African Intellectuals: Rethinking Politics, Language, Gender and Development (Africa in the New Millennium)

Contents......Page 6
Intellectuals, pan-Africanism and nationalism......Page 8
Culture and African intellectuals......Page 12
Africa and its diaspora......Page 14
Autonomous intellectual spaces......Page 16
2 | African intellectuals and nationalism......Page 17
The protagonists......Page 18
Non-organic intellectuals......Page 30
Deafening silence or silent struggle?......Page 32
The age of delusion......Page 35
The decade of extremes: renaissance or resignation?......Page 39
The new agenda?......Page 51
Notes......Page 53
References......Page 58
Pan-Africanism and the intelligentsia......Page 63
Erosion of solidarity, decline of intellectualism......Page 65
Towards a new intellectual revival......Page 70
Pan-Africanism: sub-Saharan and trans-Saharan......Page 71
Who are the Afrabians?......Page 73
Globalizing the dual diaspora......Page 74
Between African Americans and American Africans......Page 76
Conclusion......Page 80
Appendix......Page 81
Notes and references......Page 83
Introduction......Page 85
Nationalism......Page 89
Pan-Africanism......Page 91
The role of intellectuals in the African Renaissance......Page 95
Notes......Page 100
5 | Gender studies for Africa’s transformation......Page 101
Feminism and development......Page 103
Intellectual development in Africa......Page 104
Gender politics in African academic organizations......Page 107
Feminist scholarship......Page 110
Mapping the terrain......Page 113
Conclusions......Page 119
Notes......Page 120
References......Page 121
Who are intellectuals in the ANC-led  liberation struggle?......Page 124
ANC intellectuals – from a variety of sources......Page 125
The liberation movement as ‘collective intellectual’......Page 126
The ANC-led movement as creator of intellectuals......Page 127
Intellectual role and processes of intellectual formation......Page 128
Party/national liberation movement as ‘collective intellectual’......Page 147
The ANC acting as ‘collective intellectual’......Page 148
Consensus and contestation......Page 152
New conjuncture after 1990 and again after 1994......Page 153
Acknowledgements......Page 155
Notes......Page 156
References......Page 157
7 | Europhone or African memory: the challenge of the pan-Africanist intellectual in the era of globalization......Page 162
Notes......Page 171
The politics of development and underdevelopment......Page 172
Development......Page 174
Education, language and national development......Page 175
The use of African languages in education......Page 177
The language factor in the development of science and technology......Page 185
African languages and inter-African cooperation......Page 189
Prospects and perspectives......Page 192
Conclusion......Page 196
References......Page 197
9 | Historians, nationalism and pan-Africanism: myths and realities......Page 200
African historians and the past at independence......Page 202
Critique of nationalist historiography: which way forward?......Page 206
Conclusion......Page 210
Notes and references......Page 211
10 | The academic diaspora and knowledge production in and on Africa: what role for CODESRIA?......Page 216
Defining and debating African diasporas......Page 217
Contextualizing the academic diasporas......Page 220
Historicizing diasporic academic production and linkages......Page 224
Tendencies of the contemporary academic diaspora......Page 229
Conclusion: what role for CODESRIA?......Page 234
Notes......Page 236
References......Page 237
About the contributors......Page 242
Index......Page 244