African intellectuals: rethinking politics, language, gender and development

Abstract

* 1. Introduction - Thandika Mkandawire * Intellectuals, Pan-Africanism and nationalism * Culture and African intellectuals * Africa and Its Diaspora * Autonomous Intellectual Spaces * 2. African Intellectuals and Nationalism - Thandika Mkandawire * The Protagonists * Non-Organic intellectuals * Deafening Silence or Silent Struggle? * The Age of Delusion * The Decade of Extremes: Renaissance or Resignation? * The New Agenda? * 3. Pan-Africanism and the Intellectuals: Rise, Decline and Revival - Ali A. Mazrui * Pan-Africanism and the Intelligentsia * Erosion of Solidarity, Decline of Intellectualism * Towards a New Intellectual Revival * Pan-Africanism: Sub-Saharan and Trans-Saharan * Who Are the Afrabians? * Globalising the Dual Diaspora * Between African Americans and American Africans * 4. Intellectuals, Nationationalism and Panafricanism: A Testimony - Joseph Ki-Zerbo * Nationalism * Pan-africanism * The role of intellectuals in generating the binomial driving force of the african renaissance * 5. Gender Studies for Africa's Transformation - Amina Mama * The Growth of Gender and Women's Studies in Africa * Gender Politics and Developmentalism * Shifting University Landscapes * Gender Politics in African Universities * Feminist Studies in Africa * Strengthening Gender Studies for Africa's Transformation * Challenges * 6. The character and formation of intellectuals within the ANC-led South African liberation movement - Raymond Suttner * Who are intellectuals in the context of the ANC-led South African liberation struggle? * ANC intellectuals - from a variety of sources * The Liberation movement as 'collective intellectual' * The ANC-led National Liberation Movement as creator of intellectuals * Intellectual role and processes of intellectual formation * Party/National liberation movement as 'collective intellectual' * The ANC acting as 'collective intellectual' through its strategy and tactics document of 1969 * Consensus and contestation in producing an intellectual product * New conjuncture after 1990 and again after 1994 * 7. Europhone or African Memory: The Challenge of the Pan-Africanist Intellectual in the Era of Globalization - Ngugi wa Thiong'o * 8. The Language Question and National Development in Africa - Beban Sammy Chumbow * The Politics of Development and Underdevelopment * Development * Education, Language and National Development * The Use of African Languages in Education * The Language Factor in the Development of Science and Technology * African Languages and Inter-African Co-operation * Prospects and Perspectives * 9. Historians, Nationalism, and Pan-Africanism: Myths and Realities - Hannington Ochwada * African Historians and the Past at Independence * Critique of Nationalist Historiography: Which way Forward? * 10. The Academic Diaspora and Knowledge Production in and on Africa: What Role for CODESRIA? - Paul Tiyambe Zeleza * Defining and Debating African Diasporas * Contextualising the Academic Diasporas * Historicising Diasporic Academic Production and Linkages * Tendencies of the Contemporary Academic Diaspora * Conclusion: What Role for CODESRIA?