Archie Mafeje scholar, activist and thinker /

Main Author: Nabudere, D. Wadada.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Pretoria : Africa Institute of South Africa, 2011.
Subjects:
Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10574645
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Who is Archie Mafeje?
  • Mafeje's ideological and philosophical orientations
  • The critique of anthropology and alterity
  • The study of rural African society
  • Culture as the 'missing link' in African development
  • The issue of 'social formations' of African society
  • Mafeje's attempts to endogenise and deconstruct knowledge production
  • The African post-colonial states and the African political elite
  • Mafeje and African philosophy
  • The Interlacustrine Kingdoms as 'social formations'
  • Mafeje - the South African radical
  • Cosmology, epistemology and academic disciplines
  • Conclusion.