http://hdl.handle.net/10500/5146 Wed, 22 May 2013 19:49:48 GMT 2013-05-22T19:49:48Z http://hdl.handle.net/10500/5148 An African Cultural Renaissance Perspective on Constitutionalism, Democracy, Peace, Justice and Shared Values: Challenges & Stakes for Statehood and Nation-building Mboup, Samba Buri Beyond folklore, dance, music, culture refers, in a more substantive and comprehensive way, to the sum of ideas, knowledge systems and instrumentalities (institutional, scientific, technological and political) by means of which a people conceives and organises their relationship to space and time, in the process of production and reproduction of their existence and social life: economic activity as a whole, architecture, indigenous educational and health systems, principles and patterns of institutional and political organization, etc. For a given people, culture encompasses among others: the best practices and examples set by immortal figures and lessons learned during the richest hours of their history; their generic worldview, basic principles of life and value systems; their language (s) and spirituality; their vision of Self and Other including generic mental images and archetypes etc. Sat, 08 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10500/5148 2011-01-08T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10500/5147 Challenges and stakes in the africanisation process of research, scholarship and university curricula, in the context of Globalisation & in the perspective of African Renaissance Mboup, Samba Buri African Renaissance can be viewed as an alternative and global project of society and civilization, aiming at the creation of the objective conditions for the re-birth of Africa as a scientific, technological as well as economic and political pole of initiative and decision making on its own, in the world of to-day and to-morrow. Thu, 10 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10500/5147 2008-01-10T00:00:00Z