Toward the Decolonization of African Literature: African fiction and poetry and their critics
Author : Chinweizu
Publisher :
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 40,87 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Africa
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Author : Chinweizu
Publisher :
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 40,87 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Africa
ISBN :
Author : Chinweizu
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 50,68 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Africa
ISBN : 9780882581231
Author : Chinweizu
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 21,95 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Africa
ISBN : 9780882581231
Author : Chinweizu
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,5 MB
Release : 1980
Category :
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Author : Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 12,62 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0852555016
Ngugi wrote his first novels and plays in English but was determined, even before his detention without trial in 1978, to move to writing in Gikuyu.
Author : Andrew W.M. Smith
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 43,41 MB
Release : 2017-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1911307746
Looking at decolonization in the conditional tense, this volume teases out the complex and uncertain ends of British and French empire in Africa during the period of ‘late colonial shift’ after 1945. Rather than view decolonization as an inevitable process, the contributors together explore the crucial historical moments in which change was negotiated, compromises were made, and debates were staged. Three core themes guide the analysis: development, contingency and entanglement. The chapters consider the ways in which decolonization was governed and moderated by concerns about development and profit. A complementary focus on contingency allows deeper consideration of how colonial powers planned for ‘colonial futures’, and how divergent voices greeted the end of empire. Thinking about entanglements likewise stresses both the connections that existed between the British and French empires in Africa, and those that endured beyond the formal transfer of power.
Author : Chinweizu
Publisher :
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 29,25 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Africa
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Author : Mukoma Wa Ngugi
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 38,20 MB
Release : 2018-03-27
Category : History
ISBN : 047205368X
Engaging questions of language, identity, and reception to restore South African and diaspora writing to the African literary tradition
Author : Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò
Publisher : Hurst Publishers
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 42,26 MB
Release : 2022-06-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1787388859
Decolonisation has lost its way. Originally a struggle to escape the West’s direct political and economic control, it has become a catch-all idea, often for performing ‘morality’ or ‘authenticity’; it suffocates African thought and denies African agency. Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò fiercely rejects the indiscriminate application of ‘decolonisation’ to everything from literature, language and philosophy to sociology, psychology and medicine. He argues that the decolonisation industry, obsessed with cataloguing wrongs, is seriously harming scholarship on and in Africa. He finds ‘decolonisation’ of culture intellectually unsound and wholly unrealistic, conflating modernity with coloniality, and groundlessly advocating an open-ended undoing of global society’s foundations. Worst of all, today’s movement attacks its own cause: ‘decolonisers’ themselves are disregarding, infantilising and imposing values on contemporary African thinkers. This powerful, much-needed intervention questions whether today’s ‘decolonisation’ truly serves African empowerment. Táíwò’s is a bold challenge to respect African intellectuals as innovative adaptors, appropriators and synthesisers of ideas they have always seen as universally relevant.
Author : Chinweizu
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Page : pages
File Size : 28,89 MB
Release : 1989
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