Mobilizing The African Diasporas For The Development Of Africa
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Development And The African Diaspora
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Author : Doctor Claire Mercer
language : en
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.
Release Date : 2013-07-18
Development And The African Diaspora written by Doctor Claire Mercer and has been published by Zed Books Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-18 with Political Science categories.
There has been much recent celebration of the success of African 'civil society' in forging global connections through an ever-growing diaspora. Against the background of such celebrations, this innovative book sheds light on the diasporic networks - 'home associations' - whose economic contributions are being used to develop home. Despite these networks being part of the flow of migrants' resources back to Africa that now outweighs official development assistance, the relationship between the flow of capital and social and political change are still poorly understood. Looking in particular at Cameroon and Tanzania, the authors examine the networks of migrants that have been created by making 'home associations' international. They argue that claims in favour of enlarging 'civil society' in Africa must be placed in the broader context of the political economy of migration and wider debates concerning ethnicity and belonging. They demonstrate both that diasporic development is distinct from mainstream development, and that it is an uneven historical process in which some 'homes' are better placed to take advantage of global connections than others. In doing so, the book engages critically with the current enthusiasm among policy-makers for treating the African diaspora as an untapped resource for combating poverty. Its focus on diasporic networks, rather than private remittances, reveals the particular successes and challenges diasporas face in acting as a group, not least in mobilising members of the diaspora to fulfill obligations to home.
Re Engaging The African Diasporas
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Author : Charles Quist-Adade
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2016-08-17
Re Engaging The African Diasporas written by Charles Quist-Adade and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-17 with Social Science categories.
Re-engaging the African Diasporas: Pan-Africanism in the Age of Globalization is the second volume in the Kwame Nkrumah International Conference series, and brings together twenty selected papers presented at the Third Kwame Nkrumah International Conference held at Kwantlen Polytechnic University on August 19-21, 2014. Two premises inform this volume: (1) If the history of slavery and its vestiges divided and continue to divide the continent and its Diasporas, modern technology should be harnessed to bridge that divide, and (2) the continent’s development is a boon to the development of what the African Union has dubbed Africa’s “Sixth Region”. The book threads together papers that seek to give academic and intellectual impetus to tie the continent’s development to that of the African Diaspora. The goal is to end the inertia and inward-looking on the part of scholars and academics in both Africa and “African International” or “Global Africa,” and re-engage one another in more productive ways. By harnessing the enormous resources available in our internet age and riding the cresting wave of globalization, the task of re-engagement will be vastly enhanced, and the debates and discussions in this volume will serve to facilitate this re-engagement. A main highlight of the conference was a special tribute to Nelson Mandela to honour his death in December, 2013 and celebrate 20 years of South African independence. In these papers, scholars examine Mandela’s role in the transition of South Africa from a racist state to a democratic nation. They critically examine how the ANC’s policies have impacted post-Apartheid South Africa and question what alternatives remain for the future.
Diaspora For Development In Africa
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Author : Sonia Plaza
language : en
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Release Date : 2011
Diaspora For Development In Africa written by Sonia Plaza and has been published by World Bank Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Business & Economics categories.
Diaspora for Development in Africa will be of interest to migration scholars and policy makers worldwide. --Book Jacket.
Conceptualizing The African Diaspora Complications With Time Space Class And Gender
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Author : Emmanuel Twum Mensah
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2017-03-06
Conceptualizing The African Diaspora Complications With Time Space Class And Gender written by Emmanuel Twum Mensah and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-06 with History categories.
Essay from the year 2017 in the subject African Studies, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (Faculty of Social Sciences), course: History, language: English, abstract: The term “Diaspora” simply means a dispersion of a people, language or culture that was formerly concentrated in one place. But adding “Africa” to the term makes it complicated and difficult to define because of the way the African diaspora occurred and controversies among scholars in defining who an African is. This complexity raises questions such as is an African solely a black person, or is it someone who traces his descent to the continent and the ultimate question of whether Africans see themselves as one people or align themselves to their respective ethnic groups and to some extent their countries. The complications is further heightened by how various authors conceptualize the African Diaspora. The Atlantic model which dominates the African Diaspora popularized by Paul Gilroy tries to shift focus and attention on the forced migration of West Africans from 16th Century to the 19th Century as slaves to the new world. Scholars such as Zeleza therefore argues that there is the need to “de-Atlanticize and de-Americanize the histories of African diasporas” and identifies three main sets of African Diaspora namely the trans-Indian Ocean diasporas, trans-Mediterranean diasporas, and trans-Atlantic diasporas. These sets of African Diaspora have their own histories and their differences and similarities between them making it more difficult to conceptualize the African Diaspora as referring to one event. This essay therefore seeks to explain how the complications in conceptualizing the African Diaspora stretches across time, space, class and gender.
Re Engaging The African Diasporas
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Author : Charles Quist-Adade
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
Re Engaging The African Diasporas written by Charles Quist-Adade and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Pan-Africanism categories.
