Africa, India and the Postcolonial: notes towards a Praxis of infliction.

From: Arena Journal | Date: January 1, 2003| Author: Adesanmi, Pius | Copyright information 
 
   Beyond the occasional glancing references and the 
   deployment of intellectual authority, the absence of an 
   authentic and well sustained African input into the 
   paradigm of contemporary postcolonialism is one of the 
   most intriguing intellectual developments of our time. 
 
   Adebayo Williams 
 
   This is one of the many reasons Africa has been absent in 
   the dominant varieties of poststructural theory, especially 
   postcolonial theory. We should not, of course, at...

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