Close to the sources
Subtitle: essays on contemporary African culture, politics, and academy
By: by Abebe Zegeye and Maurice Vambe
Contributors: Vambe, Maurice Taonezvi
Series: Routledge African studies -- 5
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780415895958; 9781868885404; 9780203807071
Subjects: Politics and government; History; African literature; Intellectual life; History and criticism; Civilization; Education; Postcolonialism
Description: "This is one of the first books in Africa to explore the status and critical relationships between politics, culture, literary creativity, criticism, education and publishing in the context of promoting Africa's indigenous knowledge systems. The book's main themes are built around literary culture, the role of meta-criticism and education in post independence Africa. While building on the theoretical blocks of Cabral's works, the book assimilates insights from some important sources of scholarship in Africa and creates space for itself to (1) revise and extend Amilcar Cabral's concept of the Return To The Source and (2) introduce in critical ways, notions of inter-, cross-, and trans-disciplinary approaches to the understanding of African culture, politics and the academy"--Publisher's website.
Notes: "Simultaneously published in the UK"--T.p. verso.

"First published in paperback 2009 by Unisa Press, University of South Africa"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The assault on African cultures; title: Notes on theorising Black diaspora in Africa; title: On the postcolony and the vulgarisation of political criticism; title: Rethinking the epistemic conditions of genocide in Africa; title: African indigenous knowledge systems; title: Knowledge production and publishing in Africa; title: Amilcar Cabral : national liberation as the basis of Africa's renaissances; title: Amilcar Cabral and the fortunes of African literature; title: Perspectives on Africanising educational curricula in Africa; title: Voices from the fringes : some reflections on postcolonial South African writings.