellectual’s work? Is migration one of the only paths available for African intellectuals, a number of whom have been critiquing their continent from within Europe? This volume focuses on the intellectual’s engagement across literature, philosophy, journalism and cultural criticism. It contains studies of established writers and philosophers as well as new voices. An African writer and public intellectual describes her own experience in and out of Africa in one chapter; a Philosophy Professor discusses his intellectual trajectory in another. Overall, this timely volume, which includes analysis of the work of intellectuals from North, East, West and Central Africa, problematizes our current understandings of the intellectual legacy of Africa and opens up new avenues into this understudied area.

Author : Nicholas M. Creary
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780896804869

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African Intellectuals and Decolonization by Nicholas M. Creary Pdf

Decades after independence for most African states, the struggle for decolonization is still incomplete, as demonstrated by the fact that Africa remains associated in many Western minds with chaos, illness, and disorder. African and non-African scholars alike still struggle to establish the idea of African humanity, in all its diversity, and to move Africa beyond its historical role as the foil to the West. As this book shows, Africa’s decolonization is an ongoing process across a range of fronts, and intellectuals—both African and non-African—have significant roles to play in that process. The essays collected here examine issues such as representation and retrospection; the roles of intellectuals in the public sphere; and the fundamental question of how to decolonize African knowledges. African Intellectuals and Decolonization outlines ways in which intellectual practice can serve to de-link Africa from its global representation as a debased, subordinated, deviant, and inferior entity. Contributors Lesley Cowling, University of the Witwatersrand Nicholas M. Creary, University at Albany Marlene De La Cruz, Ohio University Carolyn Hamilton, University of Cape Town George Hartley, Ohio University Janet Hess, Sonoma State University T. Spreelin McDonald, Ohio University Ebenezer Adebisi Olawuyi, University of Ibadan Steve Odero Ouma, University of Nairobi Oyeronke Oyewumi, State University of New York at Stony Brook Tsenay Serequeberhan, Morgan State University

Author : Ama Mazama
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007-11-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135906597

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Africa in the 21st Century by Ama Mazama Pdf

Africa in the 21st Century: Toward a New Future brings together some of the finest Pan African and Afrocentric intellectuals to discuss the possibilities of a new future where the continent claims its own agency in response to the economic, social, political, and cultural problems which are found in every nation. The volume is structured around four sections: I. African Unity and Consciousness: Assets and Challenges; II. Language, Information, and Education; III. African Women, Children and Families; and IV. Political and Economic Future of the African World. In original essays, the authors raise the level of discourse around the questions of integration, pluralism, families, a federative state, and good governance. Each writer sees in the continent the potential for greatness and therefore articulates a theoretical and philosophical approach to Africa that constructs a victorious consciousness from hard concrete facts. This book will interest students and scholars of the history and politics of Africa as well as professional Africanists, Africologists, and international studies scholars who are inclined toward Africa.

Author : Fetson A Kalua
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000699722

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African Intellectuals in the Post-colonial World by Fetson A Kalua Pdf

This book examines the role of African intellectuals in the years since the end of colonialism, studying the contribution that has been made by such individuals, both to political causes and to development within Africa. Studying the concept of the "intellectual" within an African context, this book explores the responses of such individuals to crucial issues, such as cultural identity and knowledge production. The author argues that since the end of colonialism in Africa, various, often intertwining, factors, such as nationalism and co-option, have been used by black politicians or the political elites to muddle the roles and functions of black African intellectuals. Focusing on these confused roles and functions, the book posits that, over the years, most intellectuals in Africa have found the practice of "cheerleading" for a political cause more productive than making valuable contributions towards dynamic and progressive leadership in their countries. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of African studies, politics, and development studies.

