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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458860303321

Autore

Vakunta Peter W

Titolo

Cry my beloved Africa [[electronic resource] ] : essays on the postcolonial aura in Africa / / Peter Wuteh Vakunta

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Mankon, Bamenda, Cameroon, : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG

[Mich.], : Distributed in N. America by Michigan State University Press, 2008

ISBN

1-283-19805-3

9786613198051

9956-715-86-7

9956-715-98-0

9956-615-84-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (98 p.)

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Africa History 20th century

Africa History 1960-

Africa Politics and government 1960-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 82-86).

Nota di contenuto

The trouble with Africa -- A nation at risk -- A celebration of diversity -- False start in post-colonial Africa -- It's a battlefield -- Discourse on gender in Africa -- African time and other Africanisms -- Manufacturing the illusion of freedom -- Myth about Africa's collective amnesia -- A continent's dirty linen -- Phantoms of the past -- Path to rebirth -- Hitler in Africa -- Aporia : Africa's demo-dictators -- Africa's tsunami -- Rite of passage or unsafe ordeal.

Sommario/riassunto

Cry My Beloved Africa is a compendium of essays having as locus the continent of Africa. It comprises insightful observations on the politics, governmental systems, political economy, cultural practices, educational systems and natural phenomena that impact on the lives of Africans. True to the tradition of French novelist Stendhal, the author intends this work to serve as a mirror that reflects the day-to-day living of the different peoples that inhabit the fifty-three nation-states



in Africa. It is directed to contemporary Africa and to the relationship between Africa and the rest of the glo