50 years of independence: reflections on the role of publishing and progressive African intellectuals

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Title:	50 years of independence: reflections on the role of publishing and progressive African intellectuals
Author:	Bgoya, Walter
Year:	2014
Periodical:	Africa Spectrum (ISSN 0002-0397)
Volume:	49
Issue:	3
Pages:	107-119
Language:	English
Geographic terms:	Africa Tanzania
Subjects:	intellectuals publishing
External link:	https://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/giga/afsp/article/view/784
Abstract:	In this contribution, the role of progressive African intellectuals fifty years after independence in the context of African postcolonial, political and socio-economic conditions is examined. African intellectuals have been marginalized by the African state, and progressive intellectuals have been disunited in their struggle for relevance. The possibilities for African intellectual autonomy and international solidarity are shown through a recollection of the flourishing intellectual environment and local publishing output of post-independence Tanzania. The end of that era and the demise of publishing, including in African languages, has negatively impacted African economic and intellectual emancipation and can only be addressed by international solidarity among progressive intellectuals. Notes, ref., sum. in English and German. [Journal abstract]