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African Political Thought of the Twentieth Century: A Re-engagement book cover

1st Edition

African Political Thought of the Twentieth Century A Re-engagement

Edited By Shiera el-Malik Copyright 2016
106 Pages
by Routledge

106 Pages
by Routledge

102 Pages
by Routledge
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This book focuses on African political thought, as it emerged in the context of and contributed to fundamental changes in world order during the twentieth century, and as it continues to speak to the present global condition. The six chapters form a set of close readings of 20th century African political theorists insofar as their work forms part of a conversation that Africa had with itself and... Read more

1. Introduction: African Political thought of the Twentieth Century: a Re-engagement
Shiera S. el-Malik and Branwen Gruffydd Jones

2. From Rupture to Revolution: Race, Culture and the Practice of Anti-colonial Thought
Branwen Gruffydd Jones

3. Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere’s Philosophy, Contribution, and Legacies
Ogenga Otunnu

4. Cinema is our ‘night school’: Appropriation, Falsification, and Dissensus in the art of Ousmane Sembe`ne
Sam Okoth Opondo

5. Interruptive Discourses: Le´opold Senghor, African Emotion and the poetry of politics
Shiera S. el-Malik

6. Steve Biko and a critique of Global Governance as White Liberalism
Isaac Kamola

7. Remembering Democracy: Anticolonial evocations and invocations of a disappearing norm
Siba N. Grovogui

Biography

Shiera S. el-Malik is an Associate Professor at DePaul University in Chicago. She teaches and writes in the area of colonialism and international political thought. Her work has appeared in Review of International Studies, African Identities, Journal of Contemporary African Thought, Irish Studies in International Affairs and in edited volumes. This book was originally published as a special issue of African Identities.

 

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