The Power in the Writer : Collected Essays on Culture, Democracy and Development in Africa.

The book examines the creative industries of Cameroon and Africa and makes bold the cultural triumphant assertion that Africa is home to some of the most diverse cultural patrimony and the most versatile creative professionals. It also discusses indigenous development models and questions the ration...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ngwane, Mwakimu George
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Langaa RPCIG, 2008.
Temas:
Social sciences.
Sciences sociales.
social sciences.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Developing & Emerging Countries.
Social sciences
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Introducing Mwalimu George Ngwane; PART ONE
  • Culture; Chapter One
  • The Power in the Writer and the Writer in power; Chapter Two
  • The Cameroon Book Industry
  • challenges and changes; Chapter Three
  • Creative industries, Cultural entrepreneurship and Political statehood; Chapter Four
  • From Environmental waste to Artistic wealth; Chapter Five
  • Towards an Arts and Culture market in Africa; Chapter Six
  • Cameroonian Cultural Industries: Potentials & Promises; Chapter Seven
  • Mongo Beti: The Gadfly.
  • Chapter Eight
  • Spectrum Television (STV): The Dream and the DriftPART TWO
  • Pan African Democracy; Chapter Nine
  • Alternative Democratic models in Africa; Chapter Ten
  • The Military and African politics; Chapter Eleven
  • Deconstructing liberal Democracy in Africa; Chapter Twelve
  • Benin: From Liberal to Social Democracy; Chapter Thirteen
  • A Memorandum to the President of the Republic of Cameroon; Chapter Fourteen
  • The Opposition and their performance of electoral power in Cameroon (1992
  • 2007); Chapter Fifteen
  • What Powers for the Chairman of the African Union Commission?
  • Chapter Sixteen
  • Democracy Never DiesChapter Seventeen
  • The September Sirte Summit-cradle of African Union; Chapter Eighteen
  • Cameroon's new twist in pan African solidarity; Chapter Nineteen
  • Because we were involved (Reflections on the All Anglophone Conference ten years after); Chapter Twenty
  • Cameroon's Democratic Process: Vision 2020; Chapter Twenty One
  • Threshing the Togolese Tangle; PART THREE
  • Afrocentric Development; Chapter Twenty-Two
  • Africa's Development Problematique (The case of NEPAD); Chapter Twenty-Three
  • Africa and the Neocolonial Development Mirage.
  • Chapter Twenty-Four
  • Going GlobalChapter Twenty-Five
  • The African Woman; Chapter Twenty-Six
  • Gender-based violence in Africa; PART FOUR
  • Interviews; Chapter Twenty-Seven
  • Cultural Unification Identified as Instrument of African Unity; Chapter Twenty-Eight
  • George Ngwane: The Independent Intelectual; Chapter Twenty-Nine
  • There is a loss of faith in the Party System in Cameroon; Chapter Thirty
  • The United States of Africa is a Matter of Urgency; Chapter Thirty-One
  • The Causes of Conflicts in Africa; Back Cover.

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