African Cultural Production and the Rhetoric of Humanism - Paperback

African Cultural Production and the Rhetoric of Humanism - Paperback

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African Cultural Production and the Rhetoric of Humanism - Paperback
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African Cultural Production and the Rhetoric of Humanism - Paperback

African Cultural Production and the Rhetoric of Humanism - Paperback

$82.56
$82.56

by Koni Benson (Contribution by), Mohamed Kamara (Contribution by), Thomas Spree MacDonald (Contribution by)

A broad range of cultural works produced in traditional and modern African communities shows a fundamental preoccupation with the concepts of communal solidarity and hospitality in societies driven by humanistic ideals. African Cultural Production and the Rhetoric of Humanism is an inaugural attempt to focus exclusively and extensively on the question of humanism in African art and culture.


This collection brings together scholars from different disciplines who deftly examine the deployment of various forms of artistic production such as oral and written literatures, paintings, and cartoons to articulate an Afrocentric humanist discourse. The contributors argue that the artists, in their representation of civil wars, massive corruption, poverty, abuse of human rights, and other dehumanizing features of post-independence Africa, call for a return to the traditional African vision of humanism that is relentlessly being eroded by the realities of postcolonial nationhood.

Author Biography

Lifongo Vetindeis professor of French and francophone studies at Lawrence University.

Jean-Blaise Samou is assistant professor of francophone and intercultural studies at Saint Mary's University.
Number of Pages: 194
Dimensions: 0.41 x 9 x 6 IN
Publication Date: April 05, 2023

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