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African Culture and Global Politics This volume attempts to insert itself within the larger discussion of Africa in the twenty-fi rst century, especially within the realm of world politics. Despite the underwhelming amount of attention given to Africa’s role in international politics in popular news sources, it is evident that Africa has a consistent record of participating in world politics—one that pre-dates colonization and continues today. In continuance of this legacy of active participation in global political exchanges, Africans today can be heard in dialogues that span the world and their roles are impossible to replace by other entities. It is evident that a vastly diff erent Africa exists than ones that bolster images of starvation, corruption, and compliance. The essays in this volume center on Africa and Africans participating in international political discourses, but with an emphasis on various forms of expression and philosophies, as these factors heavily infl uence Africa’s role as a participant in global politics. The reader will fi nd a variety of essays that permeate surface discussions of politics and political activism by inserting African culture, rhetoric, philosophies into the larger discus- sion of international politics and Africa’s role in worldwide political, social, and economic debates. Toyin Falola is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair Professor in the Humanities and a Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. He is a Fellow of the Historical Society of Nigeria and a Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Letters. Danielle Porter Sanchez is a doctoral candidate in the Department of His- tory at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. Routledge African Studies 1 Facts, Fiction, and African 9 Regime Change and Succession Creative Imaginations Politics in Africa Edited by Toyin Falola Five Decades of Misrule and Fallou Ngom Edited by Maurice Nyamanga Amutabi and Shadrack Wanjala 2 The Darfur Confl ict Nasong’o Geography or Institutions? Osman Suliman 10 The Political Economy of Development and 3 Music, Performance and African Underdevelopment in Africa Identities Edited by Toyin Falola Edited by Toyin Falola and Jessica Achberger and Tyler Fleming 11 Pan-Africanism, and the Politics 4 Environment and Economics in of African Citizenship and Nigeria Identity Edited by Toyin Falola Edited by Toyin Falola and Adam Paddock and Kwame Essien 5 Close to the Sources 12 Securing Africa Essays on Contemporary African Local Crises and Foreign Culture, Politics and Academy Interventions Abebe Zegeye and Maurice Vambe Edited by Toyin Falola and Charles Thomas 6 Landscape and Environment in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa 13 African Youth in Edited by Toyin Falola Contemporary Literature and Emily Brownell and Popular Culture Identity Quest 7 Development, Modernism and Edited by Vivian Yenika-Agbaw Modernity in Africa and Lindah Mhando Edited by Augustine Agwuele 14 Indigenous Discourses on 8 Natural Resources, Confl ict, and Knowledge and Development Sustainable Development in Africa Lessons from the Niger Delta Edited by Edward Shizha Edited by Okechukwu Ukaga, and Ali A. Abdi Ukoha O. Ukiwo and Ibaba Samuel Ibaba 15 African Culture and Global Politics Language, Philosophies, and Expressive Culture in Africa and the Diaspora Edited by Toyin Falola and Danielle Porter Sanchez This page intentionally left blank African Culture and Global Politics Language, Philosophies, and Expressive Culture in Africa and the Diaspora Edited by Toyin Falola and Danielle Porter Sanchez Routledge Taylor & Francis Group NNEEWW YYOORRKK LLOONNDDOONN First published 2014 by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 and by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2014 Taylor & Francis The right of Toyin Falola and Danielle Porter Sanchez to be identified as the authors of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark Notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Africa Conference (Tex.) (2011 : University of Texas at Austin) African culture and global politics : language, philosophies, and expressive culture in Africa and the diaspora / edited by Toyin Falola and Danielle Porter Sanchez. pages cm — (Routledge African studies ; 15) “This volume is the product of the 2011 Africa Conference at the University of Texas, the theme of which was Africa and World Politics” —Introduction. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Africa—Civilization—Political aspects—Congresses. 2. Africa —International relations—Congresses. 3. Globalization —Africa—Congresses. 4. Authors, African—Criticism and interpretation—Congresses. I. Falola, Toyin, editor of compilation. II. Sanchez, Danielle Porter, 1986– editor of compilation, author. III. Title. IV. Series: Routledge African studies ; 15. DT1.5. A413 2011 306.096—dc23 2013033756 ISBN13: 978-0-415-71302-3 (hbk) ISBN13: 978-1-315-88353-3 (ebk) Typeset in Sabon by IBT Global. For Professor Emmanuel Mbah for his contributions to African Studies. —Toyin Falola For CCS and JDS. —Danielle Porter Sanchez This page intentionally left blank Contents List of Figures xiii List of Tables xv Introduction: The Intersection of Africanity and World Politics—Considering African and Diasporic Expressive Cultures in Global Politics 1 TOYIN FALOLA AND DANIELLE PORTER SANCHEZ PART I African Philosophies and Philosophies for Africa 1 Ideologies of Development in French Algeria: Saint-Simonians, Manifest Destiny, and Globalization 17 EMMA DEPUTY 2 Islam and the Politics of Assimilation in French Colonial Algeria 37 DINO PALAJ 3 Theorizing Confl ict and Confl ict Resolution in an African Philosophical Discourse 56 OLADELE ABIODUN BALOGUN 4 The Emergent Church in Africa and the Phenomenon of Reverse Missions 71 KELVIN ONONGHA 5 Africa’s Unheralded Contributions to World Politics 85 KUNIRUM OSIA
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