Can a Liberal be a Chief? Can a Chief be a Liberal?: Some Thoughts on an Unfinished Business of Colonialism (Paradigm, 61)

Táíwò, Olúfémi

ISBN 10: 1734643528 / ISBN 13: 9781734643527

Edité par Prickly Paradigm Press (edition ), 2021

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• Titre: Can a Liberal be a Chief? Can a Chief be a Liberal?: Some Thoughts on an Unfinished Business of Colonialism (Paradigm, 61)
• Éditeur: Prickly Paradigm Press (edition )
• Date de parution: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1734643528
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781734643527
• Reliure: Paperback
• État de l'article: Very Good

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Synopsis

An argument against the idea of the indigenous chief as a liberal political figure.

Across Africa, it is not unusual for proponents of liberal democracy and modernization to make room for some aspects of indigenous culture, such as the use of a chief as a political figure. Yet for Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, no such accommodation should be made. Chiefs, he argues, in this thought-provoking and wide-ranging pamphlet, cannot be liberals--and liberals cannot be chiefs. If we fail to recognize this, we fail to acknowledge the metaphysical underpinnings of modern understandings of freedom and equality, as well as the ways in which African intellectuals can offer a distinctive take on the unfinished business of colonialism.

À propos de l?auteur

Olúfémi Táíwò is professor of Africana studies at Cornell University.