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In Search Of Africa S
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Author : Souleymane Bachir Diagne
language : en
Publisher: Polity
Release Date : 2020-05-11
In Search Of Africa S written by Souleymane Bachir Diagne and has been published by Polity this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-11 with Literary Criticism categories.
This important book by two leading scholars of Africa examines a series of issues that are central to the question of the postcolonial. The postcolonial paradigm, and the more recent decolonial paradigm, raise the issue of the universal: is the postcolonial the first phase of a new universalism, one which would be truly universal because it would be fully inclusive, or is it on the contrary the denial of all universalism, the triumph of the particular and of fragmentation? In addressing this issue Diagne and Amselle also tackle many related themes, such as the concepts of race, culture and identity, the role of languages in philosophy as practised in different cultural areas, the various conceptions of Islam, especially in West Africa, and the outlines of an Africa which can be thought of at the same time as singular and as plural. Each thinker looks back at his writings on these themes, comparing and contrasting them with those of his interlocutor. While Amselle seeks to expose the essentialist and culturalist logics that might underlie postcolonial and decolonial thought, Diagne consistently refuses to adopt the trappings of the Afrocentrist and particularist thinker. He argues instead for a total decentring of all thought, one that rejects all ‘centrisms’ and highlights instead branchings and connections, transfers, analogies and reciprocal influences between cultural places and intellectual fields that may be distant but are not distinct in space and time. This volume is a timely contribution to current debates on the postcolonial question and its new decolonial form. It will be of great interest to students and scholars in a variety of fields, from African studies and Black studies to philosophy, anthropology, sociology and cultural studies, as well as to anyone interested in the debates around postcolonial studies and decolonial thought
18th June 3 Pm Sast Gmt 2 In Search Of Africa S
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These talks will draw on political and aesthetic archives of emancipatory projects of the global south. [...] They will examine radical traditions and ideas of expansive citizenship that have emerged in the colonial and postcolonial modern. [...] Particular focus will be on idioms of difference, which define insider and outsider, majority and minority, how these emerged, were negotiated and transcended. [...] Register by June 14th to: [email protected] 18th June 3 PM SAST (GMT+2) Ethiopia @ 16:00 EAT (UTC+3) Ghana @ 13:00 GMT (UTC+0) Uganda @ 16:00 EAT (UTC+3) Lebanon @ 16:00 EEST (UTC+3) Barbados @ 09:00 AST (UTC- 4) US East Coast @ 09:00 EDT (UTC-4) In Search of Africa(s): Postcolonialism and the Universal Souleymane Bachir Diagne: Diagne is a philosopher based at Columbia University. [...] His talk will reflect on a new co- authored dialogue between himself and the Africanist anthropologist Jean-Loup Amselle, In Search of Africa(s): Universalism and Decolonial Thought (2020).
In Search Of African Diasporas
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Author : Paul Tiyambe Zeleza
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
In Search Of African Diasporas written by Paul Tiyambe Zeleza and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Africa categories.
