Research Catalog

Title

Close to the sources : essays on contemporary African culture, politics, and academy / by Abebe Zegeye and Maurice Vambe.

Author

Abebe Zegeye.

Publication

New York : Routledge, c2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

Vambe, Maurice Taonezvi.

Description

ix, 172 p.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Routledge African studies ; 5

Uniform Title

Routledge African studies ; 5.

Subjects

• Postcolonialism > Africa
• Africa > Civilization > 20th century
• Africa > Civilization > 21st century
• Education > Africa > History > 20th century
• African literature > 20th century > History and criticism
• Africa > Politics and government > 1960-
• African literature > 21st century > History and criticism
• Africa > Intellectual life
• Education > Africa > History > 21st century
• Cabral, Amílcar, 1924-1973

Note

• "Simultaneously published in the UK"--T.p. verso.
• "First published in paperback 2009 by Unisa Press, University of South Africa"--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-168) and index.

Contents

Introduction: The assault on African cultures -- Notes on theorising Black diaspora in Africa -- On the postcolony and the vulgarisation of political criticism -- Rethinking the epistemic conditions of genocide in Africa -- African indigenous knowledge systems -- Knowledge production and publishing in Africa -- Amilcar Cabral : national liberation as the basis of Africa's renaissances -- Amilcar Cabral and the fortunes of African literature -- Perspectives on Africanising educational curricula in Africa -- Voices from the fringes : some reflections on postcolonial South African writings.

ISBN

• 9780415895958 (hbk.)
• 0415895952 (hbk.)
• 9781868885404 (pbk.)
• 1868885402 (pbk.)
• 9780203807071 (ebook)
• 0203807073 (ebook)

LCCN

2011006085

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library