African Political Thought of the Twentieth Century: A Re-Engagement

ISBN-13: 9781138309401 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 96 str.

Shiera S. El-Malik

Opis

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. It was originally published as a special issue of African Identities.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: African Political thought of the Twentieth Century: a Re-engagement 2. From Rupture to Revolution: Race, Culture and the Practice of Anti-colonial Thought 3. Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere’s Philosophy, Contribution, and Legacies 4. Cinema is our ‘night school’: Appropriation, Falsification, and Dissensus in the art of Ousmane Sembe`ne 5. Interruptive Discourses: Le´opold Senghor, African Emotion and the poetry of politics 6. Steve Biko and a critique of Global Governance as White Liberalism 7. Remembering Democracy: Anticolonial evocations and invocations of a disappearing norm

O autorze

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.