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Title:Towards an African Renaissance: some thoughts on the Renaissance Conference September 28th & 29th 1998 and its future implications
Author:Dalamba, YolisaISNI
Year:2000
Periodical:Critical Arts: A Journal of Media Studies
Volume:14
Issue:1
Pages:44-72
Language:English
Geographic term:South Africa
Subjects:1998
cultural policy
education
conference papers (form)
External link:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02560040085310041
Abstract:These reflections on the implications of a continent-wide liberatory transformation were inspired by the conference held in Johannesburg in September 1998 to debate Thabo Mbeki's African Renaissance initiative. The author, a female African academic at a leading South African tertiary institution, focuses on culture, education, and issues of race and gender as they impinge on the concept of an African Renaissance. She argues that the Renaissance needs to be structurally and emotionally located on a much stronger foundation. The call for an African Renaissance should be one that embraces all Africans including those of the diaspora. Basic targets for mobilization and action should be Afrocentric curricula and schools that are aimed at teaching an Afrocentric programme; Afrocentric multimedia systems and programmes which seek to address negative as well as underrepresentations of Africans and Africa in and by the media; the promotion of African knowledge systems and the celebration of Africa's contribution to global development. In face of blatant and ubiquitous recolonization, Africa needs a Renaissance or it will self-destruct. Bibliogr., note, ref.
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