03666nam 2200661 a 450 991034514010332120200520144314.01-350-22078-71-84813-148-81-281-21604-6978661121604710.5040/9781350220782(CKB)1000000000412383(EBL)332938(OCoLC)476136964(SSID)ssj0000180540(PQKBManifestationID)11177714(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000180540(PQKBWorkID)10149643(PQKB)11235203(MiAaPQ)EBC332938(CaBNVSL)9781350220782(EXLCZ)99100000000041238320061005d2006 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrIntellectuals and African development pretension and resistance in African politics /edited by Bjorn Beckman and Gbemisola Remi Adeoti, editorsDakar ;London ;New York Codesria Books in association with Zed Books20061 online resource (185 p.)Africa in the new millenniumDescription based upon print version of record.1-84277-765-3 1-84277-764-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Predicament and response: an introduction / BjöRn Beckman and Gbemisola Adeoti -- Part 1. Intellectuals, writers and soldiers -- Chapter 1. Psychopaths in power: the collapse of the African dream in A Play of Giants / Olusegun, Adekoya -- Chapter 2. Re-establishing the basis of social order in Africa: a reflection on Achebe's reformist agenda and Ngugi's Marxist aesthetics / M. S. C. Okolo -- Chapter 3. Narrating the green gods: the (auto) biographies of Nigerian military rulers / Gbemisola Adeoti -- Part 2. Students, youths and people -- Chapter 4. Ambiguous transitions: mediating citizenship among youth in Cameroon / Jude Fokwang -- Chapter 5. Student radicalism and the national project: the Nigerian student movement / Björn Beckman -- Chapter 6. Transnational governance and the pacification of youth: civic education and disempowerment in Malawi / Harri Englund -- Chapter 7. Identity and knowledge production in the fourth generation / Nana Akua Anyidoho -- Contributors -- Index.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.Africa in the new millennium.Political cultureAfricaInternational agenciesAfricaAfricaPolitics and government1960-AfricaSocial conditions1960-Political cultureInternational agencies320.9615.80bclBeckman Bjorn1938-242907Adeoti Gbemisola1764705Codesria.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910345140103321Intellectuals and African development4205775UNINA