Encountering the Nigerian State
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Africa Connects
ISBN-10
0230622348
ISBN-13
9780230622340
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint
Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 18th, 2010
Print length
269 Pages
Weight
430 grams
Dimensions
21.80 x 14.90 x 2.00 cms
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Thisvolume advances extant reflections on the state constituted as the Ur-Power in society, particularly in Africa.It analyzes how various agents within the Nigerian society'encounter' the state - ranging from the most routine form of contact to thespectacular.
In examining the intellectual history in contemporary South Africa, Eze engages with the emergence of ubuntu as one discourse that has become a mirror and aftermath of South Africa''s overall historical narrative. This book interrogates a triple socio-political representation of ubuntu as a displacement narrative for South Africa''s colonial consciousness; as offering a new national imaginary through its inclusive consciousness, in which different, competing, and often antagonistic memories and histories are accommodated; and as offering a historicity in which the past is transformed as a symbol of hope for the present and the future. This book offers a model for African intellectual history indignant to polemics but constitutive of creative historicism and healthy humanism.
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