Author : Philip Serge Zachernuk
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0813919088

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Colonial Subjects by Philip Serge Zachernuk Pdf

West African intellectuals have a long history of engaging with European intrusion by reflecting on their status as colonial and postcolonial subjects. Against the tendency to view this engagement as a confrontation between the modern west and traditional Africa, Philip S. Zachernuk argues that the interaction is far more fluid and diverse. Challenging the frequent denigration of western-educated Africans as a culturally barren "kleptocratic" elite, Colonial Subjects shows that they occupied a shifting medial position between colonizers and colonized. In the process they created a distinctive intellectual culture grounded in indigenous and European sources. Looking carefully at southern Nigeria from 1840 to 1960, Zachernuk locates intellectuals in the contours of their society as it changed from late precolonial times to the beginning of independence. He examines their engagement with British and Black Atlantic assumptions and assertions about Africa's place in the world. These ideas, shaped by the needs of others, became the often awkward material with which these intellectuals endeavored to construct their own image of their home continent. In this context, a group of Nigerian intellectuals created a dynamic intellectual tradition motivated by self-interest and marked by innovation, counter-invention, and imitation within the confines of the Atlantic world. At different times they opposed and supported the colonial state, adopted and rejected notions of racial destiny, and advocated free market principles, cooperative self-help, and state socialism. Colonial Subjects provides a historical framework for connecting these divergent ideas, thereby recovering the complexity of an intellectual tradition both colonial and modern.

Author : Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9782869785786

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Coloniality of Power in Postcolonial Africa by Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni Pdf

In this book the author examines the current state of postcolonial Africa with a focus on the "liberation predicament" and the crisis of epistemological, cultural, economic, and political dependence created by colonialism and coloniality.

Author : Thandika Mkandawire
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2005-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1842776215

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African Intellectuals by Thandika Mkandawire Pdf

This title provides a study of the African intelligentsia in Africa and the diaspora.

Author : M. Fobanjong
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781942876366

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State of the Continent by M. Fobanjong Pdf

What precisely is the state of the African continent today? Depending on ones perspective, the answer may either dwell on Africas recent economic and political accomplishments or focus on the long-standing single-story of failure, disaster and eternal dictatorships. This book provides a nuanced, forceful and balanced assessment of Africas political and economic performance since independence. While acknowledging Africas tragic pitfalls, dating to the transatlantic slave trade and colonialism, State of the Continent skillfully argues that theories associated with the dependency school are no longer enough to explain the continents failures in governance and economic performance. For a continent so richly blessed and endowed with both human and material resources, the blame for Africas lackluster performance falls squarely on its leadership. To get things right, Nkrumahs vision of the primacy of the political kingdom must be prioritized whereupon economic gains shall predictably, follow. In lucid and persuasive prose, this volume is an ideal book for scholars as well as students of international studies and African politics.

Author : Ali AlʼAmin Mazrui
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1978-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 0520032926

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Political Values and the Educated Class in Africa by Ali AlʼAmin Mazrui Pdf

Author : Bjorn Beckman,Gbemisola Adeoti
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2006-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1842777653

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Intellectuals and African Development by Bjorn Beckman,Gbemisola Adeoti Pdf

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Author : Mbukeni Herbert Mnguni
Publisher : Waxmann Verlag
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783830983477

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New African Intellectuals and New African Political Thought in the Twentieth Century by Mbukeni Herbert Mnguni Pdf

This book is purposely and deliberately entitled New African Intellectuals and New African Political Thought in the Twentieth Century. It encapsulates the recent debate about the political and cultural role played by the New African intellectuals in developing modern African political thought. The authors argue that the "New African Intellectuals" was a culturally and politically dominant movement of the twentieth century, despite the fact that it was suppressed and oppressed by white colonialism and racism. It was a political and cultural expression of the oppressed and disposed people. During its cultural and political splay the "New African Intellectuals" was preoccupied with three inseparable historical issues: forming the concept of the New African, constructing the foundations of African modernity, and formulating the principles of African Nationalism. Offering fresh insights that are both empirically and theoretically informed, this book illuminates the processes and consequences of the New African scholars and writers. The political contribution made by the New African intellectuals is traced from its origins in literature, music and language. The discussion concludes with an exploration of the dilemma faced by African languages as they are dominated by European languages. The authors argue that this dominance has resulted to the petrifaction and mummification of African languages because outstanding, even great African writers are not using them in relation to modern technological and linguistic experience. The authors believe that this broad-ranging book will be of interest to all those studying African politics and culture, and who are concerned with understanding modern African societies in the light of post-colonialism.

Author : Themba Sono
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105016858909

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Dilemmas of African Intellectuals in South Africa by Themba Sono Pdf

In the author's view, much of the thinking of black intellectuals has been narrowly focused. Here, he looks at the (often political) factors which have caused this Afrocentric approach, and warns against its continuation.