Archie Mafeje: scholar, activist and thinker
Archie Mafeje was an independent Pan-Africanist and cosmopolitan individual who sought to understand the world at a global level in order to locate Africa within that tapestry. In many ways, Archie Mafeje was one of the African intellectual pathfinders. He contributed immensely to the African people's search for self-understanding, self-determination and political emancipation as they struggled against alienation and misrepresentation. In recognizing the academic and intellectual contribution o…
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- Full title :Archie Mafeje : scholar, activist and thinker / Dani W. Nabudere.
Summary
Archie Mafeje was an independent Pan-Africanist and cosmopolitan individual who sought to understand the world at a global level in order to locate Africa within that tapestry. In many ways, Archie Mafeje was one of the African intellectual pathfinders. He contributed immensely to the African people's search for self-understanding, self-determination and political emancipation as they struggled against alienation and misrepresentation. In recognizing the academic and intellectual contribution of Archie Mafeje, this monograph also reflects on the African people's journey for emancipation in the search for African identity, self-control and self-understanding.
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- Publication Date:2011.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Africa Institute of South Africa
- Place of Publication:Pretoria
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2011.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (111 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780798303354, 0798303352, 9780798303224, 0798303220
- oclc:ocn801407252
- LC Classification:GN21.M23
- Dewey Decimal:306.01
Table of Contents
Introduction -- Who is Archie Mafeje? -- Mafeje's ideological and philosophical orientations -- The critique of anthropology and alterity -- The study of rural African society -- Culture as the 'missing link' in African development -- The issue of 'social formations' of African society -- Mafeje's attempts to endogenise and deconstruct knowledge production -- The African post-colonial states and the African political elite -- Mafeje and African philosophy -- The Interlacustrine Kingdoms as 'social formations' -- Mafeje -- the South African radical -- Cosmology, epistemology and academic disciplines -- Conclusion.
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