Africa and the Challenge of Modernity

• Published in: Endangered African Knowledges and the Challenge of Modernity pp. 8 - 48
• Main Author: Ude, Donald Mark C.
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: United Kingdom Routledge 2024; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1

This chapter places the book within the purview of scholarship on Africa and its attempt to grapple with the challenge modernity presents, drawing on the insights of such key thinkers as Frantz Fanon, Achille Mbembe, Chinua Achebe, Ngugi wa Thiong' O, Pauline Hountondji, and Kwame Gyekye. The k...