African potentials : bricolage, incompleteness and lifeness
edited by Itaru Ohta, Francis B. Nyamnjoh & Motoji Matsuda
| Year of publication: |
[2022]
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| Other Persons: | Ōta, Itaru (ed.) ; Nyamnjoh, Francis B. (ed.) ; Matsuda, Motoji (ed.) |
| Publisher: |
2022: Mankon, Bamenda : Langaa RPCIG |
| Subject: | Gesellschaft | Society | Kulturelle Identität | Cultural identity | Soziale Werte | Social values | Kultursoziologie | Cultural sociology | Afrika | Africa |
| Extent: | xii, 319 Seiten Illustrationen |
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| Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
| Type of publication (narrower categories): | Aufsatzsammlung |
| Language: | English |
| Notes: | Part 1: How African Society Can Be Decolonised and Liberated DECOLONIALITY: Who is Afraid of Epistemic Relativism? Disentangling African Philosophy from the ‘Universalist’ Entrapment / Husein Inusah UNIVERSALS: Activating Latent Cultural Potentials and Social Prescriptions: The Potential for Emancipatory Political Thought in African Popular Cultures / Michael Neocosmos MOBILITY: Mobility as Freedom, and Hospitality as Kinship: Reflections on the African Potentials for Using Solidarity to Manage Global Challenges / Owen B. Sichone Part 2: How Contradictions Are Resolved NEGOTIATION: Palaver and Consensus: How Contradictions Are Reconciled in Africa / Itaru Ohta PEACEBUILDING: Exploring Local Peacebuilding Potentials in Northwestern Kenya: The Case of West Pokot / Elizabeth Ndunda and Kennedy Mkutu INGOVERNMENTALITY: ‘Eating Chiefs’: Explaining the Tolerance of the People of South Sudan for Bad Political Leaders / Eisei Kurimoto Part 3: How We Confront the Hegemonic System of the Modern World KNOWLEDGE: Knowledge Sharing: Epistemology Lessons for Modern Culture from Traditional African Oral Culture / Shoko Yamada CHILDHOOD: Childhood and Children: Realities and Reimaginations in Sub-Sahara Africa’s Development / Yaw Ofosu-Kusi MONEY: How Money Builds Communities: A Study of ROSCAs in Cameroon and Japan / Misa Hirano-Nomoto CIRCULATION: Waste Valorisation and African Potentials: The Forgotten Life of Things and Their Rebirth in Mass Consumption Capitalism / Shuichi Oyama Part 4: How We Reconstruct This World from the Periphery INDIGENEITY: Indigeneity from the Vantage Point of African Potentials and a Re-visioning of African Realities / Edward K. Kirumira INCOMPLETENESS: Cecil John Rhodes: ‘The Complete Gentleman’ of Imperial Dominance / Francis B. Nyamnjoh EVERYDAYNESS: Everyday Lifeworld as a Source of Creativity for African Potentials / Motoji Matsuda Postscript: African Potentials and the Creation of an Alternative Future for Humanity / Itaru Ohta, Francis B. Nyamnjoh and Motoji Matsuda |
| ISBN: | 9956-552-30-5 ; 978-9956-552-30-6 |
| Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
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