This edited collection explores how African artists use their art to articulate the need for a return to the traditional African vision of communal solidarity, hospitality, and respect of humanity. The collection highlights the artists’ exposure of the catastrophic effects of the abandonment of African humanism on African culture and life.
This edited collection explores how African artists use their art to articulate the need for a return to the traditional African vision of communal solidarity, hospitality, and respect of humanity. The collection highlights the artists’ exposure of the catastrophic effects of the abandonment of African humanism on African culture and life.
Lifongo Vetindeis professor of French and francophone studies at Lawrence University. Jean-Blaise Samou is assistant professor of francophone and intercultural studies at Saint Mary's University.
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Introduction: The Crisis of Humanism in Contemporary Africa Lifongo Vetinde and Jean-Blaise Samou Part I: Foundational Visions Chapter One: Humanist Thought in African Oral Literature Adrien Mbar Pouille Chapter Two: Ritual and Humanism in Zakes Mda's She Plays with the Darkness Thomas Spreelin MacDonald Chapter Three: "Through the Eyes of Dogs": Reflections on Misanthropy and Humanism in a Senegalese Novel Lifongo Vetinde Part II: Power, Dystopia, and Postcolonial Violence Chapter Four: "Remember the Children": Humanism in Contemporary East African Fiction Marie-Thérèse Toyi Chapter Five: André Brink and the Politics of Humanism Hervé Tchumkam Chapter Six: Of Painting and Politics: Postcolonial Violence and the Rhetoric of Feymania in Cameroon Jean-Blaise Samou Part III: History, Trauma and the Pedagogy of Human Rights Chapter Seven: Ojukwu's War Speeches and the Rhetoric of Humanism Uchenna David Uwakwe Chapter Eight: Drawing (on) the Past in Histories of the Present: Dialogues and Drawings of Women's Organized Resistance to Forced Removals in South Africa's Past and Present Koni Benson Chapter Nine: Remembering the Past and Building the Future in Boubacar Boris Diop's Murambi, the Book of Bones Mohamed Kamara Chapter Ten: An Exploration of Human Rights in the Postcolonial Text: "The Conspiracy" by Henri Lopes Janice Spleth
Introduction: The Crisis of Humanism in Contemporary Africa Lifongo Vetinde and Jean-Blaise Samou Part I: Foundational Visions Chapter One: Humanist Thought in African Oral Literature Adrien Mbar Pouille Chapter Two: Ritual and Humanism in Zakes Mda's She Plays with the Darkness Thomas Spreelin MacDonald Chapter Three: "Through the Eyes of Dogs": Reflections on Misanthropy and Humanism in a Senegalese Novel Lifongo Vetinde Part II: Power, Dystopia, and Postcolonial Violence Chapter Four: "Remember the Children": Humanism in Contemporary East African Fiction Marie-Thérèse Toyi Chapter Five: André Brink and the Politics of Humanism Hervé Tchumkam Chapter Six: Of Painting and Politics: Postcolonial Violence and the Rhetoric of Feymania in Cameroon Jean-Blaise Samou Part III: History, Trauma and the Pedagogy of Human Rights Chapter Seven: Ojukwu's War Speeches and the Rhetoric of Humanism Uchenna David Uwakwe Chapter Eight: Drawing (on) the Past in Histories of the Present: Dialogues and Drawings of Women's Organized Resistance to Forced Removals in South Africa's Past and Present Koni Benson Chapter Nine: Remembering the Past and Building the Future in Boubacar Boris Diop's Murambi, the Book of Bones Mohamed Kamara Chapter Ten: An Exploration of Human Rights in the Postcolonial Text: "The Conspiracy" by Henri Lopes Janice Spleth
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