Intellectuals and African development : pretension and resistance in African politics / Björn Beckman & Gbemisola Adeoti, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Beckman, Björn, 1938- editor.

Adeoti, Gbemisola, editor.

Codesria.

Series:

Africa in the new millennium.

Africa in the new millennium

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political culture--Africa.

Political culture.

International agencies--Africa.

International agencies.

Africa--Politics and government--1960-.

Africa.

Africa--Social conditions--1960-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (185 p.)

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021

Place of Publication:

London, England : Zed Books, ©2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The essays in this book study responses to 'the African predicament'. They draw on a diversity of sources, including prominent writers such as Soyinka, Ngug̃i ̃and Achebe; military men in power; and students who defy repression. The volume suggests that intervention by international agencies claiming to promote 'democracy' and to 'empower the youth' may only reinforce authoritarian attitudes and structures. Instead, it gives voice to the outrage, ridicule, revolutionary ardour and reformist caution of those directly involved. It also exposes the shallow pretences of those in power, and conclud.

Contents:

Predicament and response: an introduction / BjöRn Beckman and Gbemisola Adeoti

Part 1. Intellectuals, writers and soldiers

Chapter 1. Psychopaths in power: the collapse of the African dream in A Play of Giants / Olusegun, Adekoya

Chapter 2. Re-establishing the basis of social order in Africa: a reflection on Achebe's reformist agenda and Ngugi's Marxist aesthetics / M. S. C. Okolo

Chapter 3. Narrating the green gods: the (auto) biographies of Nigerian military rulers / Gbemisola Adeoti

Part 2. Students, youths and people

Chapter 4. Ambiguous transitions: mediating citizenship among youth in Cameroon / Jude Fokwang

Chapter 5. Student radicalism and the national project: the Nigerian student movement / Björn Beckman

Chapter 6. Transnational governance and the pacification of youth: civic education and disempowerment in Malawi / Harri Englund

Chapter 7. Identity and knowledge production in the fourth generation / Nana Akua Anyidoho

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

ISBN:

9786611216047

9781350220782

1350220787

9781848131484

1848131488

9781281216045

1281216046

OCLC:

476136964