"Re-engaging the African Diasporas: Pan-Africanism in the Age of Globalization is the second volume in the Kwame Nkrumah International Conference series, and brings together twenty selected papers presented at the Third Kwame Nkrumah International Conference held at Kwantlen Polytechnic University on August 19-21, 2014. Two premises inform this volume: (1) If the history of slavery and its vestiges divided and continue to divide the continent and its Diasporas, modern technology should be harnessed to bridge that divide, and (2) the continent's development is a boon to the development of what the African Union has dubbed Africa's "Sixth Region". The book threads together papers that seek to give academic and intellectual impetus to tie the continent's development to that of the African Diaspora. The goal is to end the inertia and inward-looking on the part of scholars and academics in both Africa and "African International" or "Global Africa," and re-engage one another in more productive ways. By harnessing the enormous resources available in our internet age and riding the cresting wave of globalization, the task of re-engagement will be vastly enhanced, and the debates and discussions in this volume will serve to facilitate this re-engagement.A main highlight of the conference was a special tribute to Nelson Mandela to honour his death in December, 2013 and celebrate 20 years of South African independence. In these papers, scholars examine Mandela's role in the transition of South Africa from a racist state to a democratic nation. They critically examine how the ANC's policies have impacted post-Apartheid South Africa and question what alternatives remain for the future.
Africa And Its Global Diaspora
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Author : Jack Mangala
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-07-12
Africa And Its Global Diaspora written by Jack Mangala and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-12 with History categories.
The book presents a thorough study of the changing landscape of state-diaspora relations in Africa, as well as a robust analysis of diaspora engagement policies being pursued across the continent. As the Africa diaspora strengthens its socio-economic and political clout, countries of origin in Africa have sought to engage their citizens living abroad. Over the past decade, the role of diaspora in the homeland development has become a core tenet of national strategies and policies. Against the backdrop of expanding globalization and deepening regional integration, the book presents a thorough study of the changing landscape of state-diaspora relations in Africa, as well as a robust analysis of diaspora engagement policies being pursued across the continent as states seek to extend rights to and extract obligations from their global citizens.
Diasporas Development And Peacemaking In The Horn Of Africa
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Author : Liisa Laakso
language : en
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.
Release Date : 2014-08-14
Diasporas Development And Peacemaking In The Horn Of Africa written by Liisa Laakso and has been published by Zed Books Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-14 with Political Science categories.
Exiled populations, who increasingly refer to themselves as diaspora communities, hold a strong stake in the fate of their countries of origin. In a world becoming ever more interconnected, they engage in 'long-distance politics' towards, send financial remittances to and support social development in their homelands. Transnational diaspora networks have thus become global forces shaping the relationship between countries, regions and continents. This important intervention, written by scholars working at the cutting edge of diaspora and conflict, challenges the conventional wisdom that diaspora are all too often warmongers, their time abroad causing them to become more militant in their engagement with local affairs. Rather, they can and should be a force for good in bringing peace to their home countries. Featuring in-depth case studies from the Horn of Africa, including Somalia and Ethiopia, this volume presents an essential rethinking of a key issue in African politics and development.
The African Diaspora
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Author : Patrick Manning
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2010-03-05
The African Diaspora written by Patrick Manning 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 2010-03-05 with History categories.
Patrick Manning follows the multiple routes that brought Africans and people of African descent into contact with one another and with Europe, Asia, and the Americas. In joining these stories, he shows how the waters of the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Indian Ocean fueled dynamic interactions among black communities and cultures and how these patterns resembled those of a number of connected diasporas concurrently taking shaping across the globe. Manning begins in 1400 and traces the connections that enabled Africans to mutually identify and hold together as a global community. He tracks discourses on race, changes in economic circumstance, the evolving character of family life, and the growth of popular culture. He underscores the profound influence that the African diaspora had on world history and demonstrates the inextricable link between black migration and the rise of modernity. Inclusive and far-reaching, The African Diaspora proves that the advent of modernity cannot be fully understood without taking the African peoples and the African continent into account.
The African Diaspora
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Author : Toyin Falola
language : en
Publisher: University Rochester Press
Release Date : 2013
The African Diaspora written by Toyin Falola and has been published by University Rochester Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with History categories.
The African diaspora is arguably the most important event in modern African history. From the fifteenth century to the present, millions of Africans have been dispersed -- many of them forcibly, others driven by economic need or political persecution--to other continents, creating large communities with African origins living outside their native lands. The majority of these communities are in North America. This historic displacement has meant that Africans are irrevocably connected to economic and political developments in the West and globally. Among the known legacies of the diaspora are slavery, colonialism, racism, poverty, and underdevelopment, yet the ways in which these same factors worked to spur the scattering of Africans are not fully understood -- by those who were part of this migration or by scholars, historians, and policymakers. In this definitive study of the diaspora in North America, Toyin Falola offers a causal history of the western dispersion of Africans and its effects on the modern world. Reengaging old and familiar debates and framing new ones that enrich the discourse surrounding Africa, Falola isolates the thread, running nearly six centuries, that connects the history of slavery, the transatlantic slave trade, and current migrations. A boon to scholars and policymakers and accessible to the general reader, the book explores diverse narratives of migration and shows that the cultures that migrated from Africa to the Americas have the capacity to unite and create a new pan-Africanist movement within the globalized world. Toyin Falola is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the 2011 recipient of the Distinguished Africanist Award from the African Studies Association and serves as the vice president of the International Scientific Committee of the UNESCO Slave Route Project. His previous books published by the University of Rochester Press include The Power of African Cultures and Nationalism and African Intellectuals.
African Re Genesis
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Author : Jay B Haviser
language : en
Publisher: Left Coast Press
Release Date : 2006
African Re Genesis written by Jay B Haviser and has been published by Left Coast Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with History categories.
An exploration of the archaeology of the African diaspora.