Decolonisation Pathways
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Decolonisation Pathways

  1. 342 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Decolonisation Pathways

About this book

One of the perennial questions in all former colonies is that of how to break the chains in which they are still entangled in various ways long after official 'independence'. Subsequent developments, such as globalisation, continue to make the situation even more complex. Marks of colonial chains are boldly imprinted in many Africans' psyches and relayed in practice in ways quite often contradictory to the continent's development demands. This book is an effort by Ugandan scholars at making sense of the intricate challenges of the African postcolonial situation. It tackles a wide range of areas, including: education, research, gender, migration, cultural identity, and environment. The overarching theme that binds together the different chapters is how to theoretically understand the dynamics behind Africa's colonial history and postcolonial performance/identities in the wake of globalisation. The theoretical analysis is then used to draw out ideas on how Africa can move forward on a self-decolonisation path to meaningful development.

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Table of contents

  1. Front page
  2. Title page
  3. About the series
  4. Copyright page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Contributors
  8. Preface and Acknowledgements
  9. The Unsung Secret of Africa
  10. 1 Introduction
  11. 2 Okot p’Bitek’s Diagnostic Poetics and the Quest for an African Revolution in Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol
  12. 3 Justice and the Dynamics of Research and Publication in Africa: Interrogating the Performance of ´Publish or Perish'
  13. 4 Whose Education Is It? The Exclusion of African Values from Higher Education
  14. 5 ‘If only I got a Visa’: Configurations of residential preferences and contemporary migration of Africans to Europe and North America
  15. 6 Towards Validating Research Discourses among Bantu in Africa: Obuntubulamu as a Possible Transforming Agent
  16. 7 Cultural Identity and Globalisation among the Contemporary Lugbara: Towards a Plural Cultural Identity
  17. 8 Africans and their Environment: Challenges and Possibilities of Restoring the Link Strained by Resource Conflict
  18. Index
  19. Back cover