The author juxtaposes the intelleetual discourse and concepts of the 60s and 70s with the intellectual climate of the current period. The African thinkers and theoreticians of the „Golden Age“ of liberation and revolution are described as intellectual activists and political thinkers. As an expression of this era, their intellectual thought provided the theoretical foundation and ideological inspiration for anti-colonial struggle and anti-capitalist movements worldwide. The University of Dar es Salaam is given special attention as African hotbed of this intellectual ferment. The changes in intellectual culture are discussed together with the global transformation, symbolically characterized by the period of the Vietnam War (1965-1975) and the Gulf War (1991-2001). The author suggests, that also in the latter period intellectual discourse played and continues to play a vanguard role this time rather legitimising the forces of neo-liberal globalisation.
