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- Beyond the Political Spider: Critical Issues in African Humanities
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- 2021
- Published by: NISC (Pty) Ltd
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Beyond the Political Spider: Critical Issues in African Humanities by Kwesi Yankah is the first title in the newly established African Humanities Association (AHA) publication series. By integrating his own biography into a critique of the global politics of knowledge production, Yankah, through a collection of essays, interrogates critical issues confronting the Humanities that spawn intellectual hegemonies and muffle African voices. Using the example of Ghana, he brings under scrutiny, amongst others, endemic issues of academic freedom, gender inequities, the unequal global academic order, and linguistic imperialism in language policies in governance. In the face of these challenges, the author deftly navigates the complex terrain of indigenous knowledge and language in the context of democratic politics, demonstrating that agency can be liberatory when emphasising indigenous knowledge, especially expressed through the idiom of local languages and symbols, including Ananse, the protean spider, folk hero in Ghana and most parts of the pan-African world.
Table of Contents
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- List of abbreviations and acronyms
- pp. xii-xiv
- Section I: Defining moments
- 3. Arts and the African identify
- pp. 41-62
- Section II: Toward academic excellence
- 5. The drumbeat of academicfreedom
- pp. 91-120
- 6. Towards gender parity inhigher education
- pp. 121-144
- Section III: Language in governance
- 7. Language and the dilemma in public policy
- pp. 145-169
- 8. Kwame Nkrumah's Verandah Boys
- pp. 170-198
- Section IV: Rhetoric and social power
- 11. The making and breaking ofKwame Nkrumah
- pp. 238-255
- 13. The folktale as a politicaltranscript
- pp. 268-287
- Section V: Outstanding Humanists
- 14. J. H. Kwabena Nketia 1921–2019
- pp. 288-296
- 15. Efua Sutherland: 1924–1996
- pp. 297-305
- 16. Agya Koo Nimo
- pp. 306-311
- Epilogue: Beyond the Political Spider
- pp. 312-315
- Back Cover
- p. 327
Additional Information
ISBN
9781920033811
Related ISBN(s)
9781920033804
MARC Record
OCLC
1287136760
Pages
340
Launched on MUSE
2022-02-18
Language
English
Open Access
No