This is an ambitious and brilliant book by one of Africa''s leading diaspora intellectuals. A combination of a researcher''s field notes, a travelogue and personal memoir, it is unusual in African writing. It is the first book by an African scholar to take us on such an amazing analytical and narrative journey in search of African diasporas around the world from Latin America to the Caribbean, Europe and Asia. It is filled with analytical insights, captivating stories, and intriguing observations on the complex histories and experiences of African diasporas, their triumphs and tragedies, perils and possibilities, and their enduring struggles for belonging, for their humanity. Its inimitable passions are leavened by engaging humor, its scholarly analyses by a novelist''s eye for local context and color. The author seeks to address the perplexing question of what it means to be a person of African descent living outside of the African continent. He offers the reader fascinating and richly textured portraits and surveys of the diversity of diasporic lives as well as the abiding connections of the diaspora condition. What makes this book particularly gripping are the multilayered narratives, the braided stories and explorations of African diasporic lives across many contexts and places as well as the author''s own life during the period of his travels from 2006 to 2009. Also skillfully interwoven are the author''s daily encounters and observations, information and reflections from interviewees from all walks of life, and the larger structural contexts of diaspora struggles for enfranchisement and empowerment. For all the gruesome exclusions, vulnerabilities, and marginalities African diasporas have suffered in their various abodes, this is a remarkable tale of diasporic agency, a celebration of their lasting contributions to the construction of the modern world in all its manifestations. This book is part of the African World Series, edited by Toyin Falola, Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities, University of Texas at Austin. "Paul Tiyambe Zeleza has been thinking about and living with pan-Africanism and Diaspora before its second wave of popularity and has done the experiential and intellectual work. In Search of African Diasporas: Testimonies and Encounters takes us with him as he documents the existence of our various journeys and arrivals, and the ways we re-create and redefine an African world wherever we are. As we read this book, we are able to travel with Zeleza from Venezuela to Oman, across the Caribbean and throughout Europe, getting the flavors and colors of the African Diaspora in myriad locations." -- Carole Boyce Davies, Professor of English and Africana Studies, Cornell University, General Editor, Encyclopedia of the African Diaspora "For over a century, we have been flooded with Black American narratives of returning to Africa. Paul Tiyambe Zeleza, a distinguished African scholar, reverses the poles and seeks to discover the global diaspora--the descendants of slaves, migrant laborers, refugees, fortune seekers. Part memoir, part travelogue, part history, part critical interrogation, Zeleza has given us a brilliant compendium of richly detailed and astute insights into how contemporary black intellectuals and activists understand racism and blackness, and how the black world sees itself, its relationship to Africa, and the future. From Latin America to the Arab world, Europe to the sub-continent, Zeleza''s fascinating journey takes place against a backdrop of globalization, growing divisions between rich and poor, ever greater displacement, heightened nationalism, and a genuine debate over the effectiveness of global black unity. Yet, as with Richard Wrights traveling observations a half-century earlier, Zeleza never avoids the hard questions or the difficult truths. A stunning achievement." -- Robin D. G. Kelley, Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California "In Search of African Diasporas offers a landmark contribution to the growing scholarly inquest into the African Diaspora. Based on years of travel, discussion and reading, Paul Tiyambe Zeleza presents a veritable tour-de-force, generating an utterly unique account that fuses his travelogue of a modern Diasporic odyssey with a penetrating analysis that both interprets the Diaspora''s larger meaning, while also inhabiting its migratory flows. Highly readable, perceptively written, geographically broad, and refreshingly critical, Zeleza''s 21st century rendition of the timeless''travel diary'' is sure to set the bar for those who are attempting to grapple with questions of identity, culture, and society in a fast-paced world of global change. Yet, anchored in history, this book is as much an artifact of the African Diaspora, as it is a current reflection on this persistently enduring modern phenomenon." -- Ben Vinson III, Herbert Baxter Adams Professor of Latin American History, Johns Hopkins University, Author of Flight: A Tuskegee Airman in Mexico, and African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean "A groundbreaking and powerful look at the African Diaspora in the world. Paul Tiyambe Zeleza''s existentialist commentary on multiple African Diasporas reminds the reader of Richard Wright''s Black Power in reverse: sincere, intimate and controversial. The novelistic descriptions of people and places also recalls some of the best travel narratives of Ryszard Kapuściński." -- Manthia Diawara, Professor of Comparative Literature and Africana Studies, New York University, author of African Film: New Forms of Aesthetics and Politics "Africa''s memory and relationship with its diaspora is a troubled one, a mixture of ignorance, stereotype, sentimentality, alienation, admiration and distortions. All this is compounded by the fact that Africans have themselves not sought direct knowledge of its Diasporas. Paul Tiyambe Zeleza''s book is an authoritative contribution to the initiation of Africa''s own exploration of whatever happened to its descendants outside the continent and how they are faring today. It is a tour de force that combines the aesthetic sensibilities and descriptive force of a novelist and essayist that Zeleza is and the scholarly authority of a renowned African historian. The result is a fascinating encounter with Africa''s Diaspora in the many places he visited. It is a gripping distillation of anecdote, personal reflections and analysis. Zeleza is an erudite traveler and thoroughly reliable guide whose account opens new vistas to the lives of Africa''s dispersed descendants. The book is a must-read for anyone who seeks to understand the complex outcomes of the Presence Africaine in the world." -- Professor Thandika Mkandawire, former Director of the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, Chair in African Development at the London School of Economics, University of London "...an engaging global history of African diasporas...A fine read for lower-level undergraduates first encountering diaspora studies...Summing Up: Highly recommended" -- CHOICE Magazine "...Zeleza writes with admirable clarity...in choosing to share the interactions of his fieldwork in this travel diary, Zeleza has produced a bold, challenging work..." -- Studies in Travel Writing
Chasing The Devil
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Author : Tim Butcher
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2010-09-02
Chasing The Devil written by Tim Butcher and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-02 with Travel categories.
