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Title African intellectuals and decolonization / edited by Nicholas M. Creary
Published Athens : Ohio University Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume)
Series Ohio University Research in international studies. Africa series ; no. 90
Research in international studies. Africa series ; no. 90.
Contents Representation and retrospection. We need a Mau Mau in Mississippi : Malcolm X's political lessons for today / George Hartley ; Nkrumah/Lumumba : representations of masculinity / Janet Hess ; Trauma and narrativity in Adichie's Half of a yellow sun : privileging Indigenous knowledge in writing the Biafran War / Marlene De La Cruz-Guzmán -- Decolonizing public spheres : conflicts and negotiations. The emergent self in South African Black consciousness literary discourse / T. Spreelin Macdonald ; The public life of reason : orchestrating debate in postapartheid South Africa / Lesley Cowling and Carolyn Hamilton ; Setting the agenda for decolonizing African media systems / Ebenezer Adebisi Olawuyi ; The African renaissance and discourse ownership : challenging debilitating discourses on Africa / Steve Odero Ouma -- Decolonizing knowledge : intellectual imperatives and epistemic dialogues. Decolonization and the practice of philosophy / Tsenay Serequeberhan ; Beyond gender centric models : restoring motherhood to Yoruba discourses of art and aesthetics / Oyeronke Oyewumi
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Postcolonialism -- Africa
African literature -- History and criticism
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
HISTORY -- General.
African literature
Intellectual life
Mass media
Postcolonialism
SUBJECT Africa -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
Africa -- Intellectual life -- 21st century
Africa -- In mass media. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001715
Subject Africa
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Creary, Nicholas M., editor.
LC no. 2011043454
ISBN 9780896802834
0896802833
0896804860
9780896804869