By Adom Getachew After our discussion, I thought another way we might distinguish the academic and worldly philosopher was to think less about their different modes of engagement, but to consider when the university came to be a dominant space… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt Adom Getachew makes several key points in her intervention and essay. The first point concerns the distinctive writing and publishing practices of the worldly philosophers we are discussing at Revolution 2/13. For the most part and… Continue Reading
By Adom Getachew In our selected readings for this week, we have snapshots of the anticolonial movement in Ghana—what both James and Padmore call a revolution—from three different figures and at three different moments. We encounter Nkrumah just before he… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt At the height of the crisis in Ghana in 1965, Kwame Nkrumah published a book titled Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism. A few months later, in February 1966, Nkrumah would be deposed in a violent… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt The man at the helm is the African intellectual. He succeeds—or independent Africa sinks… As in Russia after the 1917 revolution, it is the intellectuals who will lead the continent. — C.L.R. James, Nkrumah and the… Continue Reading