The Crisis of Post-Colonial Intellectual Thought and Knowledge Production: Examining Jared Angira’s African Revolutionary Egalitarianism

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dc.contributor.authorWachira, Joyce Wanjiku
dc.contributor.authorGoro, Nicholas Kamau
dc.contributor.authorMutie, Stephen Muthoka
dc.date.accessioned2022-03-17T11:01:16Z
dc.date.available2022-03-17T11:01:16Z
dc.date.issued2021-03-29
dc.descriptionA Research article in the Hybrid Journal of Literary and Cultural Studiesen_US
dc.description.abstractThis paper critiques Jared Angira’s poetry, and the ideology it manifests with a view to interrogating the “Marxist” label scholars attach to him. Although justifications abound for the prevailing perspectives on Angira’s ideology as “Marxist”, they are limited in their subconscious reinforcement of the traditional white-supremacist image-branding of Africa in terms of deficiency and inferiority. In further contributing to the decolonisation of knowledge generation and consumption in the Global South, the paper interprets these views as theoretically misleading and ideologically incorrect. It adopts the contrary position that Angira is an African Revolutionary Egalitarian, thus paving way for the appreciation of his uniquely African contribution to endogenous knowledge production and the intellectual armoury of African political ideas. Though African Revolutionary Egalitarianism, a term we coin to try and apprehend the ideology we read in Angira’s poetry, has Marxist inclinations, in contexture, it is not Marxism. Angira’s poems are the primary data. Besides critical evaluations on the primary texts, knowledge situated around the general context of contemporary African ideological paradigms and knowledge systems constitutes secondary data. Knowledge on the broad range of historical factors, experiences and contours which shape Angira’s worldview, personality and writing also constitute an essential category of secondary data.en_US
dc.identifier.citationWachira, J. W., Goro, N. K., & Mutie, S. M. (2021). The crisis of post-colonial intellectual thought and knowledge production: Examining Jared Angira’s African revolutionary egalitarianism. Hybrid Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies, 3(1). Retrieved from https://royalliteglobal.com/hybrid-literary/article/view/526en_US
dc.identifier.issn2707-2150
dc.identifier.issn2707-2169
dc.identifier.urihttp://ir-library.ku.ac.ke/handle/123456789/23219
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherRoyallite Globalen_US
dc.subjectAfrican revolutionary egalitarianismen_US
dc.subjectGlobal southen_US
dc.subjectMarxism,en_US
dc.subjectEndogenous knowledgeen_US
dc.subjectAuthorial ideologyen_US
dc.titleThe Crisis of Post-Colonial Intellectual Thought and Knowledge Production: Examining Jared Angira’s African Revolutionary Egalitarianismen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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