| Dani Nabudere's Afrikology: A Quest for African Holism Contributor(s): Osha, Sanya (Author) |
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ISBN: 2869787537 ISBN-13: 9782869787537 Publisher: Codesria OUR PRICE: $33.44 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Africa - General - Political Science | World - African - Social Science | Regional Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.37" H x 6" W x 9" (0.54 lbs) 162 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - African |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Dani Wadada Nabudere, the illustrious Ugandan scholar, produced a diverse body of work on various aspects of African culture, politics, and philosophy. Toward the end of his life, he formulated a theoretical construct that he termed "Afrikology." Unlike most other Afrocentrists, who have stopped with the task of proving the primacy of the Egyptian past and its numerous cultural and scientific achievements, Nabudere strenuously attempts to connect that illustrious heritage with the African present. This, remarkably, is what makes his project worthy of careful attention. His corpus is multidisciplinary, although a major preoccupation with Africa is discernible in virtually all his works. His writings deal with critiques of imperialism, African political systems, processes of globalization and Africa's location within them, and finally the ideological and existential imperatives of Afrocentric discourse. |
Contributor Bio(s): Osha, Sanya: - Sanya Osha is a research fellow at the Institute for Economic Research in Innovation, at Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, South Africa. He was also a fellow of the Africa Studies Centre, Leiden, the Netherlands. He has published extensivily on philosophy. His last publications include African Postcolonial Modernity: Informal Subjectivities and the Democratic Consensus (2014) and The Social Contract in Africa, (ed.) (2014). |