African Studies In The Academy
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Author |
: Mawere, Munyaradzi |
Publisher |
: Langaa RPCIG |
Total Pages |
: 303 |
Release |
: 2017-08-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789956762224 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9956762229 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Synopsis African Studies in the Academy by : Mawere, Munyaradzi
For a long time, African Studies as a discipline has been spearheaded by academics and institutions in the Global North. This puts African Studies on the continent at a crossroads of making choices on whether such a discipline can be legitimately accepted as an epistemological discipline seeking objectivity and truth about Africa and the African peoples or a discipline meant to perpetuate the North’s hegemonic socio-economic, political and epistemic control over Africa. The compound question that immediately arises is: Who should produce what and which space should African Studies occupy in the academy both of the North and of the South? Confronted by such a question, one wonders whether the existence of African Studies Centres in the Global North academies open opportunities for critical thinking on Africa or it opens possibilities for the emergence of the same discipline in Africa as a fertile space for trans-disciplinary debate. While approaches critical for the development of African Studies are pervasive in African universities through fields such as cultural studies, social anthropology, history, sociology, indigenous knowledge studies and African philosophy, the discipline of African Studies though critical to Africa is rarely practiced as such in the African academy and its future on the continent remains bleak. African Studies in the Academy is a testimony that if honestly and objectively practiced, the crossroads position of African Studies as a discipline makes it a fertile ground for generating and testing new approaches critical for researching and understanding Africa. It also challenges Africa to seriously consider assuming its legitimate position to champion African Studies from within. These issues are at the heart of the present volume.
Author |
: Munyaradzi Mawere |
Publisher |
: African Books Collective |
Total Pages |
: 303 |
Release |
: 2017-08-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789956763573 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9956763578 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis African Studies in the Academy by : Munyaradzi Mawere
For a long time, African Studies as a discipline has been spearheaded by academics and institutions in the Global North. This puts African Studies on the continent at a crossroads of making choices on whether such a discipline can be legitimately accepted as an epistemological discipline seeking objectivity and truth about Africa and the African peoples or a discipline meant to perpetuate the Norths hegemonic socio-economic, political and epistemic control over Africa. The compound question that immediately arises is: Who should produce what and which space should African Studies occupy in the academy both of the North and of the South? Confronted by such a question, one wonders whether the existence of African Studies Centres in the Global North academies open opportunities for critical thinking on Africa or it opens possibilities for the emergence of the same discipline in Africa as a fertile space for trans-disciplinary debate. While approaches critical for the development of African Studies are pervasive in African universities through fields such as cultural studies, social anthropology, history, sociology, indigenous knowledge studies and African philosophy, the discipline of African Studies though critical to Africa is rarely practised as such in the African academy and its future on the continent remains bleak. African Studies in the Academy.is a testimony that if honestly and objectively practised, the crossroads position of African Studies as a discipline makes it a fertile ground for generating and testing new approaches critical for researching and understanding Africa. It also challenges Africa to seriously consider assuming its legitimate position to champion African Studies from within. These issues are at the heart of the present volume.
Author |
: Houston A. Baker |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 144 |
Release |
: 2013-11-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226156293 |
ISBN-13 |
: 022615629X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance by : Houston A. Baker
"Mr. Baker perceives the harlem Renaissance as a crucial moment in a movement, predating the 1920's, when Afro-Americans embraced the task of self-determination and in so doing gave forth a distinctive form of expression that still echoes in a broad spectrum of 20th-century Afro-American arts. . . . Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance may well become Afro-America's 'studying manual.'"—Tonya Bolden, New York Times Book Review
Author |
: Carole Boyce Davies |
Publisher |
: Africa World Press |
Total Pages |
: 358 |
Release |
: 2003 |
ISBN-10 |
: 159221066X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781592210664 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (6X Downloads) |
Synopsis Decolonizing the Academy by : Carole Boyce Davies
Decolonizing the Academy asserts that the academy,is perhaps the most colonized space. At the same,time the academy is a place of knowledge and,transformation. As we move into the 21st century,it is becoming clear that the academy is one of,the primary sites for the production and,reproduction of ideas that serve the interests of,colonising powers. This collection of essays,argues the possibility of re-engaging the,decolonizing process at the level of knowledge and,asserts that this is an ongoing project worthy of,being undertaken in a variety of fields.
