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Afrotopia
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Author : Felwine Sarr
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 2020-03-17
Afrotopia written by Felwine Sarr and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-17 with Philosophy categories.
A vibrant meditation and poetic call for an African utopian philosophy of self-reinvention for the twenty-first century In the recent aftermath of colonialism, civil wars, and the AIDS crisis, a new day finally seems to be shining on the African continent. Africa has once again become a site of creative potential and a vibrant center of economic growth and production. No longer stigmatized by stereotypes or encumbered by the traumas of the past—yet unsure of the future—Africa has other options than simply to follow paths already carved out by the global economy. Instead, the philosopher Felwine Sarr urges the continent to set out on its own renewal and self-discovery—an active utopia that requires a deep historical reflection on the continent’s vast mythological universe and ancient traditions, nourishes a cultural reinvention, and embraces green technologies for tackling climate change and demographic challenges. Through a reflection on contemporary African writers, artists, intellectuals, and musicians, Sarr elaborates Africa’s unique philosophies and notions of communal value and economy deeply rooted in its ancient traditions and landscape—concepts such as ubuntu, the life force in Dogon culture; the Rwandan imihigo; and the Senegalese teranga. Sarr takes the reader on a philosophical journey that is as much inward as outward, demanding an elevation of the collective consciousness. Along the way, one sees the contours of an africanity, a contemporary Africa united as a continent through the creolization of its cultural traditions. This is Felwine Sarr’s Afrotopia.
Afrotopia
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Author : Wilson Jeremiah Moses
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1998-09-13
Afrotopia written by Wilson Jeremiah Moses and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-09-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
A study of Afrocentrism since the eighteenth-century, with particular attention to popular mythologies.
Afrotopia
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Author : Marie-Ann Yemsi
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-01-17
Afrotopia written by Marie-Ann Yemsi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-17 with categories.
Decolonizing Heritage
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Author : Ferdinand De Jong
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2022-03-17
Decolonizing Heritage written by Ferdinand De Jong and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-17 with History categories.
An exploration of how Senegal has decolonised its cultural heritage sites since independence, many of which are remnants of the French empire.
African Meditations
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Author : Felwine Sarr
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 2023-01-24
African Meditations written by Felwine Sarr and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-24 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
An influential thinker’s fascinating reflections and meditations on reacclimating to his native Senegal as a young academic after years of study abroad The call to morning prayer. A group run at daybreak along the Corniche in Dakar. A young woman shedding tears on a beach as her friends take a boat to Europe. In African Meditations, paths to enlightenment collide with tales of loss and ruminations, musical gatherings, and the everyday sights and sounds of life in West Africa as a young philosopher and creative writer seeks to establish himself as a teacher upon his return to Senegal, his homeland, after years of study abroad. A unique contemporary portrait of an influential, multicultural thinker on a spiritual quest across continents—reflecting on his multiple literary influences along with French, African Francophone, and Senegalese tribal cultural roots in a homeland with a predominantly Muslim culture—African Meditations is a seamless blend of autobiography, journal entries, and fiction; aphorisms and brief narrative sketches; humor and Zen reflections. Taking us from Saint-Louis to Dakar, Felwine Sarr encounters the rhythms of everyday life as well as its disruptions such as teachers’ strikes and power outages while traversing a semi-surrealistic landscape. As he reacclimates to his native country after a life in France, we get candid glimpses, both vibrant and hopeful, sublime and mundane, into his Zen journey to resecure a foothold in his roots and to navigate academia, even while gleaning something of the good life, of joy, amid the struggles of life in Senegal.
Afrotop A
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Author : Felwine Sarr
language : es
Publisher: LOS LIBROS DE LA CATARATA
Release Date : 2018-11-27
Afrotop A written by Felwine Sarr and has been published by LOS LIBROS DE LA CATARATA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-27 with History categories.
Considerado como uno de los grandes intelectuales que mueven África, Felwine Sarr revela a través de su ensayo Afrotopía un nuevo proyecto para el continente. Según Sarr, África no tiene que alcanzar a nadie, no tiene que imitar a nadie. Necesita lograr su descolonización a través de un encuentro fecundo consigo misma. Debe abstenerse de ese infantilismo con el que las naciones se miden para ver quién ha acumulado más riquezas, aparatos tecnológicos, sensaciones fuertes, sin plantearse que esta irresponsable carrera pone en peligro las condiciones sociales y naturales de la vida humana. En treinta y cinco años, la población africana representará un cuarto de la humanidad. Un peso demográfico y una vitalidad que inclinarán los equilibrios sociales, políticos, económicos y culturales del planeta. Afrotopía no es un dulce sueño. Es una utopía activa que pretende sacar a la luz los vastos espacios posibles de las realidades africanas y fecundarlos; es conducir a la humanidad a un nivel superior.
