Rethinking Africa's Globalization
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Book Description
This book provides a powerful and probing critique of the myths, meanings, promises, and perils of globalization, postcoloniality, and other currently popular discourses by interrogating their implications for Africa and African studies. It challenges misrepresentations and misappropriations of Africa in academic texts and in the popular media and reaffirms the importance of progressive nationalism, Pan-Africanism, and internationalism for Africa's reconstruction, a project in which universities and African intellectuals-including those in the North-have a critical role to play in promoting productive trans-national literacy and conversations across the Atlantic.
Erudite, interdisciplinary, and compelling, this book offers incisive reflections on the enduring questions of African development, democracy, and self-determination, and it emphasizes the importance of education and radical scholarship in meeting the daunting challenges of the new century.
About the Author
Paul Tiyambe Zeleza is a professor of history and African studies and the director of the Center for African Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. A historian, literary critic, novelist, and short story writer, he has taught at universities in Malawi, the Caribbean, Kenya, and Canada. He was the winner of the 1994 Noma Award for his book, A Modern Economic History of Africa and in 1998 was awarded the Special Commendation of the Noma Award for Manufacturing African Studies and Crises.
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