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| Title: | The Rise of Anti-Intellectualism among the Modern African Elite |
| Author: | Mboukou, Alexandre |
| Year: | 1982 |
| Periodical: | Journal of African Studies (UCLA) |
| Volume: | 9 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Period: | Winter |
| Pages: | 180-186 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Africa |
| Subjects: | intellectuals elite Politics and Government Education and Oral Traditions |
| Abstract: | This paper discusses the manifestations of anti-intellectualism and its potentially detrimental impact upon the newly emerging nations of Africa. The paper has four major parts: 1) review of the literature on the issue of anti-intellectualism; 2) critical synthesis of the possible roots of anti-intellectualism in Africa; 3) examination of the peculiarities of anti-intellectualism within the ranks of the African professional and political elite in contemporary societies; 4) the dangers of anti-intellectualism. Operationally, anti-intellectualism is used in this paper as meaning 'a resentment and suspicion of the life of the mind and of those who are considered to represent it; and a disposition constantly to minimize the value of that life'. Notes. |