The African Intelligentsia
Author | : Ali AlʼAmin Mazrui |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : AIDS (Disease) |
ISBN | : 9781569024447 |
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Author | : Ali AlʼAmin Mazrui |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : AIDS (Disease) |
ISBN | : 9781569024447 |
Author | : Philip Serge Zachernuk |
Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780813919089 |
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.
Author | : Ali AlʼAmin Mazrui |
Publisher | : Red Sea Press, U.S. |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : AIDS (Disease) |
ISBN | : 9781569024454 |
This book explores the multi-faceted effects of globalisation - both positive and negative - on both Africans living in Africa and on the global African diaspora. One of the themes covered is the so-called African Brain Drain (ABD) - wherein highly intelligent and qualified Africans are wont to leave the African continent. In a rare move, the authors also acknowledge the impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on ABD.
Author | : Toyin Falola |
Publisher | : University Rochester Press |
Total Pages | : 398 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781580461498 |
An examination of the attempt by Western-educated African intellectuals to create a 'better Africa' through connecting nationalism to knowledge, from the anti-colonial movement to the present-day. This book is about how African intellectuals, influenced primarily by nationalism, have addressed the inter-related issues of power, identity politics, self-assertion and autonomy for themselves and their continent, from the mid-nineteenth century onward. Their major goal was to create a 'better Africa' by connecting nationalism to knowledge. The results have been mixed, from the glorious euphoria of the success of anti-colonial movements to the depressingcircumstances of the African condition as we enter a new millennium. As the intellectual elite is a creation of the Western formal school system, the ideas it generated are also connected to the larger world of scholarship.This world is, in turn, shaped by European contacts with Africa from the fifteenth century onward, the politics of the Cold War, and the subsequent collapse of the Soviet Union. In essence, Africa and its elite cannot be fully understood without also considering the West and changing global politics. Neither can the academic and media contributions by non-Africans be ignored, as these also affect the ways that Africans think about themselves and their continent. Nationalism and African Intellectuals examines intellectuals' ambivalent relationships with the colonial apparatus and subsequent nation-state formations; the contradictions manifested within pan-Africanism and nationalism; and the relation of academic institutions and intellectual production to the state during the nationalism period and beyond. Toyin Falola is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin.
Author | : Thandika Mkandawire |
Publisher | : Zed Books |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2005-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781842776216 |
This title provides a study of the African intelligentsia in Africa and the diaspora.
Author | : P. Thandika Mkandawire |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Africa |
ISBN | : 9782869781450 |
This title provides a study of the African intelligentsia in Africa and the diaspora.
Author | : Fetson A Kalua |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 2019-08-28 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1000699722 |
This book examines the role of African intellectuals in the years since the end of colonialism, studying the contribution that has been made by such individuals, both to political causes and to development within Africa. Studying the concept of the "intellectual" within an African context, this book explores the responses of such individuals to crucial issues, such as cultural identity and knowledge production. The author argues that since the end of colonialism in Africa, various, often intertwining, factors, such as nationalism and co-option, have been used by black politicians or the political elites to muddle the roles and functions of black African intellectuals. Focusing on these confused roles and functions, the book posits that, over the years, most intellectuals in Africa have found the practice of "cheerleading" for a political cause more productive than making valuable contributions towards dynamic and progressive leadership in their countries. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of African studies, politics, and development studies.
Author | : Manfred Stanley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : Africa, East |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Martin Kilson |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2014-06-17 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0674416414 |
After Reconstruction, African Americans found themselves free, yet largely excluded from politics, higher education, and the professions. Drawing on his professional research into political leadership and intellectual development in African American society, as well as his personal roots in the social-gospel teachings of black churches and at Lincoln University (PA), the political scientist Martin Kilson explores how a modern African American intelligentsia developed in the face of institutionalized racism. In this survey of the origins, evolution, and future prospects of the African American elite, Kilson makes a passionate argument for the ongoing necessity of black leaders in the tradition of W. E. B. Du Bois, who summoned the “Talented Tenth” to champion black progress. Among the many dynamics that have shaped African American advancement, Kilson focuses on the damage—and eventual decline—of color elitism among the black professional class, the contrasting approaches of Du Bois and Booker T. Washington, and the consolidation of an ethos of self-conscious racial leadership. Black leaders who assumed this obligation helped usher in the civil rights movement. But mingled among the fruits of victory are the persistent challenges of poverty and inequality. As the black intellectual and professional class has grown larger and more influential than ever, counting the President of the United States in its ranks, new divides of class and ideology have opened in African American communities. Kilson asserts that a revival of commitment to communitarian leadership is essential for the continued pursuit of justice at home and around the world.
Author | : Martin Kilson |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2014-06-17 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0674283546 |
After Reconstruction, African Americans found themselves largely excluded from politics, higher education, and the professions. Martin Kilson explores how a modern African American intelligentsia developed amid institutionalized racism. He argues passionately for an ongoing commitment to communitarian leadership in the tradition of Du Bois.