Africa in a multilateral world : Afropolitan dilemmas /: Afropolitan dilemmas. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Albert Kasanda and Marek Hrubec.
• Editors: Kasanda Lumembu, Albert; Hrubec, Marek
• Contents: Introduction, Albert Kasanda and Marek Hrubec Part 1: Preconditions of Africa’s participation in the multilateral world 1. Towards Africa’s Model in a Polylateral World: The chronology and foreign power interactions, Marek Hrubec 2. A Trans-modern Quest for Decolonization in the Postcolonial Philosophy, Binyam Mekonnen 3. The problematic non-western cosmopolitanism in Africa today: Grappling with a modernity outside history, Stephen Chan Part 2: Afropolitan trends and limits 4. Afropolitanism as a critique of conventional narratives of African identity and emancipation, Albert Kasanda 5. Ubuntu and the concept of cosmopolitanism, Anke Graness 6. Afropolitan narratives and empathy: Migrant identities in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah and Sefi Atta’s A Bit of Difference, Dobrota Pucherová Part 3: The specific global African tendencies and potentials 7. The Youth and the Clans – the Somali Society and al-Shabaab, Viktor Marsai 8. Ego in traditional political power of Guinea-Bissau: a challenge to cosmopolitanism?, Claudia Favarato 9. The Demographics of Power Relations: Africa’s changing global position, Valeria Bankoóvá 10. Digital transformation of Africa: on track to be connected to the global digital economy?, Tereza Němečková Part 4: African genre and language ambivalences in the global interactions 11. Understanding the Philosophy of Africa in a Cosmopolitan and Multilateral World through Language, Mary Stella C. Okolo 12. Philosophy and genre: African philosophy in texts, Alena Rettová 13. Englishes and cosmopolitanisms in South Africa, Stephanie Rudwick
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 327.6; Cosmopolitanism -- Africa; Africa -- Foreign relations; Africa -- Civilization
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000415964; 9781000415940; 9781003187097
• Related ISBNs: 9781032033891
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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