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Summary:

This volume interrogates and theorises various forms of fundamentalism and fetishism that impinge on Africa and the African people. The book valiantly rethinks and unpacks these forms of fundamentalisms and fetishisms, offering in the process critical vistas for students, scholars and activists on matters of decoloniality and transformation. By meticulously and painstakingly unpacking pertinent issues, the book provides unparalleled intellectual milestones and platforms for the oncoming revolution and quest for justice in the form of decoloniality and transformation. Drawing from several disciplinary domains such as Development Studies, Security Studies, Political Anthropology and Sociology, Economic Anthropology and Social studies, English Studies, History, Philosophy and Religious Studies, and drawing from scholars from across different universities in the Southern African region, the book provides multiple lenses from which to understand the complex goings on in a continent that can no longer afford to simply fold hands and watch while its citizens suffer multiple forms of coloniality, fetishisms and fundamentalisms.

Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: ch. One Theorising Fundamentalisms and Fetishisms in the 21st Century / Munyaradzi Mawere
• ch. Two "Humanitarian" Fundamentalism: Interrogating "Global" Processes of Fishing in African Troubled Waters / Artwell Nhemachena
• ch. Three On the Coloniality of Research in Africa: The Case of HIV/AIDS in South Africa / Nokuthula Hlabangane
• ch. Four Poverty and Fundamentalism in Africa / Oliver Mtapuri
• ch. Five Questioning the Cult of the State: Evangelicals on the Zimbabwean National Pledge 2014-2016 / Munetsi Ruzivo
• ch. Six Foot Soldiers of the New Empire or Horizontal Saviours? Interrogating Civil Society Organisations and Fundamentalisms in Twenty-First Century Africa / Bankie F. Bankie
• ch. Seven Dismantling Fundamentalisms in Science: Trailing Feyerabend's Epistemological Anarchism and the Place of African Science / Tobias Dindi Ong'aria
• ch. Eight Fetishisation of Knowledge: A Case of Patriotic History in Zimbabwe / Tafirenyika Madziyauswa
• ch. Nine History, Culture, Religion and [Under-] development in Africa / Nkwazi Nkuzi Mhango
• ch. Ten Interfacing the Past and the Present: Traditional Leaders, Politics and Materialism in Zimbabwe since the Pre-colonial Period / Fidelis P. T. Dud.

Contributors:

Mawere, Munyaradzi , editor

Nhemachena, Artwell , editor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Subjects:

Religious fundamentalism — Africa

Fetishism — Africa

Decolonization — Africa

Africa — Religion — 21st century

Africa — Social conditions — 21st century

Africa — Economic conditions — 21st century

Africa — History — 21st century

General Notes:

Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
Includes bibliographical references.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 12, 2017).

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

BL238 .A47 2017eb

ISBNs:

9789956762576 (electronic book)
9956762571 (electronic book)
9789956764082 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

988866073

Other Control Numbers:

EBC4865479 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp14524252