Problematising The African Renaissance

Author : Eddy Maloka
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Problematising the African Renaissance written by Eddy Maloka and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These papers address aspects of the contentious intellectual and policy debate about the revival and revitalisation of Africa's political, economic and cultural situation - the so-called African Renaissance. The work considers the ideological antecedents of the concept of the African Renaissance; the African Renaissance as an imperative for survival; and how President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa and the ANC use the notion. The contributors discuss the ethical ramifications of globalisation; whether neo-liberalism can be considered a stable base for the African Renaissance; and the likelihood of genuine progress when there are many indicators that neo-liberalism is unleashing a kind of global apartheid. On this judgement, they draw parallels with the apartheid era in South Africa, and envisage a similar struggle for change. The contributors are five scholars including the Russian, Vladimir Shubin, and the book's editor Eddie Maloka.

Author : Washington A. Jalango Okumu
Publisher : Africa World Press
ISBN 13 : 9781592210138
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The African Renaissance written by Washington A. Jalango Okumu and published by Africa World Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intellectual tour de force, this bold, imaginative and provocative analysis of Africa's striving for political stability and economic growth demonstrates the potential for an African Renaissance today. One of Africa's leading intellectuals, Okumu analyses new initiatives such as NEPAD and discusses their potential role in Africa's economic welfare and future, while putting forward his own practical, policy oriented programme for an African Renaissance.

Author : Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465009468
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Something Torn and New written by Ngugi wa Thiong'o and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Novelist Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o has been a force in African literature for decades: Since the 1970s, when he gave up the English language to commit himself to writing in African languages, his foremost concern has been the critical importance of language to culture. Here, Ngugi explores Africa's historical, economic, and cultural fragmentation by slavery, colonialism, and globalization. Throughout this tragic history, a constant and irrepressible force was Europhonism: the replacement of native names, languages, and identities with European ones. The result was the dismemberment of African memory. Seeking to remember language in order to revitalize it, Ngugi's quest is for wholeness. Wide-ranging, erudite, and hopeful, this book is a cri de coeur to save Africa's cultural future.--From publisher description.

Author : Cheikh Anta Diop
Publisher : Red Sea Press(NJ)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Towards the African Renaissance written by Cheikh Anta Diop and published by Red Sea Press(NJ). This book was released on 1996 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Francis Adyanga Akena
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527524647
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historical and Contemporary Pan-Africanism and the Quest for African Renaissance written by Francis Adyanga Akena and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores what it means to be an African in a political context in which such people are called upon to re-assert the value of identifying as African in order to counter the effects of neo-colonialism. This includes affirming visions of what Africanness can offer in terms of people’s being-in-the-world. The book also discusses the benefits associated with working together as people of African ancestry, as well as the evocation of Ubuntu. It focuses on the possibility of revisiting the urge for African rebirth, and shows how the idea of Pan-Africanism helps to keep this dream alive. It engages with a range of ideas that build on the Pan-African philosophy for grounding African cultural and political rebirth, and will contribute to debunking the mindset that prompts many African youths and adults to risk it all for an apparently better life on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean.

Author : Malegapuru William Makgoba
Publisher : Mafube - Tafelberg
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Renaissance written by Malegapuru William Makgoba and published by Mafube - Tafelberg. This book was released on 1999 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains 30 essays based on papers and speeches delivered at the African Renaissance Conference in Johannesburg in 1998. The subject matter ranges from overviews of Africa's history to moral renewal, culture and education, political and economic transformation, science and technology, and the role of the media and telecommunications. All the contributions have one thing in common: a strong African focus and a commitment to attain prosperity for the continent in the new millennium.

Author : Allucia L. Shokane
Publisher : AOSIS
ISBN 13 : 177634166X
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Problematising Local Indigenous Community Research written by Allucia L. Shokane and published by AOSIS. This book was released on 2021-12-30 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deliberates on developments related to Knowledge Pathing: Multi-, Inter- and Trans-Disciplining in Social Sciences. The book explores the value of this vexed concept in advancing the course for multi-, inter- and trans-disciplinary perspectives, methodologies, theories and epistemologies of knowledge pathing. The discourse on knowledge pathing remains critical in advancing debates and dialogues in the humanities and social sciences spaces of research and studies. This book makes a significant contribution to the scholarly understanding of indigenous knowledge research by focusing on problematising local indigenous community research from Afro-sensed perspectives. The field of indigenous knowledge research and higher education in Africa is complex. Yet, across the continent, higher education has been the sector to least embrace Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) or regard indigenous science as a legitimate source of inspiration for the development of youth and local communities. Higher education institutions and local indigenous communities should thus generate knowledge and power through research. On the other hand, higher education researchers should use their research processes and skills for cross-beneficiation when engaging local indigenous communities. This book embodies the current discourse on decolonisation and the use of indigenous knowledge in research and is intended for research specialists in the field of indigenous knowledge systems.

Author : Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000476936
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Contested Idea of South Africa written by Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reflects on the complex and contested idea of South Africa, drawing on a wide range of disciplinary perspectives. Ever since the delineation of South Africa as a country, the many diverse groups of people contained within its borders have struggled to translate a mere geographical description into the identity of a people. Today the new struggles ‘for South Africa’ and ‘to become South African’ are inextricably intertwined with complex challenges of transformation, xenophobia, claims of reverse racism, social justice, economic justice, service delivery, and the resurgent decolonization struggles reverberating inside the universities. This book covers the genealogy of the idea of South Africa, exploring how the country has been conceived of by a broad group of actors, including the British, Afrikaners, diverse African nationalist traditions, and new formations such as the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), Black First Land First (BLF), and student formations (Rhodes Must Fall & Fees Must Fall). Over the course of the book, a broad range of themes are covered, including identity formation, modernity, race, ethnicity, indigeneity, autochthony, land, gender, intellectual traditions, poetics of South Africanness, language, popular culture, truth and reconciliation, and national development planning. Concluding with important reflections on how a colonial imaginary can be changed into a free and inclusive postcolonial nation-state, this book will be an important read for Africanist researchers from across the humanities and social sciences.

Author : Tope Omoniyi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317036557
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cultures of Economic Migration written by Tope Omoniyi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-16 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the processes of economic migration, the social conditions that follow it and the discourses that underlie research into it. Reflecting critically on economic migration and on the process of studying and creating knowledge about it, the contributors address the question of whether recent enquiries into modernity bring a newer and better comprehension of the nature of dislocation and movement, or whether these serve simply to replicate familiar modes of placing people and individuals. The book is organized into perspectives in and on specific continents - Europe, Asia and Africa - in order to explore notions regarding economic migration within and across regions as well as towards displacing the Eurocentrism of many studies of migration.

Author : P.H. Coetzee
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135884196
Total Pages : 813 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The African Philosophy Reader written by P.H. Coetzee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-03 with total page 813 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Divided into eight sections, each with introductory essays, the selections offer rich and detailed insights into a diverse multinational philosophical landscape. Revealed in this pathbreaking work is the way in which traditional philosophical issues related to ethics, metaphysics, and epistemology, for instance, take on specific forms in Africa's postcolonial struggles. Much of its moral, political, and social philosophy is concerned with the turbulent processes of embracing modern identities while protecting ancient cultures.