2 - Variations in Postcolonial Imagination: Reflection on Senghor, Nyerere and Nkrumah

Q4 Social Sciences

Africa Development/Afrique et Developpement Pub Date : 2022-01-19 DOI:10.57054/ad.v47i1.1789

J. Adesina

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Abstract

This article aims to strengthen contemporary efforts to construct and pursue a pan-African agenda by interrogating the postcolonial imaginings of Léopold Sédar Senghor, Julius Nyerere and Kwame Nkrumah. To counter the present-day tendency to erase and flatten the diversity of this period, the article explores the variations and similarities of the three leaders’ approaches to socialism, pan-African unity, nationhood, economic development, epistemology and democracy. Through this contrast, the article derives some broad lessons for the contemporary period, including the importance of cultivating domestic resources (human, material and financial) rather than being dependent on external forces; the need for countries to construct a macro-vision that coordinates their economic, social and political projects; and the importance of maintaining sovereignty of thought in policy thinking on the continent to effectively break free from the universal, market-based prescriptions that now dominate under neoliberalism. Jimi O. Adesina, Professor and the DSI/NRF Chair of Social Policy, University of South Africa / Post-Colonialisms Today researcher. Email: jotadesina@gmail.com

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2-后殖民想象的变化：对桑戈尔、尼雷尔和恩克鲁玛的反思

本文旨在通过对lsamopold ssamdar Senghor, Julius Nyerere和Kwame Nkrumah的后殖民想象的质疑，加强当代构建和追求泛非议程的努力。为了对抗当今抹杀和扁平化这一时期多样性的倾向，本文探讨了三位领导人在社会主义、泛非统一、国家、经济发展、认识论和民主方面的差异和相似之处。通过这种对比，本文得出了一些对当代的广泛启示，包括重视培育国内资源(人力、物力和财力)，而不是依赖外部力量;各国需要建立宏观愿景，协调其经济、社会和政治项目;以及在非洲大陆的政策思维中维护思想主权的重要性，以有效地摆脱目前在新自由主义下占主导地位的普遍的、以市场为基础的处方。Jimi O. Adesina，教授，南非大学DSI/NRF社会政策主席/后殖民主义今日研究员。电子邮件:jotadesina@gmail.com

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Africa Development/Afrique et Developpement Social Sciences-Political Science and International Relations

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期刊介绍： Africa Development (ISSN 0850 3907) is the quarterly bilingual journal of CODESRIA published since 1976. It is a social science journal whose major focus is on issues which are central to the development of society. Its principal objective is to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas among African scholars from a variety of intellectual persuasions and various disciplines. The journal also encourages other contributors working on Africa or those undertaking comparative analysis of developing world issues. Africa Development welcomes contributions which cut across disciplinary boundaries. Articles with a narrow focus and incomprehensible to people outside their discipline are unlikely to be accepted.