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Author : M. S. C. Okolo
Release : 2007-06
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis African Literature as Political Philosophy by : M. S. C. Okolo
Download or read book African Literature as Political Philosophy written by M. S. C. Okolo. This book was released on 2007-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description
Author : Gideon-Cyrus Makau Mutiso
Release : 1974
Genre : Literary Collections
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Book Synopsis Socio-political Thought in African Literature by : Gideon-Cyrus Makau Mutiso
Download or read book Socio-political Thought in African Literature written by Gideon-Cyrus Makau Mutiso. This book was released on 1974. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary Stella Chika Okolo
Release : 2013-07-04
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis African Literature as Political Philosophy by : Mary Stella Chika Okolo
Download or read book African Literature as Political Philosophy written by Mary Stella Chika Okolo. This book was released on 2013-07-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The politics of development in Africa have always been central concerns of the continent's literature. Yet ideas about the best way to achieve this development, and even what development itself should look like, have been hotly contested. African Literature as Political Philosophy looks in particular at Achebe's Anthills of the Savannah and Petals of Blood by Ngugi wa Thiong'o, but situates these within the broader context of developments in African literature over the past half-century, discussing writers from Ayi Kwei Armah to Wole Soyinka. M.S.C. Okolo provides a thorough analysis of the authors' differing approaches and how these emerge from the literature. She shows the roots of Achebe's reformism and Ngugi's insistence on revolution and how these positions take shape in their work. Okolo argues that these authors have been profoundly affected by the political situation of Africa, but have also helped to create a new African political philosophy.
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Release : 2010
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Download or read book Mary Stella Okolo written by . This book was released on 2010. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " E raison d'être of Okolo's book, which forms her core thesis and which she defends through comparisons of the context, the content and intellectual discourses of the two writers vis-à-vis each other and in relation to other writers of international recognition, is that an imaginative and conscious writer who bases his/her writings on a critical appraisal of social reality is a critical political. [...] " e beauty of o! ering such a comparison lies not in the recounting of simplistic factual events but in the multi-disciplinary interpretation of events of the here and now with the there and then and bringing to bear the raptures, continuities and discontinuities and in this manner locating and giving meaning to social action and interaction. [...] In my view, this is one way of the how of engaging in a comparative and/or multidisciplinary methodological stance and which also lies at the core of making sense of everyday realities with the aim of searching for a new and better order of things. [...] " e second captivating aspect of the book is the desire that Okolo, the young generation writer, creates in us in seeing how she transcends and harmonizes the scienti$ c foundations of the West and the rest of us and us in comparison to ourselves. [...] In resurrecting ideology as a debatable theoretical stance for the realisation of a new order, one is at once reminded of the debates of the late 80s and early 90s among a group of scholars whether ideology is indeed fruitful for Africa (we have to bear in mind that this is when some of the political ideologies like Ujamaa where beginning to show their ugly faces).
Author : Albert Kasanda
Release : 2018-05-11
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis Contemporary African Social and Political Philosophy by : Albert Kasanda
Download or read book Contemporary African Social and Political Philosophy written by Albert Kasanda. This book was released on 2018-05-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores what constitutes contemporary African social and political philosophy with regard to its meaning, aims, sources, and relevance for today’s Africa. Kasanda denounces conventional approaches considering these either as a subcategory of general philosophy or as the ideological attempts of individual African leaders and professional philosophers, such as Nkrumah, Nyerere, Senghor, Fanon, Hountondji and Towa. On the contrary, Kasanda defines contemporary African social and political philosophy as an inclusive reflection of African communities with regard to power and equitable modes of social and political organization in order to promote human excellence for everyone. This perspective also includes the criticism of social and political concepts in use within African communities. The author postulates that contemporary African social and political philosophy relies on the legacy of precolonial African societies, as well as on the contribution of the diaspora throughout the world. Contemporary African social and political philosophy is rooted in the daily lives of African people, and it expresses itself through multiple modalities including, for example, art, religion, literature, music and the policy of urbanization of African cities. This book sheds new light on debates concerning topics such as ethnophilosophy, negritude, pan-Africanism, democracy, African civil society, African cultures, and globalization. It aims to ward off the lethargy that strikes African social and political philosophy, taking a renewed and critical approach.
