Indigeneity, Globalization, and African Literature

Tanure Ojaide is Frank Porter Graham Professor in the Africana Studies Department at the University of North Carolina, USA.

"A frank and passionate celebration and defense of the dignity and desirability of the indigenous in an age of specious globalization. Literate, up-to-date, and wide-ranging, Indigeneity, Globalization, and African Literature is a welcome intervention by one of the most assiduous workers in the vineyard of African letters."-Niyi Osundare, Distinguished Professor, University of New Orleans, USA "A thoughtful, lucid, and much needed exploration of the dynamics of African literature in general and Nigerian literature in particular, with special reference to indigeneity and the pressures of globalization! The book is especially significant as coming from the pen of someone who has experienced the impact of various cultures and is himself actively involved in literary production."-Eustace Palmer, Professor of English, Georgia College, USA

• Introduction                                                                                                                1. The Black Nationalist Movement in Azania                                                           2. BC and its Fortunes After 1976                                                                                           3. BC in the Postapartheid Era                                                                                                                                 4. Some Considerations in a Youth Political Movement                    5. Youth Politics, Agency and Subjectivity                                                                                                     6. The Social Construction of Blackness in Azania                                                     7. The Black Middle Class and Black Struggles                                                                                              8. Culture and History in the Black Struggles for Liberation                                                 9. Collaboration, Complicity and “Selling – Out” In South Africa Historiography                                                                                   10. Transference and Re (de) placement andThe edge Towards a Postcolonial Conundrum                                                                                                                                              11. The Idea of the Nation in South Africa, 1940 to post 1994: Conceptualisations from the Black Liberation Movement                                                                                                                12. Symbols, Symbolism and the New Social Order