Research Catalog

Title

African Voices : in search of a decolonial turn / Siphamandla Zondi (ed).

Publication

Pretoria, South Africa : Africa institute of South Africa, [2021]

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Additional Authors

• Zondi, Siphamandla
• Africa Institute of South Africa, issuing body.

Description

xvi, 344 pages; 25 cm

Summary

"This book discusses the contributions of African thinkers and actors to what Paul Tiyambe Zeleza calls recentering Africa in discussions about major African phenomena. It makes an input into ongoing debates about: what it means to decolonise knowledge; the university; the school; the library; the archive; and the museum. The book responds to the need for Africa-centred literature to be used by those who teach, discuss and implement the decolonization and Africanisation of knowledge, power and being. The book hopes to stimulate further conversations about many other African voices engaged in epistemic disobedience."--Back cover.

Subject

• Knowledge, Theory of > Africa
• Decolonization > Africa
• Self-determination, National > Africa
• Education, Higher > Social aspects > Africa
• Decolonization
• Education, Higher > Social aspects
• Knowledge, Theory of
• Africa

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

An argument for revisiting African voices in search of a decolonial turn -- Mahmood Mamdani's contribution to rethinking thinking on Africa -- From North Africa to Europe: almohadism, Ibn Rushd and rationalising reform -- 'The camel can never see its own hump': metahumanism in the fiction of Ibrahim al-Koni -- A dialogue of civilisations: a decolonial reading of Chinua Achebe -- On African-American consciousness of Africa: reading Bernard Magubane's The ties that bind -- African self-reliance, self-determination, unity and repatriation: reflections on Marcus Garvey -- Africanity as self-assertion, self- affirmation and self-determination: the legacy of Archie Mafeje -- [Re]Visiting Molefe Kete Asante's theory of afrocentricity -- Ad fontes: the divergent African political aesthetics of Steve Biko, Šdar Senghor and Taha Hussein -- Wangari Maathai's afrocentric decolonial environmentalist struggle -- Claude Ake's critical thinking about African democracy -- Daring African resolutions to African problems insight from Ali Mazrui -- The Manichean structure and Fanon in post-1994 South Africa -- The weapon of theory some -- IB Tabata on the purpose, trajectory and limitations of the liberation struggle -- Adebayo Adedeji on Africa's regional integration and self-reliance.

Call Number

ReCAP 23-8731

ISBN

• 9780798305310
• 0798305312

LCCN

2022494047

OCLC

1264146460

Title

African Voices : in search of a decolonial turn / Siphamandla Zondi (ed).

Publisher

Pretoria, South Africa : Africa institute of South Africa, [2021]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Zondi, Siphamandla, editor.

Africa Institute of South Africa, issuing body.

Research Call Number

ReCAP 23-8731