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A Post-Colonial Reconstruction of Africa
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2024
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A Post-Colonial Reconstruction of Africa surveys the significant reconstruction work undertaken in the social and political organization of sub-Saharan African society in the decades following the colonial interruption and subjects these efforts to rigorous criticism in order to establish whether they can carry the weight of modernization efforts in Africa. To examine the significant trends, it highlights the work of African intellectuals such as Kwasi Wiredu, Kwame Gyekye, Paulin Hountondji, Kwame Nkrumah, Anthony Appiah, Ato Sekyi-Otu, and Bernard Matolino. Pieter H. Coetzee argues that reconstruction inspired by traditional communitarian systems of social organization, including the modified form presented by Matolino, do not adequately do justice to the liberty aspirations of individuals in an era when the demand for increased democratization has become globally paramount. Reconstruction efforts inspired by appeal to native traditions of liberalism, including native conceptions of individual rights, fare better in this regard. However, current reconstruction efforts have done little to rescue Africans from the negative economic effects of colonialism and neo-colonialism and fail to alleviate self-perception problems created by Western racism. Appiah’s cosmopolitan option and Sekyi-Otu’s left universalism are notable exceptions.
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Edition
1/2024
Copyright Year
2024
ISBN-Print
978-1-7936-5569-1
ISBN-Online
978-1-7936-5570-7
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
224
Product Type
Monograph
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Preface No access
Acknowledgments No access
How Tradition Made Way for the Modern No access Pages 1 - 16
Kwasi Wiredu No access Pages 17 - 34
Kwame Gyekye No access Pages 35 - 56
The Liberty Limitations of Communitarianism No access Pages 57 - 72
Paulin Hountondji No access Pages 73 - 92
How McClendon’s African American Idea of Race Might Have Primed Hountondji’s Attack on Neocolonial Exploitation No access Pages 93 - 114
Kwame Anthony Appiah No access Pages 115 - 136
Ato Sekyi-Otu’s Left Universalism and Mogobe Ramose No access Pages 137 - 162
The Return of the Communitarians No access Pages 163 - 198
