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Category : Africa
Languages : en
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Conference on African Intellectual Reaction to Western Culture: Preliminary meeting for a Conference on African Intellectual Reactions to Western Culture
Author: Conference on African Intellectual Reaction to Western Culture
Author: Conference on African Intellectual Reaction to Western Culture: Fang representations under acculturations
Author: Conference on African Intellectual Reaction to Western Culture: The elite response to the influence of Western culture: West Africa, 1800-1940
Author: Conference on African Intellectual Reaction to Western Culture: The failure of the Xhosa oral tradition
Author: Conference on African Intellectual Reaction to Western Culture: The Sierra Leone Creoles, 1870-1900
Author: Conference on African Intellectual Reaction to Western Culture: The Senegalese urban elite, 1900-1945
Author: AFRICA AND THE WEST- INTELLECTUAL RESPONSES TO EUROPEAN CULTURE- BASED ON A CONFERENCE SPONSORED BY THE JOINT COMMITTEE ON AFRICAN STUDIES OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL AND THE AMERICAN COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOCIETIES.
Author: Colonial Subjects
Author: Philip Serge ZachernukPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813919089
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
West African intellectuals have a long history of engaging with European intrusion by reflecting on their status as colonial and postcolonial subjects. Against the tendency to view this engagement as a confrontation between the modern west and traditional Africa, Philip S. Zachernuk argues that the interaction is far more fluid and diverse. Challenging the frequent denigration of western-educated Africans as a culturally barren "kleptocratic" elite, Colonial Subjects shows that they occupied a shifting medial position between colonizers and colonized. In the process they created a distinctive intellectual culture grounded in indigenous and European sources. Looking carefully at southern Nigeria from 1840 to 1960, Zachernuk locates intellectuals in the contours of their society as it changed from late precolonial times to the beginning of independence. He examines their engagement with British and Black Atlantic assumptions and assertions about Africa's place in the world. These ideas, shaped by the needs of others, became the often awkward material with which these intellectuals endeavored to construct their own image of their home continent. In this context, a group of Nigerian intellectuals created a dynamic intellectual tradition motivated by self-interest and marked by innovation, counter-invention, and imitation within the confines of the Atlantic world. At different times they opposed and supported the colonial state, adopted and rejected notions of racial destiny, and advocated free market principles, cooperative self-help, and state socialism. Colonial Subjects provides a historical framework for connecting these divergent ideas, thereby recovering the complexity of an intellectual tradition both colonial and modern.
African Intellectuals and Decolonization
Author: Nicholas M. CrearyPublisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0896804860
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
Decades after independence for most African states, the struggle for decolonization is still incomplete, as demonstrated by the fact that Africa remains associated in many Western minds with chaos, illness, and disorder. African and non-African scholars alike still struggle to establish the idea of African humanity, in all its diversity, and to move Africa beyond its historical role as the foil to the West. As this book shows, Africa’s decolonization is an ongoing process across a range of fronts, and intellectuals—both African and non-African—have significant roles to play in that process. The essays collected here examine issues such as representation and retrospection; the roles of intellectuals in the public sphere; and the fundamental question of how to decolonize African knowledges. African Intellectuals and Decolonization outlines ways in which intellectual practice can serve to de-link Africa from its global representation as a debased, subordinated, deviant, and inferior entity. Contributors Lesley Cowling, University of the Witwatersrand Nicholas M. Creary, University at Albany Marlene De La Cruz, Ohio University Carolyn Hamilton, University of Cape Town George Hartley, Ohio University Janet Hess, Sonoma State University T. Spreelin McDonald, Ohio University Ebenezer Adebisi Olawuyi, University of Ibadan Steve Odero Ouma, University of Nairobi Oyeronke Oyewumi, State University of New York at Stony Brook Tsenay Serequeberhan, Morgan State University