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Volume II of Africa's Radicalisms and Conservatisms continues the broad themes of radicalisms and conservatisms that were examined in volume I. Like volume I, the essays examine why the two "isms" of radicalisms and conservatisms should not be viewed as mere irreconcilable conceptual tools with which to categorize or structure knowledge. The volume demonstrates that these concepts are intertwined, have multiple and diverse meanings as perceived and understood from different disciplinary vantage points, hence, the deliberate pluralization of the terms. The twenty-two essays in the volume show what happens when one juxtaposes the two concepts and when different peoples' lived experiences of politics, pop culture, democracy, liberalism, the environment, colonialism, migration, identities, and knowledge, etc. across the length and breadth of Africa are brought to bear on our understandings of these two particularisms.
Contributors are: Adesoji Oni, Admire M. Nyamwanza, Akin Tella, Akinpelu Ayokunnu Oyekunle, Bamidele Omotunde Alabi, Charles Nkem Okolie, Craig Calhoun, Diana Ekor Ofana, Edwin Etieyibo, Folusho Ayodeji, Gabriel Akinbode, Godwin Oboh, Joseph C. A. Agbakoba, Julius Niringiyimana, Lucky Uchenna Ogbonnaya, Maxwell Mudhara, Muchaparara Musemwa, Nathan Osareme Odiase, Obvious Katsaura, Okpowhoavotu Dan Ekere, Olaniran Olakunle Lateef, Omolara V. Akinyemi, Owen Mafongoya, Paramu Mafongoya, Philip Onyekachukwu Egbule,
Rutanga Murindwa, Sandra Bhatasara, Takesure Taringana, Tunde A. Abioro, Victor Clement Nweke, William Muhumuza, and Zainab M. Olaitan.
Contents
Preface
List of Boxes, Maps and Tables
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Edwin Etieyibo, Obvious Katsaura and Muchaparara Musemwa
PART 1: Pop-Culture, Identities, Knowledge, and Politics
1 Knowledge and Social Transformations in Africa
Craig Calhoun
2 Belongingness and Obligation to the Community: Rethinking the Foundation for Human Flourishing in the 21st Century
Victor Clement Nweke and Charles Nkem Okolie
3 Democracy, Politics, and the Media in Nigeria
Edwin Etieyibo and Godwin Ehiarekhian Oboh
4 Implications of Ubuntu for Ordinary Encounters in South Africa: A Philosophical Enquiry
Diana Ekor Ofana
5 Axiological Proximisation and Discourse Strategies in Fela Anikulapo-Kuti's Anti-establishment Songs
Akin Tella
6 Multiple Social Identities: A Theoretical Review of the Complexities of Conflicting Social Identities
Ayodeji Folusho, Akinbode A. Gabriel and Nathan Osareme Odiase
7 Discourse on Restructuring in Nigeria
Edwin Etieyibo
PART 2: Environment, Climate Change and Justice
8 Ezi n'ulo as an African Paradigm for Eco-conservation
Lucky Uchenna Ogbonnaya
9 'De-Epistemiciding' Knowledge in the Quest for Environmental Justice in Post-colonial Africa
Akinpelu Ayokunnu Oyekunle
10 Climate Injustice and the Role of Climate Justice Movements in Africa: The Case of Zimbabwe
Sandra Bhatasara and Admire M. Nyamwanza
11 The Role of Local Institutions in Building Smallholder Farmers' Adaptive Capacity against Climate Change Impacts in Bikita, Zimbabwe
Owen Mafongoya, Paramu Mafongoya and Maxwell Mudhara
PART 3: Colonialism and Globalization
12 The Anti-colonial Revolution Converse: Limitations of Nationalism and the Demands of Positive Freedom and Positive Justice
Joseph C. A. Agbakoba
13 Developing Nations and the Imperatives of Globalization
Philip Onyekachukwu Egbule
14 Racism, Colonialism and African Philosophy
Edwin Etieyibo
15 Global Oil Capital and the Alienation of Women Land Rights in Uganda's Oil Village Communities (OVC s)
Julius Niringiyimana, William Muhumuza and Rutanga Murindwa
16 Enclavism and Dependency: Coffee Production and Illusive Development in Zimbabwe
Takesure Taringana
17 Enlightenment Ideas and Colonialism
Zainab Monisola Olaitan
18 Mental Decolonization: Towards a Self-reliant Africa
Okpowhoavotu Dan Ekere
PART 4: Migration and Economy
19 A Liberal World With or Without Borders
Edwin Etieyibo
20 Trafficking and Migration Crises in West Africa: The Case of Nigeria and Benin Republic Border
Tunde A. Abioro and Omolara Victoria Akinyemi
21 Dialectics of Migration as a Vital Household Investment Strategy in Nigeria and a Major Source for Libya's 'Slave' Market
Bamidele Omotunde Alabi
22 Unemployment, Youth Restiveness and Skills Development in Nigeria
Adesoji A. Oni and Olakunle Lateef Olaniran
Index
