Search results
Apr 1, 2007 · West, a scholar at Princeton University and author of the influential book Race Matters, places Mandela as an exemplar in the great democratic tradition, while Africa's great man of letters Wole Soyinka, the first person of African descent to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, offers his remarks on global culture in "Views from a Palette of ...
- Paperback
This lively, engaging and witty collection of lectures brings together the renowned African and African-American scholars - Cornel West, Henry Louis Gates Jr and Wole Soyinka - to reflect on the public meaning of the iconic Nelson Mandela. Any one of these authors would have been a pleasure to read in his own right, but to have all three of them enjoined in this common intellectual effort is ...
The Meaning of Mandela. : These engaging and witty lectures bring together the ideas of three renowned scholars--Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Wole Soyinka, and Cornel West--as they reflect on Nelson Mandela's image in the public imagination and his role as a symbol of African pride. Gates, a powerful academic presence in the United States and chair ...
- illustrated
- Xolela Mangcu
The Meaning of Mandela: A Literary and Intellectual Celebration; edited by Xolela Mangcu. Cape Town: Human Sciences Research Council, 2006, 64 pp. ISBN 0-7969-2164-4. - Volume 103
The meaning of Mandela : a literary and intellectual celebration ... a literary and intellectual celebration. ... Mandela, Nelson, 1918-2013, Presidents -- South Africa
Graced with a Foreword by former chairman of South Africa?s Truth and Reconciliation Commission and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, The Meaning of Mandela should be required reading in philosophy and politics departments, a feature in the boardroom and an essential part of your carry-on luggage.
Nelson Mandela Foundation's Archive. Item 0234 - Meaning of Mandela : A literary and intellectual celebration
