The Humanities and the Postcolonial Ghanaian Experience: The Jubilee Year

Kofi N. Awoonor

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Pages:: 32–44

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004392946_004

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In his essay, Kofi Awoonor examines what he terms the syndrome of a “massive inferiority complex” that the colonial system has unleashed upon Africans—a condition which is being reinforced through the colonial legacy of education. A corollary to this situation is that the encounter with the West has left Africans dispossessed and humiliated, their self-respect, confidence and identity all but eroded. For real decolonization to be achieved, Africans must restore their self-confidence and retain their identity as autonomous political agents. African humanities scholars can play a major role in this pursuit if their research addresses colonialism’s denigration of Africans and its distortion of their history and current reality. Their findings can then be made the knowledge foundation of a school education that can transform students into self-assured people ready to absorb the so-called global knowledge-system.

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Philosophical Foundations of the African Humanities through Postcolonial Perspectives

Series: Cross/Cultures, Volume: 209

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004392946

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 12 Feb 2019

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