LEADER 04045oam 2200805I 450 001 9910781373303321 005 20230725051736.0 010 $a1-136-65988-9 010 $a1-283-10303-6 010 $a9786613103031 010 $a1-136-65989-7 010 $a0-203-80707-3 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203807071 035 $a(CKB)2550000000032736 035 $a(EBL)683991 035 $a(OCoLC)721907177 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000535124 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11359078 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000535124 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10522216 035 $a(PQKB)11712385 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC683991 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL683991 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10466412 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL310303 035 $a(OCoLC)779171523 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000032736 100 $a20180706e20112009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aClose to the sources $eessays on contemporary African culture, politics and academy /$fAbebe Zegeye, Maurice Vambe 210 1$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2011. 215 $a1 online resource (181 p.) 225 1 $aRoutledge African studies ;$v5 300 $a"First published in paperback 2009 by Unisa Press, University of South Africa"--T.p. verso. 300 $a"Simultaneously published in the UK"--T.p. verso. 311 $a1-138-09258-4 311 $a0-415-89595-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 157-168) and index. 327 $aFront 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 Renaissances 327 $aChapter 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; Index 330 $aEuropean and African works have found it difficult to move past the image of Africa as a place of exotica and relentless brutality. This book explores the status and critical relationship between politics, culture, literary creativity, criticism, education and publishing in the context of promoting Africa's indigenous knowledge, and seeks to recover some of the sites where Africans continue to elaborate conflicting politics of self-affirmations. It both acknowledges and steps outside the protocols of analysis informed by nationalism, differentiating the forms that postcolonial theories have 410 0$aRoutledge African studies ;$v5. 606 $aPostcolonialism$zAfrica 606 $aEducation$zAfrica$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aEducation$zAfrica$xHistory$y21st century 606 $aAfrican literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAfrican literature$y21st century$xHistory and criticism 607 $aAfrica$xCivilization$y20th century 607 $aAfrica$xCivilization$y21st century 607 $aAfrica$xPolitics and government$y1960- 607 $aAfrica$xIntellectual life 615 0$aPostcolonialism 615 0$aEducation$xHistory 615 0$aEducation$xHistory 615 0$aAfrican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAfrican literature$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a960.3/2 700 $aZegeye$b Abebe.$0285185 701 $aVambe$b Maurice Taonezvi$0696164 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910781373303321 996 $aClose to the sources$93721557 997 $aUNINA