Beyond the Political Spider: Critical Issues in African Humanities by Kwesi Yankah is the first title in the newly established African Humanities Association (AHA) publication series. By integrating his own biography into a critique of the global politics of knowledge production, Yankah, through a collection of essays, interrogates critical issues confronting the Humanities that spawn intellectual hegemonies and muffle African voices. Using the example of Ghana, he brings under scrutiny, amongst others, endemic issues of academic freedom, gender inequities, the unequal global academic order, and linguistic imperialism in language policies in governance. In the face of these challenges, the author deftly navigates the complex terrain of indigenous knowledge and language in the context of democratic politics, demonstrating that agency can be liberatory when emphasising indigenous knowledge, especially expressed through the idiom of local languages and symbols, including Ananse, the protean spider, folk hero in Ghana and most parts of the pan-African world.
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9781920033804
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1Table of contents
- Cover
- Dedication
- About the Series
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Foreword
- List of abbreviations and acronyms
- Prologue. Until the lion learns to speak, Tales of hunting will always favour the hunter
- Issues
- Historical icon
- Acknowledgements
- Section 1 - Defining moments
- Section 2 - Towards academic excellence
- Section 3. Language in governance
- Section 4 - Rhetoric and social power
- Section 5 - Outstanding Humanists
- Epilogue. Beyond the Political Spider
- Index
- Back cover