Author |
: Academy (Windhoek, Namibia) |
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Total Pages |
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Release |
: 1986 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:24876693 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis African Studies of the Academy by : Academy (Windhoek, Namibia)
Author |
: B. Nyamnjoh |
Publisher |
: African Books Collective |
Total Pages |
: 38 |
Release |
: 2020-06-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783906927268 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3906927261 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis Decolonising the Academy by : B. Nyamnjoh
Recurrent clamours by students and academics for universities in Africa and elsewhere, to imbibe and exude a spirit of inclusion are a continual reminder that universities can and need to be much more convivial. Processes of knowledge production that champion delusions of superiority and zero-sum games of absolute winners and losers are elitist and un-convivial. Academic disciplines tend to encourage introversion and emphasise exclusionary fundamentalisms of heartlands rather than highlight inclusionary overtures of borderlands. Frequenting crossroads and engaging in frontier conversations are frowned upon, if not prohibited. The scarcity of conviviality in universities, within and between disciplines, and among scholars results in highly biased knowledge processes. The production and consumption of knowledge are socially and politically mediated by webs of humanity, hierarchies of power, and instances of human agency. Given the resilience of colonial education throughout Africa and among Africans, endogenous traditions of knowledge are barely recognised and grossly underrepresented. What does conviviality in knowledge production entail? It involves conversing and collaborating across disciplines and organisations and integrating epistemologies informed by popular universes and ideas of reality. Convivial scholarship is predicated upon recognising and providing for incompleteness in persons, disciplines, and traditions of knowing and knowledge making.
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: 0 |
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ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:1374947110 |
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: 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Synopsis Globalization, African Studies and the Academy by :
However, the broad contours of the field were not clearly drawn until the 1950s with the founding of the African Studies Association (ASA), and the enactment by the United States Congress in 1958 of the Title VI National Defense and Education Act (Carter 1983). [...] Moreover, during the creation of the African Studies Association, the federal government was in the throes of the Cold War, and looked at Africa and other parts of the developing world almost exclusively in terms of U. [...] On the one hand it questioned the authority of the African Studies establishment to define the field; it questioned the relationship between the African Studies establishment and the U. [...] One of the complaints of the rebels at the 1969 meeting of the African Studies Association meeting in Montreal was that the leadership of the organization tended to be dominated by white males, and that Africans had no voice in the organization. [...] The ghettoization and demise of African studies is due as much to the predominance of the paradigms of development studies and politically brokered research as it is to the decline of government and international funding for African area studies.
Author |
: Toyin Falola |
Publisher |
: Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages |
: 691 |
Release |
: 2022 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781648250279 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1648250270 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Synopsis Decolonizing African Studies by : Toyin Falola
Introduction: The Decolonial Moments -- Epistemologies and Methodologies -- Decoloniality and Decolonizing Knowledge -- Eurocentrism and Intellectual Imperialism -- Epistemologies of Intellectual Liberation -- Decolonizing Knowledge in Africa -- Decolonizing Research Methodology -- Oral Tradition: Cultural Analysis and Epistemic Value -- Agencies and Voices -- Voices of Decolonization -- Voices of Decoloniality -- Decoloniality: A Critique -- Women's Voices on Decolonization -- Empowering Marginal Voices: LGBTQ and African Studies -- Intellectual Spaces -- Decolonizing the African Academy -- Decolonizing Knowledge Through Language -- Decolonizing of African Literature -- Identity and the African Feminist Writers -- Decolonizing African Aesthetics -- Decolonizing African History -- Decolonizing Africa Religion -- Decolonizing African Philosophy -- African Futurism.
Author |
: Edmond J. Keller |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 1998 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:1037124982 |
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: |
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: 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Synopsis Globalization, African Studies and the Academy by : Edmond J. Keller
Author |
: Houston A. Baker, Jr. |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 123 |
Release |
: 2018-12-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226167336 |
ISBN-13 |
: 022616733X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Synopsis Black Studies, Rap, and the Academy by : Houston A. Baker, Jr.
In this explosive book, Houston Baker takes stock of the current state of Black Studies in the university and outlines its responsibilities to the newest form of black urban expression—rap. A frank, polemical essay, Black Studies, Rap, and the Academy is an uninhibited defense of Black Studies and an extended commentary on the importance of rap. Written in the midst of the political correctness wars and in the aftermath of the Los Angeles riots, Baker's meditation on the academy and black urban expression has generated much controversy and comment from both ends of the political spectrum.