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An African Voice : The Role of the Humanities in African Independence /

Through the work of leading African writers, artists, musicians and educators-from Nobel prizewinner Wole Soyinka to names hardly known outside their native lands-An African Voice describes the contributions of the humanities to the achievement of independence for the peoples of black Africa followi...

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Autor principal: July, Robert William (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 1987.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Prologue: A Candle at KiIimanjaro -- Part I. The Crisis of Independence -- Colonial Legacies -- The Ambiguities of Colonialism -- Antecedents -- The Shock of Colonialism -- Neocolonial Influences -- The Urge for Cultural Independence -- Presence Africaine and the Expression of Cultural Freedom -- The Meaning of Independence: Julius Nyerere and Sekou Toure -- The First International Congress of Black Writers and Artists -- Negritude 29 Presence Americaine -- Pan-Africanism or Communism? -- A Congress Cultural or a Congress Political? -- Part 2. The Arts and Cultural Independence -- The Visual Arts and African Independence -- The Humanist and the Intangibles of Independence -- The Decline of Excellence 48 Oku Ampofo and the Akwapim Six -- The Independent African Theater -- African Theatrics -- Ibadan University and the Eclectic Theater of Nigeria -- The Pedagogical Theater of Efua Sutherland -- Africans Dance -- Africa Still Dances -- The Musician -- The Catalyst:The Dancer -- Les Ballets Africains -- Literary Perspectives of Cultural Independence -- Three Novels -- Independence -- Uncertainty -- Affirmation -- Part 3. Educational Independence -- The Search for a Usable Past -- The Uses of History -- Negro Nations and Their Culture -- History at Ibadan -- The Question of Oral Tradition: A Usable Past -- The Idea of an African University -- Early Educational Theories -- African Education at University College of the Gold Coast -- Nkrumah at Legon: Nkrumah Chooses a Vice-Chancellor -- Organizing Africana -- The Pros and Cons of African Studies -- African Studies in Ghana -- The African Studies Institute, University of Ibadan -- Part 4. A Modern African Civilization --The African Personality and Europe -- Identity Quandaries -- The Assault of Scientific Racism -- Black Orpheus -- The Flight from Europe: Frantz Fanon -- The Flight from Europe-Medicine in Africa -- The African Identity and the NewAfrican Philosophy -- An African Voice -- Bellagio -- In Defense of African Culture -- Technology and African Culture -- The Evolution of an African Designer -- An African Voice. 
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