For many years Sierra Leone and Liberia have been too dangerous to travel through, bedevilled by a uniquely brutal form of violence from which sprang many of Africa's cruellest contemporary icons - child soldiers, prisoner mutilation, blood diamonds. With their wars officially over, Tim Butcher sets out on a journey across both countries, trekking for 350 miles through remote rainforest and malarial swamps. Just as he followed H M Stanley through the Congo - a journey described in his bestseller Blood River - this time he pursues a trail blazed by Graham Greene in 1935 and immortalised in the travel classic Journey Without Maps. Greene took 26 bearers, a case of scotch, and hammocks in which he and his cousin Barbara were carried. Tim walks every blistering inch to gain an extraordinary ground-level view of a troubled and overlooked region. As a journalist in Africa, Tim came to know both countries well although the wars made trips to the jungle hinterland far too risky. This is where he now heads, exploring how rebel groups thrived in the bush for so long and whether the devil of war has truly been chased away. He encounters other 'devils', masked figures guarding the spiritual secrets of jungle communities. Some are no more threatening than schoolmasters but others are much more sinister, relying on ritual cannibalism as a source of their magical power. Tim encounters these devils on an epic journey that demands courage, doggedness and good fortune. Chasing the Devil is a dramatic travel book touching on one of the most fraught parts of the globe at a unique moment in its history. Weaving history and anthropology with personal narrative - as well as new discoveries about Greene - it is as exciting as it is enlightening.
In Search Of Africa S Great Tuskers
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Author : Johan Marais
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Global
Release Date : 2010
In Search Of Africa S Great Tuskers written by Johan Marais and has been published by Penguin Global this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Elephants categories.
In Search of the Great Tuskersis a celebration of the timeless beauty of untamed Africa - its mountains and deserts, tropical rainforests and endless savannahs. More particularly, though, it is a celebration of Africa's great tuskers - those bull elephants who are becoming increasingly rare in the twenty-first century, the legendary 'hundred-pounders' that were so plentiful in colonial times Johan Marais has long been fascinated by the mystery and dignity of these giants of the wilderness. In this book he takes us with him on his travels to some of the most remote and beautiful African landscapes in his quest to find and photograph Africa's great tuskers, and to find out what is being done to ensure their survival for future generations. Abundantly illustrated with Johan's magnificent photographs and Alan Ainslie's evocative drawings, this is a book that will appeal to all who delight in Africa's wild places.
Africa S Long Road Since Independence
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Author : Keith Somerville
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2017-01-26
Africa S Long Road Since Independence written by Keith Somerville and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-26 with History categories.
'A superb book...genuinely innovative' Jack Spence OBE, King's College London Over the last half century, sub-Saharan Africa has not had one history, but many. Histories that have intertwined, converged and diverged. They have involved a continuing process of decolonization and state-building, conflict, economic problems but also progress and the perpetual interplay of structure and agency. This new view of those histories looks in particular at the relationship between territorial, economic, political and societal structures and human agency in the complex and sometimes confusing development of an independent Africa. The story starts well before the granting of independence to Ghana in 1957, but the book also looks at Africa in the closing decades of the old millennium and opening ones of the new. This is a book, too, about the history of the peoples of Africa and their struggle for economic development against the global economic straitjacket into which they were strapped by colonial rule and decolonisation. The importance of imposed or inherited structures, whether the global capitalist system, of which Africa is a subordinate part, or the artificial and often inappropriate state borders and political systems is discussed in the light of the exercise of agency by African peoples, political movements and leaders.
