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200 00$aIntellectuals and African development $epretension and resistance in African politics /$fedited by Bjorn Beckman and Gbemisola Remi Adeoti, editors
210   $aDakar ;$aLondon ;$aNew York $cCodesria Books in association with Zed Books$d2006
215   $a1 online resource (185 p.)
225 1 $aAfrica in the new millennium
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a1-84277-765-3 
311   $a1-84277-764-5 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aPredicament and response: an introduction / Bjo?Rn 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 / Bjo?rn 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.
330   $aThe essays in this book study responses to 'the African predicament'. They draw on a diversity of sources, including prominent writers such as Soyinka, Ngug?i ?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.
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