04045oam 2200805I 450 991078137330332120230725051736.01-136-65988-91-283-10303-697866131030311-136-65989-70-203-80707-310.4324/9780203807071 (CKB)2550000000032736(EBL)683991(OCoLC)721907177(SSID)ssj0000535124(PQKBManifestationID)11359078(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000535124(PQKBWorkID)10522216(PQKB)11712385(MiAaPQ)EBC683991(Au-PeEL)EBL683991(CaPaEBR)ebr10466412(CaONFJC)MIL310303(OCoLC)779171523(EXLCZ)99255000000003273620180706e20112009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrClose to the sources essays on contemporary African culture, politics and academy /Abebe Zegeye, Maurice VambeNew York :Routledge,2011.1 online resource (181 p.)Routledge African studies ;5"First published in paperback 2009 by Unisa Press, University of South Africa"--T.p. verso."Simultaneously published in the UK"--T.p. verso.1-138-09258-4 0-415-89595-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-168) and index.Front Cover; Close to the Sources; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Chapter One. Introduction: The Assault on African Cultures; Chapter Two. Notes on Theorising Black Diaspora in Africa; Chapter Three. On the Postcolony and the Vulgarisation of Political Criticism; Chapter Four. Rethinking the Epistemic Conditions of Genocide in Africa; Chapter Five. African Indigenous Knowledge Systems; Chapter Six. Knowledge Production and Publishing in Africa; Chapter Seven. Amilcar Cabral: National Liberation as the Basis of Africa's RenaissancesChapter Eight. Amilcar Cabral and the Fortunes of African LiteratureChapter Nine. Perspectives on Africanising Educational Curricula in Africa; Chapter Ten. Voices from the Fringes: Some Reflections on Postcolonial South African Writings; Bibliography; IndexEuropean 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 haveRoutledge African studies ;5.PostcolonialismAfricaEducationAfricaHistory20th centuryEducationAfricaHistory21st centuryAfrican literature20th centuryHistory and criticismAfrican literature21st centuryHistory and criticismAfricaCivilization20th centuryAfricaCivilization21st centuryAfricaPolitics and government1960-AfricaIntellectual lifePostcolonialismEducationHistoryEducationHistoryAfrican literatureHistory and criticism.African literatureHistory and criticism.960.3/2Zegeye Abebe.285185Vambe Maurice Taonezvi696164MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910781373303321Close to the sources3721557UNINA