Title Close to the sources : essays on contemporary African culture, politics, and academy / Abebe Zegeye, Maurice Vambe

Published New York : Routledge, 2011

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Description 1 online resource Series Routledge African studies ; 5 Routledge African studies ; 5. Contents Introduction: The assault on African cultures -- Notes on theorising Black diaspora in Africa -- On the postcolony and the vulgarisation of political criticism -- Rethinking the epistemic conditions of genocide in Africa -- African Indigenous knowledge systems -- Knowledge production and publishing in Africa -- Amilcar Cabral : national liberation as the basis of Africa's renaissances -- Amilcar Cabral and the fortunes of African literature -- Perspectives on Africanising educational curricula in Africa -- Voices from the fringes : some reflections on postcolonial South African writings Summary European and African works have found it difficult to move past the image of Africa as a place of exotica and relentless brutality. This book explores the status and critical relationship between politics, culture, literary creativity, criticism, education and publishing in the context of promoting Africa's Indigenous knowledge, and seeks to recover some of the sites where Africans continue to elaborate conflicting politics of self-affirmations. It both acknowledges and steps outside the protocols of analysis informed by nationalism, differentiating the forms that postcolonial theories have Notes "Simultaneously published in the UK"--Title page verso "First published in paperback 2009 by Unisa Press, University of South Africa"--Title page verso Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Cabral, Amílcar, 1924-1973 SUBJECT Cabral, Amílcar, 1924-1973 fast Subject Postcolonialism -- Africa Education -- Africa -- History -- 20th century Education -- Africa -- History -- 21st century African literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism African literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism African literature Civilization Education Intellectual life Politics and government Postcolonialism SUBJECT Africa -- Civilization -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001535 Africa -- Civilization -- 21st century Africa -- Politics and government -- 1960- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001573 Africa -- Intellectual life Subject Africa Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book Author Vambe, Maurice Taonezvi ISBN 0203807073 9780203807071

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