Despite the cultural diversity found in Africa and the complexity ofthe psychology of the colonizer and the colonized, several fundamental facts emerge regarding the function of language and literature in recent African history. The colonizer sought to instill a sense of inferiority in the colonized as part of the dynamics of conquest, placing special emphasis on education and language. These notions, lucidly discussed by such social thinkers as O. Mannoni, Frantz Fanon, and Albert Memmi, have analogues in the defense of language everywhere where lingua-political oppression occurs, be it in colonial Africa or on an Arapaho reservation in the American West. What is especially significant about the forced acquisition of a European language is...
This book discovers freedom in the colonial idea of African primitiveness. As human transcendence, f...
The bulk of the book is based on papers presented during two virtual conferences hosted by the Unive...
A discussion on knowledge independence or knowledge-production decolonization with the assumption th...
The emergence of European forces in Africa between the 1870s and 1900 marked the threshold of a new ...
Part of a special issue on international perspectives on education and decolonization. The writer ex...
Language, Culture and Decolonisation discusses the importance of language in decoloniality from a gl...
Decolonizing the Mind by Ngugi Wa Thiong’o is a seminal work that highlights the importance of langu...
In his article, Language and Culture in African Postcolonial Literature, Kwaku Asante-Darko offers...
In the 1960s, much diatribe was exchanged by African literary artists within their caucus, and outsi...
This paper draws attention to the relevance of decolonization as a notion and process for education ...
One of the touchstones in the pursuit of literacy excellence, according to Longinus, is the creation...
Very little attention has been paid to the role of language in the Présence Africaine debates over B...
The discussion on decolonising the mind and turning to African indigenous knowledge tends to constru...
This book starts with Vansina, who holds that old cultural traditions in Africa have been destroyed,...
The literature on colonialism tends to focus on Europe’s economic exploitation of many regions and p...
This book discovers freedom in the colonial idea of African primitiveness. As human transcendence, f...
The bulk of the book is based on papers presented during two virtual conferences hosted by the Unive...
A discussion on knowledge independence or knowledge-production decolonization with the assumption th...
The emergence of European forces in Africa between the 1870s and 1900 marked the threshold of a new ...
Part of a special issue on international perspectives on education and decolonization. The writer ex...
Language, Culture and Decolonisation discusses the importance of language in decoloniality from a gl...
Decolonizing the Mind by Ngugi Wa Thiong’o is a seminal work that highlights the importance of langu...
In his article, Language and Culture in African Postcolonial Literature, Kwaku Asante-Darko offers...
In the 1960s, much diatribe was exchanged by African literary artists within their caucus, and outsi...
This paper draws attention to the relevance of decolonization as a notion and process for education ...
One of the touchstones in the pursuit of literacy excellence, according to Longinus, is the creation...
Very little attention has been paid to the role of language in the Présence Africaine debates over B...
The discussion on decolonising the mind and turning to African indigenous knowledge tends to constru...
This book starts with Vansina, who holds that old cultural traditions in Africa have been destroyed,...
The literature on colonialism tends to focus on Europe’s economic exploitation of many regions and p...
This book discovers freedom in the colonial idea of African primitiveness. As human transcendence, f...
The bulk of the book is based on papers presented during two virtual conferences hosted by the Unive...
A discussion on knowledge independence or knowledge-production decolonization with the assumption th...