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The meaning of Mandela : a literary and intellectual celebration / edited by Xolela Mangcu ; foreword by Desmond Tutu.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mandela, Nelson, 1918-2013.
- Mandela, Nelson.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 40 pages : 1 illustration ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cape Town : HSRC Press, 2006.
- Summary:
- This lively, engaging and witty collection of lectures brings together the renowned African and African-American scholars - Cornel West, Henry Louis Gates Jr and Wole Soyinka - to reflect on the public meaning of the iconic Nelson Mandela. Any single one of these authors would have been a pleasure to read in his own right, but to have all three of them enjoined in this common intellectual effort is a compelling experience.
- In this one book you will find the profound philosophical and political interpretations of Cornel West, the story-telling genius and witticism of Henry Louis Gates Jr, and the wisdom of Africa's grand man of letters and the first person of African descent to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, Wole Soyinka. Graced with a foreword by former chairman of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, The Meaning of Mandela should be required reading in philosophy and politics departments, a feature in the boardroom and an essential part of your carry-on luggage.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Xolela Mangcu
- WEB Du Bois, Encyclopedia Africana and Nelson Mandela / Henry Louis Gates Jr.
- - Nelson Mandela : great exemplar of the grand democratic tradition / Cornel West
- Views from a palette of the cultural revolution / Wole Soyinka.
- Notes:
- "Compiled by the Society, Culture and Identity Research Programme of the Human Sciences Research Council."--T.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contains:
- Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. WEB Du Bois, Encyclopedia Africana and Nelson Mandela.
- West, Cornel. Nelson Mandela.
- Soyinka, Wole. Views from a palette of the cultural revolution.
- ISBN:
- 0796921644
- 9780796921642
- OCLC:
- 71311933
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- Publisher description
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