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African visions : literary images, political change, and social struggle in contemporary Africa

Author: Cheryl Benoit Mwaria; Silvia Federici; Joseph McLaren; Hofstra University.
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2000.
Series: Contributions in Afro-American and African studies, no. 197.
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African visions.
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2000
(OCoLC)606534925
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Cheryl Benoit Mwaria; Silvia Federici; Joseph McLaren; Hofstra University.
ISBN: 0313310459 9780313310454
OCLC Number: 42290330
Description: xxii, 280 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Social Movements --
Poem: "What Is the Soul of Africa?" / Dennis Brutus --
Africa 2000: In the New Global Context / Dennis Brutus --
The International Intellectual Property Regime and the Enclosure of African Knowledge / C. George Caffentzis --
Mijikenda Perspectives on Freedom, Culture and Human "Rights" / Diane Ciekawy --
Structural Adjustment and the African Diaspora in Italy / Steven Colatrella --
The New African Student Movement / Silvia Federici --
Academic Pursuits Under the LINK / Karim F. Hirji --
Democratization and Interventionism in Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa / Francois Ngolet --
A Vision of the Past as a Beacon for the Future: The Application of Fatimid Ideals in the City of Cairo / Habibeh Rahim --
Women, AIDS and the Female Condom: Preventing HIV in Southern Africa / Ida Susser --
Literature, Social Change and Culture --
Poem: "The Monstrous Instrument" / Maina Kinyatti --
African Languages and Global Culture in the Twenty-first Century / Ngugi wa Thiong'o --
Hybridity, Neouniversalist Cultural Theory, and the Comparative Study of Black Literatures / F. Odun Balogun --
White Women, Black Revolutionaries: Sex and Politics in Four Novels by Nadine Gordimer / Nancy Topping Bazin --
Popular Hausa Drama in Niger and the Politics of Its Appropriation / Ousseina D. Alidou --
Developmental Pleasures, Education, Entertainment, and Popular Literacy in South Africa / Loren Kruger --
Socialist-Oriented Literature in Postcolonial Africa: Retrospective and Prospective / Alamin M. Mazrui.
Series Title: Contributions in Afro-American and African studies, no. 197.
Responsibility: edited by Cheryl B. Mwaria, Silvia Federici, and Joseph McLaren ; prepared under the auspices of Hofstra University.

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