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Informationen zum Autor Bjorn Beckman is a Research Professor in the Department of Political Science! Stockholm University. Gbemisola Remi Adeoti (Ph D) is a Lecturer in the Department of English! Obafemi Awolowo University! Ile Ife! Nigeria! Klappentext Drawn from a CODESRIA conference on 'Intellectuals and Nationalism'! this book features essays that look at different responses to the African predicament from prominent writers like Soyinka! Ngugi! and Achebe! the military men in power and the students who defy repression. Zusammenfassung Drawn from a CODESRIA conference on 'Intellectuals and Nationalism'! the essays of this book look at different responses to the African predicament from prominent writers like Soyinka! Ngugi! and Achebe! the military men in power and the students who defy repression. Inhaltsverzeichnis Predicament and Response: An Introduction - Bjorn Beckman and Gbemisola Adeoti Part 1: Intellectuals! Writers! and Soldiers 1. Psychopaths in Power: The Collapse of the African Dream in 'A Play of Giants' - Olusegun Adekoya 2. Re-establishing the Basis of Social Order: A reflection on Achebe's Reformist Agenda and Ngugi's Marxist Aesthetics - M. S. C. Okolo 3. Narrating the Green Gods: The (Auto) biographies of Nigerian Military Rulers - Gbemisola Adeoti Part 2: Students! Youths and People 4. Ambiguous Transitions: Mediating Citizenship among Youths in Cameroon - Jude Fokwang 5. Student Radicalism and the National Project: The Nigerian Student Movement - Bjorn Beckman 6. Transnational Governance and the Pacification of Youth: Civic Education and Disempowerment in Malawi - Harri Englund 7. Identity and Knowledge Production in the Fourth Generation - Nana Akua Anyidoho Contributors; Index.
