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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791569703321

Autore

Fonlon Bernard Nsokika <1924-1986.>

Titolo

Genuine intellectuals [[electronic resource] ] : academic and social responsibilities of universities in Africa / / Bernard Nsokika Fonlon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Mankon, Bamenda, Cameroon, : Langaa RPCIG, 2009

ISBN

1-283-19788-X

9786613197887

9956-715-42-5

9956-715-54-9

9956-615-38-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (173 p.)

Disciplina

378.6

Soggetti

Universities and colleges - Sociological aspects - Africa

Education, Higher

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously published as: To every African freshman, 1969. The genuine intellectual, 1978.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; The Genuine Intellectual; Prolegomena; The Credo; Preface to the First Edition; Chapter One - The University: Birth and Growth; Chapter Two - Conservation and Reorganisation; Chapter Three - Nature of Studies; Chapter Four - The Scientific Method; Chapter Five - Approach to History and Literature; Chapter Six - Philosophy: A Categorical Imperative; Chapter Seven - The Genuine Intellectual; Chapter Eight - Dedication to the Common Weal; Chapter Nine - Tributes to Professor Dr. Bernard Fonlon; Books and Articles by Bernard Fonlon

Books and Articles on Fonlon Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

This book, slim as it looks, took Bernard Nsokika Fonlon the best part of five laborious years to write 1965-9 inclusive. He writes: ""I was penning away as students in France were up in arms against the academic Establishment, and their fury almost toppled a powerful, prestigious, political giant like General de Gaulle. In America students, arms in hand, besieged and stormed the buildings of the University Administration, others blew up lecture halls in Canada - the student



revolt, a very saeva indignatio, was in paroxysm. But in England (save in the London School of Economics where students