Beyond the Political Spider Critical Issues in African Humanities.
"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 u...
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| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Oxford : NISC (Pty) Limited (National Inquiry Services Centre (Pty) Ltd), 2021. |
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| Online Access: | Click here for full text at Project MUSE |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Beyond the Political Spider |h [electronic resource] : |b Critical Issues in African Humanities. |
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| 500 | |a Description based upon print version of record. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Section 1: Defining moments -- Chapter 1: Rising with the African humanities -- Chapter 2: Science speaks, the humanities answer -- Chapter 3: Arts and the African identity -- Section 2: Towards academic excellence -- Chapter 4: The quest for a new world academic order -- Chapter 5: The drumbeat of academic freedom -- Chapter 6: Towards gender parity in higher education -- Section 3: Language in governance -- ?Chapter 7: Language and the dilemma in public policy -- Chapter 8: Kwame Nkrumah's Verandah Boys -- Chapter 9: Language, education, and electoral choices -- Section 4: Rhetoric and social power -- Chapter 10: Proverbs, presidents and the politics of expediency -- Chapter 11: The making and breaking of Kwame Nkrumah -- Chapter 12: Tweaa: Meaning and the social power of little words -- Chapter 13: The folktale as a political transcript -- Section 5: Outstanding humanists -- Chapter 14: J. H. Kwabena Nketia: 1921-2019 -- Chapter 15: Efua Sutherland: 1924-1996 -- Chapter 16: Agya Koo Nimo | |
| 520 | |a "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." From publisher's website. | ||
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