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Beyond Words: Discourse and Critical Agency in Africa.

Publication: African Studies Quarterly
Publication Date: 22-SEP-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Beyond Words: Discourse and Critical Agency in Africa.(Book review)

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Beyond Words: Discourse and Critical Agency in Africa. Andrew Apter. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. 169 pp.

When in 1976, Wole Soyinka presented us with Myth, Literature and the African World, and in 1986, Ngugi wa Thiong'o offered us Decolonising the Mind, both writers indeed set in motion the relative beginning of what has become a recurrent debate in African critical discourse; namely, the search for indigenous African theorizing. Soyinka and Ngugi are however not alone in this on-going and self-conscious effort to move beyond colonial mentality and archives. Innumerable works by African(ist) scholars have sought to bring into focus the need to "return to the source" in order to adequately explicate the African experience in letters and conceptualization. Colonial distortions of facts aside,...

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