Married To Africa
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Marry Me In Africa
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Author : E. Kofi Agorsah
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2012-09-17
Marry Me In Africa written by E. Kofi Agorsah and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-17 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Marry Me in Africa is an invitation to discuss approaches and processes in African marriage ritual. As one crucial institution in African culture, marriage in its traditional African definition has helped many of the continents cultures maintain a sense of community and identity. This book invites especially students and researchers into exchanges on some African marriage traditions and their roles in African societies. It concerns those aspects that fascinate me and many other Africans that we believe will interest people in the New World, particularly the Caribbean. Researchers of the African Diaspora might want to use some of the marriage practices for reconstructing models for analysis and interpretation of the formation and transformation of the African heritage in the Diaspora. Marry Me in Africa is particularly useful for scholars not familiar with the different cultural practices among African societies, their sources of identity and diversity, and the implications of these for understanding African social systems. This book will be a useful companion for other scholars who know about some of the cultural practices but are unable to identify exactly their relationship to specific ethnic groups, traditional concepts, social, political, economic, technological, and other practices that have constituted the patterns of cultural behavior among African societies through marriage. Individual or local cultural traditions and practices are presented within the context of the general African cultural heritage, leading to cross-cultural comparison and generalizations. The convergence of traditional marriage patterns and continuities in specific aspects of traditional values and behavior of various societies are examined over the common-ground sense of community among Africans that may not be the same today as in the past. For this reason this book takes the liberty to discuss present manifestations of a transformed past in the present.
Married To Africa
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Author : G. Pascal Zachary
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2009-04-21
Married To Africa written by G. Pascal Zachary and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04-21 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
G. Pascal Zachary is a foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal when he finds love in, of all places, the zoo in Accra, Ghana. That is where he meets Chizo Okon, the surrogate mother for an orphaned chimpanzee. In Married to Africa, Zachary tells their warm and humorous story, which is as much about the marriage of two cultures as it is about the marriage of two people. Chizo introduces Zachary to an Africa usually overlooked by visitors. He learns about the spiritual fervor of ordinary Africans, the mysterious power of juju and the rewards of eating bushmeat and other African dishes. He learns how to haggle effectively, pick a reliable taxi driver, live on "Africa time" and adapt to being a white minority in a black society. Chizo, meanwhile, deftly adapts to living with her obruni, the local nickname for a white person. As their romance deepens, the couple learns how differently things can appear to them. While Zachary indulges a passion for traditional African art, Chizo worries about the possible evil spirits harbored in his wooden statues. When the two move to San Francisco, Chizo must learn to navigate a new world. The result is a different kind of immigrant story, powered by a series of wacky, wonderful and unforgettable tales -- such as Chizo taking a machete to Zachary's ex-wife's garden (not out of malice, of course), driving enthusiastically without a license, charming her hard-boiled Jewish mother-in-law and managing requests from poor relatives in Africa. The arrival of Chizo's teenage daughter marks the end of the beginning and the start of a new saga in this uniquely American love story. Married to Africa is a tender and charming account of a marriage and a fascinating look at how two people come to know each other across culture and race.
Essays On African Marriage In Southern Africa
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Author : Eileen Jensen Krige
language : en
Publisher: Cape Town : Juta
Release Date : 1981
Essays On African Marriage In Southern Africa written by Eileen Jensen Krige and has been published by Cape Town : Juta this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Reference categories.
Transformations Of African Marriage
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Author : David Parkin
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-09-03
Transformations Of African Marriage written by David Parkin and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-03 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Originally published in 1987, this book shows that there is still considerable continuity in the practices and ideas of marriage in Afican against a background of social and economic change. This book discusses the diverse marriage forms in Africa and explores the different systems some of which can be understood in terms of Levi-Strauss's distinciton between complex and semi-complex structures, while others throw up questions of filiation, child custoidanship and rights secured through bridewealth transactions.
African Marriage And Social Change
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Author : Lucy P. Mair
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-11-26
African Marriage And Social Change written by Lucy P. Mair and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-26 with History categories.
First Published in 1969. Building upon the author's previous work, Survey of African Marriage and Family Life, this title's findings are intended to produce for policy-makers a picture of the forces producing changes in family relationships and the instability of marriage to which legislators, civil or religious, could refer when deciding what practices to treat as permissible and what to forbid. For this reason it has laid more emphasis than is usual in works of theoretical anthropology on specific aspects of African marriage where it has been assumed that the divergence was most marked.
Love In Africa
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Author : Jennifer Cole
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2009-08-01
Love In Africa written by Jennifer Cole and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-08-01 with Social Science categories.
In recent years, scholarly interest in love has flourished. Historians have addressed the rise of romantic love and marriage in Europe and the United States, while anthropologists have explored the ways globalization has reshaped local ideas about those same topics. Yet, love in Africa has been peculiarly ignored, resulting in a serious lack of understanding about this vital element of social life—a glaring omission given the intense focus on sexuality in Africa in the wake of HIV/AIDS. Love in Africa seeks both to understand this failure to consider love and to begin to correct it. In a substantive introduction and eight essays that examine a variety of countries and range in time from the 1930s to the present, the contributors collectively argue for the importance of paying attention to the many different cultural and historical strands that constitute love in Africa. Covering such diverse topics as the reception of Bollywood movies in 1950s Zanzibar, the effects of a Mexican telenovela on young people’s ideas about courtship in Niger, the models of romance promoted by South African and Kenyan magazines, and the complex relationship between love and money in Madagascar and South Africa, Love in Africa is a vivid and compelling look at love’s role in African society.
African Marriage And Social Change
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Author : Lucy Mair
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 1969
African Marriage And Social Change written by Lucy Mair and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with History categories.
First Published in 1969. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Love And Marriage In Africa
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Author : John S. Mbiti
language : en
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
Release Date : 1973
Love And Marriage In Africa written by John S. Mbiti and has been published by Longman Publishing Group this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with Social Science categories.
Survey Of African Marriage And Family Life
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Author : Arthur Phillips
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-09-03
Survey Of African Marriage And Family Life written by Arthur Phillips and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-03 with Social Science categories.
Originally published in 1953, this study examines the effect of social change on African domestic organization and marriage. Changes to African social organization due to increased contact with the West are analyzed and accounts given as to how these changes were handled by various administrations and missionaries. The volume is contributed to by lawyers, missionaries, anthropologists and sociologists from Africa, Europe and the USA.
The Family In Africa
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Author : Man Singh Das
language : en
Publisher: M.D. Publications Pvt. Ltd.
Release Date : 1993
The Family In Africa written by Man Singh Das and has been published by M.D. Publications Pvt. Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Social Science categories.
The Family in Africa is a valuable source book. It introduces the reader to the effect of industrialisation, urbanization and modernization on African society and consequent changes in family structure, marriage institution, kith relationship, sex role and lifestyle in third world countries- especially in Nigeria, somalia, tanzania, Swaizland and Libya.