Africa at the Crossroads

Theorising Fundamentalisms in the 21st Century

Artwell Nhemachena, Munyaradzi Mawere, Artwell Nhemachena, Munyaradzi Mawere

• Publisher: Langaa RPCIG
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN:
  9789956764082
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9789956762576
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Global Development Studies
• Index: Social Sciences

This volume interrogates and theorises various forms of fundamentalism and fetishism that impinge on Africa and the African people. The book valiantly rethinks and unpacks these forms of fundamentalisms and fetishisms, offering in the process critical vistas for students, scholars and activists on matters of decoloniality and transformation. By meticulously and painstakingly unpacking pertinent issues, the book provides unparalleled intellectual milestones and platforms for the oncoming revolution and quest for justice in the form of decoloniality and transformation. Drawing from several disciplinary domains such as Development Studies, Security Studies, Political Anthropology and Sociology, Economic Anthropology and Social studies, English Studies, History, Philosophy and Religious Studies, and drawing from scholars from across different universities in the Southern African region, the book provides multiple lenses from which to understand the complex goings on in a continent that can no longer afford to simply fold hands and watch while its citizens suffer multiple forms of coloniality, fetishisms and fundamentalisms.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title page
• Copyright page
• List of Contributors
• Contents
• Chapter One - Theorising Fundamentalisms and Fetishisms in the 21st Century
• Chapter Two - “Humanitarian” Fundamentalism: Interrogating “Global” Processes of Fishing in African Troubled Waters
• Chapter Three - On the Coloniality of Research in Africa: The Case of HIV/AIDS in South Africa
• Chapter Four - Poverty and Fundamentalism in Africa
• Chapter Five - Questioning the Cult of the State: Evangelicals on the Zimbabwean National Pledge 2014-2016
• Chapter Six - Foot Soldiers of the New Empire or Horizontal Saviours? Interrogating Civil Society Organisations and Fundamentalisms in Twenty-First Century Africa
• Chapter Seven - Dismantling Fundamentalisms in Science:T railing Feyerab End’s Epistemological Anarchism and the Place of African Science
• Chapter Eight - Fetishisation of Knowledge: A Case of Patriotic History in Zimbabwe
• Chapter Nine - History, culture, religion and [under-]development in Africa
• Chapter Ten - Interfacing the Past and the Present: Traditional Leaders, Politics and Materialism in Zimbabwe since the Pre-colonial Period
• Chapter Eleven - A Constitutional ‘Gamble’: Re-visiting the COPAC Driven Constitutional Making Process in Zimbabwe
• Back cover