People Of The Zongo
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People Of The Zongo
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Author : Enid Schildkrout
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2007-09-17
People Of The Zongo written by Enid Schildkrout 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 2007-09-17 with Philosophy categories.
Dr Schildkrout probes questions of ethnicity, religion, cultural change and the African national identity in this study of the immigrant community of Kumasi, Ghana's second largest city. She compares first- and second-generation immigrants - those born in their rural homelands, and those born in Ghana - in terms of their orientation to politics, to kinship, and to community participation. The author explores the meaning of ethnic identity for rural- and urban-born immigrants, and establishes certain generalizations about ethnicity based on these comparisons. The book discusses the issues of migration, particularly interregional migration; the position of the 'stranger'; questions of cultural change in modern Africa; the 'generational gap' in the African context; the questions of citizenship and national identity in Africa today, and the emergence of new identities, regional, national and religious. This book has importance not only as a local case study that gives a full description of West African urban life, but also as a theoretical reconsideration of ethnicity that has application outside the African context.
Landlords And Lodgers
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Author : Deborah Pellow
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2008-07
Landlords And Lodgers written by Deborah Pellow 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 2008-07 with Architecture categories.
Landlords and Lodgers analyzes the results of a long-term study of a Ghanaian zongo, or “stranger quarter”—a place of refuge for Hausa migrants from northern Nigeria who have relocated to the city of Accra. Deborah Pellow explores the relationships among community members both in terms of the built structures—rooms, doors, communal structures, and hallways—and of the social networks, institutions, and routine activities that define this unique urban neighborhood. This volume will be useful to students and scholars of the relationships between architecture, migration, and social change. “This richly observed and lovingly constructed portrait of a distinctive community will be of interest to spatially informed scholars of religion, immigration, minority communities, and gender.”—Gender, Place and Culture “This theoretically informed, well-researched, and closely written book should be quite useful. . . . A fine case study of urban sense of place in a unique, yet in some ways emblematic, West African neighborhood.”—Gareth Myers, Professional Geographer
Islam In A Zongo
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Author : Benedikt Pontzen
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2021-01-07
Islam In A Zongo written by Benedikt Pontzen 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 2021-01-07 with History categories.
An exploration of the diversity and complexity of 'everyday' lived religion among Muslims in a zongo community in Ghana.
Affective Trajectories
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Author : Hansjörg Dilger
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2020-02-28
Affective Trajectories written by Hansjörg Dilger and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-28 with Religion categories.
The contributors to Affective Trajectories examine the mutual and highly complex entwinements between religion and affect in urban Africa in the early twenty-first century. Drawing on ethnographic research throughout the continent and in African diasporic communities abroad, they trace the myriad ways religious ideas, practices, and materialities interact with affect to configure life in urban spaces. Whether examining the affective force of the built urban environment or how religious practices contribute to new forms of attachment, identification, and place-making, they illustrate the force of affect as it is shaped by temporality and spatiality in the religious lives of individuals and communities. Among other topics, they explore Masowe Apostolic Christianity in relation to experiences of displacement in Harare, Zimbabwe; Muslim identity, belonging, and the global ummah in Ghana; crime, emotions, and conversion to neo-Pentecostalism in Cape Town; and spiritual cleansing in a Congolese branch of a Japanese religious movement. In so doing, the contributors demonstrate how the social and material living conditions of African cities generate diverse affective forms of religious experiences in ways that foster both localized and transnational paths of emotional knowledge. Contributors. Astrid Bochow, Marian Burchardt, Rafael Cazarin, Hansjörg Dilger, Alessandro Gusman, Murtala Ibrahim, Peter Lambertz, Isabelle L. Lange, Isabel Mukonyora, Benedikt Pontzen, Hanspeter Reihling, Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon
Islam In A Zongo
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Author : Benedikt Pontzen
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2024-06-20
Islam In A Zongo written by Benedikt Pontzen 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 2024-06-20 with History categories.
Zongos, wards in West Africa populated by traders and migrants from the northern savannahs and the Sahel, are a common sight in Ghana's Asante region where the people of these wards represent a dual-minority as both foreigners and Muslims in a largely Christian area, facing marginalisation as a result. Islam provides the people of the zongos with a common ground and shared values, becoming central to their identity and to their shared sense of community. This detailed account of Islamic lifeworlds highlights the irreducible diversity and complexity of 'everyday' lived religion among Muslims in a zongo community. Benedikt Pontzen traces the history of Muslim presence in the region and analyses three Islamic phenomena encountered in its zongos in detail: Islamic prayer practices, the authorisation of Islamic knowledge, and ardently contested divination and healing practices. Drawing on empirical and archival research, oral histories, and academic studies, he demonstrates how Islam is inextricably bound up with the diverse ways in which Muslims live it.
Strangers In African Societies
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Author : William A. Shack
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1979-01-01
Strangers In African Societies written by William A. Shack and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979-01-01 with History categories.
Home Was Uncomfortable School Was Hell
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Author : Cecilia Sem Obeng
language : en
Publisher: Nova Publishers
Release Date : 2002
Home Was Uncomfortable School Was Hell written by Cecilia Sem Obeng and has been published by Nova Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Education categories.
Ghana has faced strong gender bias inside its educational institutions since gaining independence from Britain. This prejudice is fuelled by the legacy of the colonial powers, nurtured by Ghana's traditional anti-female beliefs, and made worse by various social crises and irresponsible politicians. These factors combine to limit girls' educational experiences, keeping females in complete submission to males. Many of the studies done on girls' education have focused on comparing the student population of girls and boys, but this book looks at the role played by societal belief systems and socio-educational and economic crises impacting girls' schooling. The author tells about the problems Ghanaian girls face through her own memories as a child and as a teacher in Ghanaian school. This book uses case studies of four girls who dropped out of school and their families and teachers to further the understanding of gender issues faced by Ghana in particular and educational systems in general.
An Introduction To Cultural Anthropology And Landmark
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Author : Gasmis Zongo
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
An Introduction To Cultural Anthropology And Landmark written by Gasmis Zongo and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Karim Lamido Local Government Area (Nigeria) categories.
The Cloth Of Many Colored Silks
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Author : John O. Hunwick
language : en
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Release Date : 1996
The Cloth Of Many Colored Silks written by John O. Hunwick and has been published by Northwestern University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with History categories.
A collection of essays honouring African scholar Ivor Wilks.
Daily Graphic
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Author : Ransford Tetteh
language : en
Publisher: Graphic Communications Group
Release Date : 2010-03-18
Daily Graphic written by Ransford Tetteh and has been published by Graphic Communications Group this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-18 with categories.
