@article{ART002095204},
author={Lee, Hyoseok},
title={Ngugi wa Thiong‘o’s Pan - Africanism: People’s Memory and Alliance to Overcome Postcolonial Nations},
journal={Cross-Cultural Studies},
issn={1598-0685},
year={2016},
volume={42},
pages={107-129},
doi={10.21049/ccs.2016.42..107}
TY - JOUR
AU - Lee, Hyoseok
TI - Ngugi wa Thiong‘o’s Pan - Africanism: People’s Memory and Alliance to Overcome Postcolonial Nations
JO - Cross-Cultural Studies
PY - 2016
VL - 42
IS - null
PB - Center for Cross Culture Studies
SP - 107
EP - 129
SN - 1598-0685
AB - In modern history, there have been several kinds of continental unions or supranational politico-economic unions in the world, such as the United Nations, the European Union, the Union of South American Nations, the African Union, etc. Modern thinkers proposed many pan-isms on their continental base, for example, Pan-Arabism, Pan-Latin Americanism, Pan-Asianism, Pan-Celtism, etc. What is the most common in these pan-isms is that a continental union would be a politico-economic system to overcome the limits of the modern state-nation and to realize a long and happy relationship between member nations and continents.
However, the concept of a supranational union differs from that of cosmopolitanism, in that the former presupposes the common cultural and historical heritage in the concerned region or continent. Ngugi wa Thinog’o’ Pan-Africanism implies two keywords that are connected to his concepts such as ‘decentralization’ and ‘African languages.’ Pan-Africanism supposes that Africa may gain benefits from the union of African nations under the umbrella of anti-colonial efforts to down size the Euro-American influences. Moreover, using African languages enhances self-reliance and self-imagination among the African people. For in the former colonial regimes, the European colonial languages, such as English, French, or Portuguese, were central to the dissemination of European culture and modernity.
Ngugi asserts that the African peripheralized languages could reinstate the African cultural heritage and propose an alternative to the Western modernity.
KW - Ngugi wa Thiong'o;Pan-Africanism;Frantz Fanon;postcolonial;black consciousness
DO - 10.21049/ccs.2016.42..107
ER -
Lee, Hyoseok. (2016). Ngugi wa Thiong‘o’s Pan - Africanism: People’s Memory and Alliance to Overcome Postcolonial Nations. Cross-Cultural Studies, 42, 107-129.
Lee, Hyoseok. 2016, "Ngugi wa Thiong‘o’s Pan - Africanism: People’s Memory and Alliance to Overcome Postcolonial Nations", Cross-Cultural Studies, vol.42, pp.107-129. Available from: doi:10.21049/ccs.2016.42..107
Lee, Hyoseok "Ngugi wa Thiong‘o’s Pan - Africanism: People’s Memory and Alliance to Overcome Postcolonial Nations" Cross-Cultural Studies 42 pp.107-129 (2016) : 107.
Lee, Hyoseok. Ngugi wa Thiong‘o’s Pan - Africanism: People’s Memory and Alliance to Overcome Postcolonial Nations. 2016; 42 107-129. Available from: doi:10.21049/ccs.2016.42..107
Lee, Hyoseok. "Ngugi wa Thiong‘o’s Pan - Africanism: People’s Memory and Alliance to Overcome Postcolonial Nations" Cross-Cultural Studies 42(2016) : 107-129.doi: 10.21049/ccs.2016.42..107
Lee, Hyoseok. Ngugi wa Thiong‘o’s Pan - Africanism: People’s Memory and Alliance to Overcome Postcolonial Nations. Cross-Cultural Studies, 42, 107-129. doi: 10.21049/ccs.2016.42..107
Lee, Hyoseok. Ngugi wa Thiong‘o’s Pan - Africanism: People’s Memory and Alliance to Overcome Postcolonial Nations. Cross-Cultural Studies. 2016; 42 107-129. doi: 10.21049/ccs.2016.42..107
Lee, Hyoseok. Ngugi wa Thiong‘o’s Pan - Africanism: People’s Memory and Alliance to Overcome Postcolonial Nations. 2016; 42 107-129. Available from: doi:10.21049/ccs.2016.42..107
Lee, Hyoseok. "Ngugi wa Thiong‘o’s Pan - Africanism: People’s Memory and Alliance to Overcome Postcolonial Nations" Cross-Cultural Studies 42(2016) : 107-129.doi: 10.21049/ccs.2016.42..107
