Close to the Sources

Abebe Zegeye is Director of the Hawke Institute at the University of South Australia.Maurice Vambe is Professor in the Department of English Studies at University of South Africa.

• 1. Introduction: The Assault on African Cultures 2. Notes on Theorising Black Diaspora in Africa 3. On the Postcolony and the Vulgarisation of Political Criticism 4. Rethinking the Epistemic Conditions of Genocide in Africa 5. African Indigenous Knowledge Systems 6. Knowledge Production and Publishing in Africa 7. Amilcar Cabral: National Liberation as the Basis of Africa’s Renaissances 8. Amilcar Cabral and the Fortunes of African Literature 9. Perspectives on Africanising Educational Curricula in Africa 10. Voices from the Fringes: Some Reflections on Postcolonial South African Writings