Intellectuals and African development pretension and resistance in African politics
The essays in this book study responses to 'the African predicament'. They draw on a diversity of sources, including prominent writers such as Soyinka, Ngug̃i ̃and Achebe; military men in power; and students who defy repression. The volume suggests that intervention by international agenci...
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London, England :
Zed Books
©2006.
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| Colección: | Africa in the new millennium.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009422419506719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Predicament and response: an introduction / BjöRn Beckman and Gbemisola Adeoti
- Part 1. Intellectuals, writers and soldiers
- Chapter 1. Psychopaths in power: the collapse of the African dream in A Play of Giants / Olusegun, Adekoya
- Chapter 2. Re-establishing the basis of social order in Africa: a reflection on Achebe's reformist agenda and Ngugi's Marxist aesthetics / M. S. C. Okolo
- Chapter 3. Narrating the green gods: the (auto) biographies of Nigerian military rulers / Gbemisola Adeoti
- Part 2. Students, youths and people
- Chapter 4. Ambiguous transitions: mediating citizenship among youth in Cameroon / Jude Fokwang
- Chapter 5. Student radicalism and the national project: the Nigerian student movement / Björn Beckman
- Chapter 6. Transnational governance and the pacification of youth: civic education and disempowerment in Malawi / Harri Englund
- Chapter 7. Identity and knowledge production in the fourth generation / Nana Akua Anyidoho
- Contributors
- Index.
