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• Title: Close to the Sources: Essays on Contemporary African Culture, Politics and Academy (Book Review)
• Author : Critical Arts
• Release Date : January 01, 2011
• Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 183 KB

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Abebe Zegeye and Maurice Vambe. 2009. Close to the sources: essays on contemporary African culture, politics and academy. Pretoria: University of South Africa and Oxford: Routledge. (ISBN: 978-1-86888-540-4, 172 pp.) This is a polemical critique written by Africa's well notable scholars on identity and culture. Zegeye and Vambe bring together ten chapters which are made up of a series of papers presented in conferences and lectures in different countries, as well as reworked articles published in journals over a period of four years. The book fundamentally arises out of the authors' interest in Amilcar Cabral's views on culture as a significant African revolutionary, an able political leader, a profound cultural theorist and a provocative philosopher of the African struggle for freedom. The authors use the show-casing metaphor 'Close to the sources' in the title of the book in a dexterous adaptation of Cabral's concept of 'the return to the sources'. This is a celebration of Cabral's thesis, as well as a revision of Cabral's assumptions, one of which is that any return to the source is not problematic. This inflection of Zegeye and Vambe's book is new; it is more profoundly a rallying call to adopt Cabral's revolutionary conscience in dealing with African development issues today, as well as to question the terms on which any new project that seeks to recover the meanings of Africa's pasts can be based.

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