Chapter 2 Mahmood Mamdani’s Contribution to Rethinking Thinking on Africa

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents iii
3. Foreword v
4. Dedication ix
5. Acknowledgements x
6. Notes on Contributors xi
7. Chapter 1 An Argument for Revisiting African Voices in Search of a Decolonial Turn 1
8. Chapter 2 Mahmood Mamdani’s Contribution to Rethinking Thinking on Africa 12
9. Chapter 3 From North Africa to Europe 31
10. Chapter 4 ‘The Camel Can Never See Its Own Hump’ Metahumanism in the Fiction of Ibrahim al-Koni 53
11. Chapter 5 A Dialogue of Civilisations 74
12. Chapter 6 On African-American Consciousness of Africa 94
13. Chapter 7 African Self-Reliance, Self-Determination, Unity and Repatriation 116
14. Chapter 8 Africanity as Self-Assertion, Self-Affirmation and Self-Determination The Legacy of Archie Mafeje 134
15. Chapter 9 (Re)Visiting Molefi Kete Asante’s Theory of Afrocentricity 152
16. Chapter 10 Ad Fontes 169
17. Chapter 11 Wangari Maathai’s Afrocentric Decolonial Environmentalist Struggle 190
18. Chapter 12 Claude Ake’s Critical Thinking about African Democracy 215
19. Chapter 13 Daring African Resolutions to African Problems 233
20. Chapter 14 The Manichean Structure and Frantz Fanon in Post-1994 South Africa 251
21. Chapter 15 The Weapon of Theory 272
22. Chapter 16 Isaac Bangani Tabata on the Purpose, Trajectory and Limitations of the Liberation Struggle 293
23. Chapter 17 Adebayo Adedeji on Africa’s Regional Integration and Self-Reliance 315
24. Index 333