Through the work of leading African writers, artists, musicians and educators—from Nobel prizewinner Wole Soyinka to names hardly known outside their native lands—An African Voice describes the contributions of the humanities to the achievement of independence for the peoples of black Africa following the Second World War. While concentrating on cultural independence, these leading humanists also demonstrate the intimate connection between cultural freedom and genuine political economic liberty.
- Contents
- Preface
- Prologue: A Candle at Kilimanjaro
- Part 1 The Crisis of Independence
- 1 Colonial Legacies
- The Ambiguities of Colonialism
- Antecedents
- The Shock of Colonialism
- Neocolonial Influences
- The Urge for Cultural Independence
- 2 Prisence Africaine and the Expression of Cultural Freedom
- The Meaning of Independence: Julius Nyerere and Sékou Tourí
- The First International Congress of Black Writers and Artists
- Negritude
- Présence Américaine
- Pan-Africanism or Communism?
- A Congress Cultural or a Congress Political?
- Part 2 The Arts and Cultural Independence
- 3 The Visual Arts and African Independence
- The Humanist and the Intangibles of Independence
- The Decline of Excellence
- Oku Ampofo and the Akwapim Six
- 4 The Independent African Theater
- African Theatrics
- Ibadan University and the Eclectic Theater of Nigeria
- The Pedagogical Theater of Efua Sutherland
- 5 Africans Dance
- Africa Still Dances
- The Musician
- The Catalyst
- The Dancer
- Les Ballets Africains
- 6 Literary Perspectives of Cultural Independence
- Three Novels
- Independence
- Uncertainty
- Affirmation
- Part 3 Educational Independence
- 7 The Search for a Usable Past
- The Uses of History
- Negro Nations and Their Culture
- History at Ibadan
- The Question of Oral Tradition
- A Usable Past
- 8 The Idea of an African University
- Early Educational Theories
- African Education at University College of the Gold Coast
- Nkrumah at Legon
- Nkrumah Chooses a Vice-Chancellor
- 9 Organizing Africana
- The Pros and Cons of African Studies
- African Studies in Ghana
- The African Studies Institute—University of Ibadan
- Part 4 A Modern African Civilization
- 10 The African Personality and Europe
- Identity Quandaries
- The Assault of Scientific Racism
- Black Orpheus
- The Flight from Europe–Frantz Fanon
- The Flight from Europe–Medicine in Africa
- The African Identity and the New African Philosophy
- 11 An African Voice
- Bellagio
- In Defense of African Culture
- Technology and African Culture
- The Evolution of an African Designer
- An African Voice
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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