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Kurt A. April and Marylou Shockley
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Kurt A. April: University of Cape Town
Marylou Shockley: California State University

A chapter in Diversity in Africa, 2007, pp 303-308 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract It is timely that the “intelligentsia”2 of Africa progresses the Renaissance agenda for Africa, by interrogating the emerging dynamics brought about by our diversity as Africans both living on the continent and the diaspora. It is more appropriate that it is Africans initiating and taking the lead in asking these questions, as Africans and for Africa(ns). This is still a refreshing new encounter for Africa, which has predominately being pocked at and probed by Western studies which have not been intended for Africa(ns) but rather Westerners themselves, with the unfortunate consequence of stereotyped responses to Africa(ns). Thus the inspiration of this book is not just in the concepts and ideas it is propagating to and for Africans by Africans who write from an African standpoint but also, its epistemic repossession, theoretical rearticulation and the locating of Africans within their symbolic and pragmatic world. This promises a new paradigm of how Africa and Africans can perceive themselves, and revolutionize how they have been viewed by the rest of the world.

Keywords: African Union; Structural Adjustment Program; African Philosophy; Stereotyped Response; Frame Debate (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230627536_18

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