Intellectuals and African development :  pretension and resistance in African politics / 
 Pretension and resistance in African politics 
Bjorn Beckman & Gbemisola Adeoti, editors. 
 - Dakar, Senegal :  London ;  New York :  Pretoria, South Africa :  New York :  CODESRIA ;  in association with Zed Books ;  in association with UNISA Press ;  Distributed in the United States by Palgrave Macmillan,  2006. 
 - 178 pages ;  22 cm. 
 - Africa in the new millennium .
 - Africa in the new millennium. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Psychopaths in power: the collapse of the African dream in A Play of Giants / Olusegun Adekoya -- Re-establishing the basis of social order in Africa: a reflection on Achebe's reformist agenda and Ngugi's Marxist aesthetics / M.S.C. Okolo -- Narrating the green gods: the (auto) biographies of Nigerian military rulers / Gbemisola Adeoti -- Ambiguous transitions: mediating citizenship among youth in Cameroon / Jude Fokwang -- Student radicalism and the national project: the Nigerian student movement / Bj�orn Beckman -- Transnational governance and the pacification of youth: civic education and disempowerment in Malawi / Harri Englund -- Identity and knowledge production in the fourth generation / Nana Akua Anyidoho. 
<br/><br/> "This book looks 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. It suggests that intervention by international agencies who claim to promote "democracy" and "empower the youth" may reinforce authoritarian attitudes and structures, and gives voice to the outrage, ridicule, revolutionary ardour and reformist caution of those directly affected. It also exposes the shallow pretences of those in power as well as the hypocrisy and arrogance of the foreign helpers, and concludes that being an "insider" or an "outsider" is less important than being committed to listen to ordinary people."--Back cover 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1842777645 9781842777640 1842777653 9781842777657 2869781962 9782869781962 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2006032630 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBA693294  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>013555862  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Chronological Terms: </label><br/>Since 1960 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Political culture--Africa.<br/>International agencies--Africa.<br/>Organisations internationales--Afrique.<br/>International agencies.<br/>Political culture.<br/>Politics and government.<br/>Social conditions.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Africa--Politics and government--1960-<br/>Subsaharisches Afrika<br/>Afrika.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Aufsatzsammlung.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>JQ1879.A15  / I8