Lose Your Mother
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Author : Saidiya Hartman
language : en
Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Release Date : 2021-07-22
Lose Your Mother written by Saidiya Hartman and has been published by Serpent's Tail this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-22 with Social Science categories.
The slave, Saidiya Hartman observes, is a stranger torn from family, home, and country. To lose your mother is to be severed from your kin, to forget your past, and to inhabit the world as an outsider. In Lose Your Mother, Hartman traces the history of the Atlantic slave trade by recounting a journey she took along a slave route in Ghana. There are no known survivors of Hartman's lineage, no relatives to find. She is a stranger in search of strangers, and this fact leads her into intimate engagements with the people she encounters along the way, and with figures from the past, vividly dramatising the effects of slavery on three centuries of African and American history.
The Form Of Ideology And The Ideology Of Form
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Author : Francesca Orsini
language : en
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Release Date : 2022-02-23
The Form Of Ideology And The Ideology Of Form written by Francesca Orsini and has been published by Open Book Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-23 with Art categories.
This timely volume focuses on the period of decolonization and the Cold War as the backdrop to the emergence of new and diverse literary aesthetics that accompanied anti-imperialist commitments and Afro-Asian solidarity. Competing internationalist frameworks produced a flurry of writings that made Asian, African and other world literatures visible to each other for the first time. The book’s essays examine a host of print culture formats (magazines, newspapers, manifestos, conference proceedings, ephemera, etc.) and modes of cultural mediation and transnational exchange that enabled the construction of a variously inflected Third-World culture which played a determining role throughout the Cold War. The essays in this collection focus on locations as diverse as Morocco, Tunisia, South Asia, China, Spain, and Italy, and on texts in Arabic, English, French, Hindi, Italian, and Spanish. In doing so, they highlight the combination of local debates and struggles, and internationalist networks and aspirations that found expression in essays, novels, travelogues, translations, reviews, reportages and other literary forms. With its comparative study of print cultures with a focus on decolonization and the Cold War, the volume makes a major contribution both to studies of postcolonial literary and print cultures, and to cultural Cold War studies in multilingual and non-Western contexts, and will be of interest to historians and literary scholars alike.
Out Of The Dark Night
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Author : Achille Mbembe
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2021-01-19
Out Of The Dark Night written by Achille Mbembe and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-19 with Political Science categories.
Achille Mbembe is one of the world’s most profound critics of colonialism and its consequences, a major figure in the emergence of a new wave of French critical theory. His writings examine the complexities of decolonization for African subjectivities and the possibilities emerging in its wake. In Out of the Dark Night, he offers a rich analysis of the paradoxes of the postcolonial moment that points toward new liberatory models of community, humanity, and planetarity. In a nuanced consideration of the African experience, Mbembe makes sweeping interventions into debates about citizenship, identity, democracy, and modernity. He eruditely ranges across European and African thought to provide a powerful assessment of common ways of writing and thinking about the world. Mbembe criticizes the blinders of European intellectuals, analyzing France’s failure to heed postcolonial critiques of ongoing exclusions masked by pretenses of universalism. He develops a new reading of African modernity that further develops the notion of Afropolitanism, a novel way of being in the world that has arisen in decolonized Africa in the midst of both destruction and the birth of new societies. Out of the Dark Night reconstructs critical theory’s historical and philosophical framework for understanding colonial and postcolonial events and expands our sense of the futures made possible by decolonization.
Power Culture And Modernity In Nigeria
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Author : Oluwatoyin Oduntan
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-05-23
Power Culture And Modernity In Nigeria written by Oluwatoyin Oduntan and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-23 with History categories.
In this book, Oluwatoyin Oduntan offers a critical intervention in the scholarly fields of Nigerian, and West African history, as well as towards understanding the intellectual ideas by which modern African society was formed, and how it functions. The book traces the shifting dynamics between various segments of the African elite by critically analyzing existing historical accounts, traditions and archival documents. First, it explores the lost world of native intellectual thoughts as the perspective through which Africans experienced the colonial encounter. It thereby makes Africans central to contemporary debates about the meanings and legitimacy of colonial empires, and about the African cultural experience. It shows that the resettlement of liberated and Westernized Africans in Abeokuta and after them, European missionaries, merchants and colonial agents from the 1840s, did not dismantle preexisting power structures and social relations. Rather, educated Africans and Europeans entered into and added their voices to ongoing processes of defining culture and power. By rendering a continuing narrative of change and adaptation which connects the pre-colonial to the post-colonial, Power, Culture and Modernity in Nigeria leads Africanist scholarship in new directions to rethink colonial impact and uncover the total creative sites of changes by which African societies were formed.