Denis Ekpo
Biographic Data
| ID | 5644352 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Denis Ekpo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Denis |
| FAMILY NAME | Ekpo |
| SIGNATURE | EKPO D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Port Harcourt |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The De-Africanization of African Art
Speak Negritude But Think and Act French
Though Negritude is considered a sufficient description of what Senghor did and stood for, evidence abounds that both in his more performative thought and his political practices he had effectively sublated Negritude. Negritude was called upon to do vital preparatory work. The dynamics of Senghor's Realpolitical thought and practice were tied up with the colonial/modernity question at the frontier of decolonisation. While his stance on decolonisa…
From Negritude to Post‐Africanism
Today Africa and the world have forgotten Negritude. The fault lies partly with Negritude, partly with those quick to pigeonhole the whole of Léopold Sédar Senghor’s philosophy as mere Negritude. To preserve the living sparks of Senghor’s thought apart from ideologically defunct Negritude, it is necessary to distinguish two doctrines, namely, official Negritude or cultural nationalism, and Senghorism, here defined as a discourse of Africa’s full …
Festac 77 et projet de modernité africaine
Any European around to help me talk about myself? The white man’s burden of black Africa’s critical practices
Sometime in March 1984, during a symposium on the teaching of African literature held at the University of Bordeaux,1 Professor Michel Hausser, a Frenchman and professor of African literature there
The Aporia of post‐colonial anger
The theme of discontent has been so pervasively and intrinsically bound up with Africa's post‐colonial writing that it is not totally out of place to provisionally define typical African writers today as people whose intense anger at the state of affairs in their country has made them creative. A random bibliography recently compiled by Research in African Literature1 shows that discontent with post‐colonial disorder and most especially the criti…
How Africa misunderstood the west the failure of anti‐west radicalism and postmodernity
How Africa misunderstood the west the failure of anti‐west radicalism and postmodernity
From Negritude to Post‐Africanism
Today Africa and the world have forgotten Negritude. The fault lies partly with Negritude, partly with those quick to pigeonhole the whole of Léopold Sédar Senghor’s philosophy as mere Negritude. To preserve the living sparks of Senghor’s thought apart from ideologically defunct Negritude, it is necessary to distinguish two doctrines, namely, official Negritude or cultural nationalism, and Senghorism, here defined as a discourse of Africa’s full …
Festac 77 et projet de modernité africaine
The De-Africanization of African Art
How Africa misunderstood the west the failure of anti‐west radicalism and postmodernity
The Aporia of post‐colonial anger
The theme of discontent has been so pervasively and intrinsically bound up with Africa's post‐colonial writing that it is not totally out of place to provisionally define typical African writers today as people whose intense anger at the state of affairs in their country has made them creative. A random bibliography recently compiled by Research in African Literature1 shows that discontent with post‐colonial disorder and most especially the criti…
Any European around to help me talk about myself? The white man’s burden of black Africa’s critical practices
Sometime in March 1984, during a symposium on the teaching of African literature held at the University of Bordeaux,1 Professor Michel Hausser, a Frenchman and professor of African literature there
Festac 77 et projet de modernité africaine
Speak Negritude But Think and Act French
Though Negritude is considered a sufficient description of what Senghor did and stood for, evidence abounds that both in his more performative thought and his political practices he had effectively sublated Negritude. Negritude was called upon to do vital preparatory work. The dynamics of Senghor's Realpolitical thought and practice were tied up with the colonial/modernity question at the frontier of decolonisation. While his stance on decolonisa…
From Negritude to Post‐Africanism
Today Africa and the world have forgotten Negritude. The fault lies partly with Negritude, partly with those quick to pigeonhole the whole of Léopold Sédar Senghor’s philosophy as mere Negritude. To preserve the living sparks of Senghor’s thought apart from ideologically defunct Negritude, it is necessary to distinguish two doctrines, namely, official Negritude or cultural nationalism, and Senghorism, here defined as a discourse of Africa’s full …
The De-Africanization of African Art
Political science (6 works) · African history and culture studies (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works)