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The power in the writer : collected essays on culture, democracy & development in Africa / Mwalimu George Ngwane.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ngwane, George, 1960-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Democracy--Africa.
- Democracy.
- Afrocentrism.
- Africa--Politics and government--1960-.
- Africa.
- Africa--Social conditions--1960-.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (197 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bamenda, Cameroon : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The book examines the creative industries of Cameroon and Africa and makes bold the cultural triumphant assertion that Africa is home to some of the most diverse cultural patrimony and the most versatile creative professionals. It also discusses indigenous development models and questions the rationale for Eurocentric democratic paradigms which have partly contributed to the demise of a concrete democratic development entitlement in most African countries. Ngwane weaves both the cultural and political strands into a search for a homegrown development web which he calls 'glocalisation'. Ngwane'
- Contents:
- Pt. 1: Culture
- Pt. 2: Pan African Democracy
- Pt. 3: Afrocentric development
- Pt. 4: Interviews.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 9786613198723
- 9781283198721
- 128319872X
- 9789956717842
- 9956717843
- 9789956717965
- 9956717967
- 9789956615773
- 9956615773
- OCLC:
- 830165594
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