Yankah: Beyond the Political Spider
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Yankah: Beyond the Political Spider

Critical Issues in African Humanities

  1. 340 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Yankah: Beyond the Political Spider

Critical Issues in African Humanities

About this book

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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Information

Publisher
NISC (Pty) Ltd
Year
2021
Print ISBN
9781920033804
eBook ISBN
9781920033811
Edition
1

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Dedication
  3. About the Series
  4. Title page
  5. Copyright page
  6. Contents
  7. Foreword
  8. List of abbreviations and acronyms
  9. Prologue. Until the lion learns to speak, Tales of hunting will always favour the hunter
  10. Issues
  11. Historical icon
  12. Acknowledgements
  13. Section 1 - Defining moments
  14. Section 2 - Towards academic excellence
  15. Section 3. Language in governance
  16. Section 4 - Rhetoric and social power
  17. Section 5 - Outstanding Humanists
  18. Epilogue. Beyond the Political Spider
  19. Index
  20. Back cover