Cry my beloved Africa : essays on the postcolonial aura in Africa / Peter Wuteh Vakunta.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vakunta, Peter W.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Africa--History--20th century.

Africa.

Africa--History--1960-.

Africa--Politics and government--1960-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (98 p.)

Place of Publication:

Mankon, Bamenda, Cameroon : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG ; [Mich.] : Distributed in N. America by Michigan State University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Cry My Beloved Africa is a compendium of essays having as locus the continent of Africa. It comprises insightful observations on the politics, governmental systems, political economy, cultural practices, educational systems and natural phenomena that impact on the lives of Africans. True to the tradition of French novelist Stendhal, the author intends this work to serve as a mirror that reflects the day-to-day living of the different peoples that inhabit the fifty-three nation-states in Africa. It is directed to contemporary Africa and to the relationship between Africa and the rest of the glo

Contents:

The trouble with Africa

A nation at risk

A celebration of diversity

False start in post-colonial Africa

It's a battlefield

Discourse on gender in Africa

African time and other Africanisms

Manufacturing the illusion of freedom

Myth about Africa's collective amnesia

A continent's dirty linen

Phantoms of the past

Path to rebirth

Hitler in Africa

Aporia : Africa's demo-dictators

Africa's tsunami

Rite of passage or unsafe ordeal.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 82-86).

ISBN:

9786613198051

9781283198059

1283198053

9789956715862

9956715867

9789956715985

9956715980

9789956615841

9956615846

OCLC:

830165140