African Consciousness

Stone, Leonard

doi:10.1007/s12111-018-9408-6

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“…The point, here, is Africans afflicted with cargo cult mentalities would similarly be tempted to dump their own spouses and look for spouses from elsewhere outside the continent; similarly, such afflicted Africans would be tempted to dump their own African education and look for education elsewhere; in the same vein, the afflicted Africans would always dump African publications and look for books published elsewhere outside the continent; they would even uncritically dump African publishers and look for publishers elsewhere outside the continent. As Stone (2018) argues, the idea for African anthropologists should be to strategically aim to reconstruct, redirect and combatively recentre African subjects as sovereign entities, and to develop African consciousness in which the solid structure of African consciousness, intention and expectation are centred.…”

Section: Anthropology and The Instantiations Of The Melanesian Cargo ...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Academics with Clay Feet? Anthropological Perspectives on Academic Freedom in Twenty-First Century African Universities

Nhemachena

Mawere

2022

J Afr Am St

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Clay feet are heavy and disabling, sadly in the decolonial scholarly battlefield which otherwise requires all-weather feet suitable for ongoing battles. Drawing on autoethnographic experiences in some African universities and drawing on Melanesian cargo cults, this paper argues that to decolonise Africa, African academics should abate cargo cult mentalities which account for pathological and uncritical intellectual dependence on theories, ideas and models from elsewhere. Similarly, drawing on Melanesian bigmanism and drawing on how some academics seek to control how students and colleagues think and write, this paper contends that those that pose as bigmen and bigwomen in African universities are a serious threat to decolonial critical, creative, innovative and original thinking. Thus, populated with some highranking academics who, nonetheless, lack decolonial creativity, originality, innovativeness and critical thinking, African universities are -like in Melanesian bigmen societies -marked by patron-client relations within which students and colleagues are sadly corralled into epistemic clientelism.

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Section: Anthropology and The Instantiations Of The Melanesian Cargo ...mentioning

confidence: 99%