African Intellectuals and Decolonization.

Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: Representation and Retrospection -- We Need a Mau Mau in Mississippi: Malcolm X's Political Lessons for Today -- Nkrumah/Lumumba: Representations of Masculinity -- Trauma and Narrativity in Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun: Privileging Indigenous Knowledge in Writing the Biafran War -- Part II: Decolonizing Public Spheres: Conflicts and Negotiations -- The Emergent Self in South African Black Consciousness Literary and Discourse -- The Public Life of Reason: Orchestrating Debate in Postapartheid South Africa -- Setting the Agenda for Decolonizing African Media Systems -- The African Renaissance and Discourse Ownership: Challenging Debilitating Discourses on Africa -- Part III: Decolonizing Knowledge: Intellectual Imperatives and Epistemic Dialogues -- Decolonization and the Practice of Philosophy -- Beyond Gendercentric Models: Restoring Motherhood to Yoruba Discourses of Art and Aesthetics -- Contributors -- Index.

Decades after independence for most African states, the struggle for decolonization is still incomplete, as demonstrated by the fact that Africa remains associated in many Western minds with chaos, illness, and disorder.

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