Sabatho, he is 'complex', here is my take on him and his ideas: "Kwame Anthony Appiah, both as a person and philosopher, has had a very uneasy relationship with his/our African identity. This is particularly evident when one juxtaposes Appiah's (1990) essay on 'Racisms' with Appiah's (1992) book In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture and Appiah's (1997) article on 'Cosmopolitan Patriot'. It is this uneasiness that informs his analyses of 'racism(s)'" - http://udadisi.blogspot.com/2013/03/between-local-and-global-racism.html
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"The African continent has produced some of the most prolific and dynamic scholars in the world, such as Ali A Mazrui, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Wole Soyinka, Toyin Falola, Kwame Anthony Appiah, and Prof. Paul Tiyambe Zeleza, among others".Does Kwame Anthony Apiah identify himself as an African? In his In my Father's House he chastises any attempt to create identities based on geography, biology, history etc. In short he wants a single identity: global citizenship. He he selectively quotes and deliberately mis- interprets the writings of great pan-African intellectuals including Nkrumah in order to rubbish the whole pan-African project, which he dubs "anti-racist racism".Sabatho
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--Call for Chapters for a book in honour of Paul Tiyambe ZelezaWorking title: Perspectives on Africa's Development Dynamics: African and Diasporic Reflections in Honour of Prof. Paul Tiyambe ZelezaEditors: Maurice N Amutabi (amutabi@gmail.com) and Cheryl N Grills (Cheryl.Grills@lmu.edu)The African continent has produced some of the most prolific and dynamic scholars in the world, such as Ali A Mazrui, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Wole Soyinka, Toyin Falola, Kwame Anthony Appiah, and Prof. Paul Tiyambe Zeleza, among others. The contributions of these scholars to the growth and development of scholarship in African cannot be gainsaid. Prof. Zeleza deserves to be mentioned alongside these intellectual giants because he is perhaps one of the most dynamic scholars to emerge from the African continent. Prof. Zeleza currently works as the Vice-President of Academic Affairs and Professor of History at Quinnipiac University, Hamden, Connecticut, USA. Besides his enormous contribution to African studies, Prof. Zeleza has also contributed immensely to the development of African American studies through research and publications. Through many of his great academic works, he has ignited great debates and discourses on African and African American studies in Africa and in Diaspora. He was pioneer of the famous intellectual debates at the Council for Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) debates that included famous scholars such as Samir Amin, Archie Mafeje, Mahmoud Mamdani, Thandika Mkandawire, Eric Masinde Aseka, Issa Shivji, among others. Many scholars in African and African American studies have had the chance to use some of the books written by Prof. Zeleza in their classes and seminars, such as A Modern Economic History of Africa, Vol.1: The Nineteenth Century which remains the most authoritative book on economic issues on Africa. It is Prof. Zeleza's flagship book, cited over 50,000 times in scholarly journals. Prof. Zeleza is also the author of Manufacturing African Studies and Crises; Rethinking Africa's Development and Smouldering Charcoal.Prof. Zeleza has worked and taught in many parts of the world, in Africa, South and North America and influenced research in different aspects of humanities and social sciences in the world. He has mentored hundreds of scholars many of whom are today prominent in their own right. His great influence on Africa and African American studies is invaluable. Prof. Zeleza embraced interdisciplinary research very early at a time when many traditional scholars were still ambivalent to such approach and still engaged in disciplinary cocooning. This outstanding and amiable personality made invaluable contributions towards the enrichment of scholarship by supervising several doctoral students who are now actively working in Africa and African American studies and other fields.Maurice N. Amutabi and Cheryl N Grills are proposing to publish an edited book in honour of Prof. Zeleza. The anthology is in recognition of Prof. Zeleza's outstanding contributions to African and African American studies. As editors, we are calling for chapters from scholars in various disciplines to submit well-researched scholarly works for inclusion in the book in honour of Prof. Zeleza. Send chapter abstracts of not more than 300 words to editors at amutabi@yahoo.com or amutabi@gmail.com or Cheryl.Grills@lmu.edu by September 30, 2015. The deadline for full chapter submission is October 30, 2015. Proposed chapters should be accompanied by a brief biography of author(s) of not more than 150 words along with institutional affiliation. All papers will be subjected to blind peer-reviews and comments will be sent to contributors for corrections by November 30, 2015. We intend to publish the book by December 30, 2015. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:The themes to be covered include:African literature and African languagesHuman rights, Ubuntu and NEPADEnvironment and DevelopmentIntellectual history and history of ideas in AfricaDiscourses on Africa and African DiasporaHigher education in AfricaGender issues, discourses and dynamicsEconomic, Social and Cultural historyMarginalization, Space and MinoritiesXenophobia, Migration and MovementBrain Drain, Brain Gain and AfricaGovernance and Democracy in AfricaAfro-centricity, Africa and African American DiscoursesReligious RadicalismGlobalization and TerrorismAny other relevant topicImportant dates· E-mail: amutabi@yahoo.com or amutabi@gmail.com or Cheryl.Grills@lmu.edu· Abstract: 250 words (in MS word)· Chapter proposal September 30, 2015· Bio-Data: 150 words· Peer Reviewed paper due: October 30, 2015· Submission dateline: November 30, 2015
--Prof. Maurice N. Amutabi, PhD
Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic and Student Affairs)
Kisii University,
P. O. Box 408 (40200),
Kisii, Kenya
E-mail: Amutabi@yahoo.com or dvcaa@kisiiuniversity.ac.ke
Tel: Tel: 254-058-30826
Cellphone(Mobile)254-(0)700-744545Prof. Maurice Amutabi is the author of 'The NGO Factor in Africa'(described as a 'leading publication' on NGOs in Africa)
1. The NGO Factor in Africa
http://www.amazon.com/NGO-Factor-Africa-Arrested-Development/dp/0415979951
2. Regime Change and Succession Politics in Africa
http://www.amazon.com/Regime-Change-Succession-Politics-Africa/dp/0415534089
3. Lifelong Learning in Africa
http://www.amazon.com/Studies-Lifelong-Learning-Africa-Technological/dp/0773447571
4. Studies in Economic History of Kenya
http://www.amazon.com/Studies-Economic-History-Kenya-Entrepreneurship/dp/0773439072/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1265479492&sr=8-1
5. Perspectives in African Environment and Technology
http://www.amazon.com/Perspectives-African-Environment-Toyin-Falola/dp/15922188496
6. Prof. Maurice Amutabi's Blog
http://kenyasocialscienceforum.wordpress.com/author/kenyasocialscienceforum/
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