African Voices : : In Search of a Decolonial Turn / / / Siphamandla Zondi.

What does it mean to decolonize knowledge . in the university, the school, the library, the museum? In the context of this question, Siphamandla Zondi explores the contributions of African thinkers and actors to what Paul Tiyambe Zeleza calls recentering Africa in discussions about major African phe...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
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Place / Publishing House:Boulder : : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (346 p.)
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Other title:Frontmatter --
Table of Contents --
Foreword --
Dedication --
Acknowledgements --
Notes on Contributors --
Chapter 1 An Argument for Revisiting African Voices in Search of a Decolonial Turn --
Chapter 2 Mahmood Mamdani's Contribution to Rethinking Thinking on Africa --
Chapter 3 From North Africa to Europe --
Chapter 4 'The Camel Can Never See Its Own Hump' Metahumanism in the Fiction of Ibrahim al-Koni --
Chapter 5 A Dialogue of Civilisations --
Chapter 6 On African-American Consciousness of Africa --
Chapter 7 African Self-Reliance, Self-Determination, Unity and Repatriation --
Chapter 8 Africanity as Self-Assertion, Self-Affirmation and Self-Determination The Legacy of Archie Mafeje --
Chapter 9 (Re)Visiting Molefi Kete Asante's Theory of Afrocentricity --
Chapter 10 Ad Fontes --
Chapter 11 Wangari Maathai's Afrocentric Decolonial Environmentalist Struggle --
Chapter 12 Claude Ake's Critical Thinking about African Democracy --
Chapter 13 Daring African Resolutions to African Problems --
Chapter 14 The Manichean Structure and Frantz Fanon in Post-1994 South Africa --
Chapter 15 The Weapon of Theory --
Chapter 16 Isaac Bangani Tabata on the Purpose, Trajectory and Limitations of the Liberation Struggle --
Chapter 17 Adebayo Adedeji on Africa's Regional Integration and Self-Reliance --
Index
Summary:What does it mean to decolonize knowledge . in the university, the school, the library, the museum? In the context of this question, Siphamandla Zondi explores the contributions of African thinkers and actors to what Paul Tiyambe Zeleza calls recentering Africa in discussions about major African phenomena. His book is sure to stimulate further conversations about the many other African voices engaged in epistemic disobedience.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9780798305372
9783110783520
DOI:10.1515/9780798305372
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: Siphamandla Zondi.