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Title Intellectuals and African development : pretension and resistance in African politics / Björn Beckman & Gbemisola Adeoti, editors
Published Dakar, Senegal : CODESRIA ; London ; New York : in association with Zed Books ; Pretoria, South Africa : in association with UNISA Press ; New York : Distributed in the United States by Palgrave Macmillan, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (178 pages)
Series Africa in the new millennium
Africa in the new millennium.
Contents 6 -- Transnational governance and the pacification of youth: civic education and disempowerment in Malawi7 -- Identity and knowledge production in thefourth generation; Contributors; Index
Summary The essays in this book study responses to?the African predicament?. They draw on a diversity of sources, including prominent writers such as Soyinka, Ngug̃i ̃and Achebe; military men in power; and students who defy repression. The volume suggests that intervention by international agencies claiming to promote?democracy? and to?empower the youth? may only reinforce authoritarian attitudes and structures. Instead, it gives voice to the outrage, ridicule, revolutionary ardour and reformist caution of those directly involved. It also exposes the shallow pretences of those in power, and conclud
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Political culture -- Africa.
International agencies -- Africa
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- General.
International agencies
Political culture
Politics and government
Social conditions
Politieke situatie.
SUBJECT Africa -- Politics and government -- 1960- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001573
Africa -- Social conditions -- 1960- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001576
Subject Africa
Afrika.
Form Electronic book
Author Beckman, Björn, 1938-
Adeoti, Gbemisola.
Codesria
ISBN 9781848131484
1848131488