Into Africa
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Author : Martin Dugard
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2004
Into Africa written by Martin Dugard and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Africa, Sub-Saharan categories.
In 1866 Britain S Foremost Explorer, Dr David Livingstone, Went In Search Of The Answer To An Age-Old Geographical Riddle: Where Was The Source Of The Nile? Livingstone Set Out With A Large Team, On A Course That Would Lead Through Unmapped, Seemingly Impenetrable Terrain Into Areas Populated By Fearsome Man-Eating Tribes. Within Weeks His Expedition Began To Fall Apart His Entourage Deserted Him And Livingstone Vanished Without Trace. He Would Not Be Heard From Again For Two Years.While Debate Raged In England Over Whether Livingstone Could Be Found In The Unmapped Wilderness Of The African Interior, James Gordon Bennet, A Brash Young American Newspaper Tycoon, Hatched A Plan To Capitalise On The World S Fascination With The Missing Legend. He Commissioned His Star Reporter, Henry Morton Stanley (Born John Rowlands In Wales!), To Search For Livingstone. Stanley Undertook His Quest With Gusto, Filing Reports That Captivated Readers And Dominated The Front Page Of The New York Herald For Months.Into Africa Traces The Journeys Of Livingstone And Stanley In Alternating Chapters. Livingstone S Is One Of Trials And Set-Backs, That Finds Him Alone And Miles From Civilisation. Stanley S Is An Awakening To The Beauty Of Africa, The Grandeur Of The Landscape And The Vivid Diversity Of Its Wildlife. It Is Also A Journey That Succeeds Beyond His Wildest Dreams, Clinching His Place In History With The Famous Enquiry: 'Dr Livingstone, I Presume?'. In This, The First Book To Examine The Extraordinary Physical Challenges, Political Intrigue And Larger-Than-Life Personalities Of This Legendary Story, Martin Dugard Has Opened A Fascinating Window On The Golden Age Of Exploration That Will Appeal To Everyone'S Sense Of Adventure.
The Race For Timbuktu
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Author : Frank T. Kryza
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2006
The Race For Timbuktu written by Frank T. Kryza and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with History categories.
In the first decades of the 19th century, no place burned more brightly in the imagination of European geographers and fortune hunters than the lost city of Timbuktu. This is the true story of Alexander Gordon Laing and the race to discover the city at a time when the continent was still largely unchartered.
In Search Of Modernity
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Author : Paul Tiyambe Zeleza
language : en
Publisher: Africa World Press
Release Date : 2003
In Search Of Modernity written by Paul Tiyambe Zeleza and has been published by Africa World Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Science categories.
Having grappled with the question of modernisation for a long time, Africa now faces an issue that, with an increasingly knowledge-based global economy, has only become more urgent in this new millennium. This volume examines Africa's scientific and technological literacy, production and consumption, focusing in detail on the constraints and challenges, opportunities and developments, and the strategies required to promote the advancement of IT and biotechnology in Africa, to help advance our understanding of science and technology developments in Africa.
Africa S Population In Search Of A Demographic Dividend
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Author : Hans Groth
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-05-23
Africa S Population In Search Of A Demographic Dividend written by Hans Groth and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-23 with Social Science categories.
This book examines the promises as well as the challenges the demographic dividend brings to sub-Saharan Africa as fertility rates in the region fall and the labor force grows. It offers a detailed analysis of what conditions must be met in order for the region to take full economic advantage of ongoing population dynamics. As the book makes clear, the region will need to accelerate reforms to cope with its demographic transition, in particular the decline of fertility. The continent will need to foster human capital formation through renewed efforts in the areas of education, health and employment. This will entail a true vision and determination on the part of African leaders and their development partners. The book will help readers to gain solid knowledge of the demographic trends and provide insights into socioeconomic policies that eventually might lead sub-Saharan Africa into a successful future.
