[PDF] Journey To Independence And After Dr J B Danquahs Letters eBook

Author : Toyin Falola
Publisher : University Rochester Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 48,78 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9781580461498

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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 : Bruce Gilley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 50,24 MB
Release : 2021-09-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1684512174

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"The Last Imperialist: Sir Alan Burns' Epic Defense of the British Empires studies Sir Alan Burns' career and his arguments in defense of European colonialism. Bruce Gilley describes Burns' intellectual and policy battles with opponents of colonialism and his efforts to slow the decolonization process"--

Author : Martin Minogue
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 48,58 MB
Release : 1974-09-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780521204262

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Monograph comprising readings on African nationalism and political ideologies in Africa south of Sahara - comprises selected documents and statements by politicians, etc., followed by biographic notes. References. Biographys African politicians.