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Nationalism and African Intellectuals

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Falola and Agbo offer an engaging analysis of African nationalism since the nineteenth century. The constant question confronting African intellectual thought for two centuries now has been: Against the background of Western incursion, how can Africa uplift itself? Falola and Agbo examine the intersection between nationalism and African intellectuals in the quest by African elites to address issues of tradition, change, politics, and power. They discuss efforts by African elites to reconstruct a new image for Africa; how nationalism shaped the production of knowledge and influenced politics in Africa; the relationship between African intelligentsia and the Europeans and subsequent state formations; the contradictions manifested within Pan-Africanism and nationalism; and the relation of academic institutions and intellectual production to the state during the nationalist period and beyond.

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  1. Department of History, The University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA

    Toyin Falola & Chukwuemeka Agbo

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  1. History Department, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, USA

    Martin S. Shanguhyia

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    Toyin Falola

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Falola, T., Agbo, C. (2018). Nationalism and African Intellectuals. In: Shanguhyia, M., Falola, T. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of African Colonial and Postcolonial History. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59426-6_25

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