African Time
Author: Ife Kilimanjaro
Publisher:
Published: 2013-05-25
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780989114516
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South Africa
Author: Study Commission on U.S. Policy toward Southern Africa (U.S.)
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1981-01-01
Total Pages: 588
ISBN-13: 9780520045477
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the history, politics, and social problems of South Africa and suggests five objectives for U.S. policy toward that nation
Africa
Author: Thabo Mbeki
Publisher:
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book brings together 42 speeches by Deputy President Thabo Mbeki, most of which were delivered after the elections of April 1994. These speeches reflect the remarkable consistency and logic in Mbeki's thoughts on issues such as socio-economic justice, the alleviation of poverty, the opening up of opportunities, the need for development, and the achievement of reconciliation through transformation - all of which are recurrent themes throughout his speeches. Coupled with Mbeki's vision for South Africa is his devotion to, and identification with the African continent, and his dream of an African renaissance.
Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time
Author: Kathleen Bickford Berzock
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2019-02-26
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 069118268X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIssued in conjunction with the exhibition Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time, held January 26, 2019-July 21, 2019, Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.
Contingent Lives
Author: Caroline H. Bledsoe
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2002-07
Total Pages: 417
ISBN-13: 0226058522
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMost women in the West use contraception in order to avoid having children. But in rural sub-saharan Africa many women use it to have more children. This study of aging & reproduction makes use of ethnographic & demographic data.
The Time of Youth
Author: Alcinda Manuel Honwana
Publisher: Kumarian Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781565494718
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDraws on interviews in Mozambique, Senegal, South Africa, and Tunisia.
Africa Speaks, America Answers
Author: Robin D. G. Kelley
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2012-03-13
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 0674065247
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, pianist Randy Weston and bassist Ahmed Abdul-Malik celebrated with song the revolutions spreading across Africa. In Ghana and South Africa, drummer Guy Warren and vocalist Sathima Bea Benjamin fused local musical forms with the dizzying innovations of modern jazz. These four were among hundreds of musicians in the 1950's and '60's who forged connections between jazz and Africa that definitively reshaped both their music and the world. Each artist identified in particular ways with Africa's struggle for liberation and made music dedicated to, or inspired by, demands for independence and self-determination. That music was the wild, boundary-breaking exultation of modern jazz. The result was an abundance of conversation, collaboration, and tension between African and African American musicians during the era of decolonization. This collective biography demonstrates how modern Africa reshaped jazz, how modern jazz helped form a new African identity, and how musical convergences and crossings altered politics and culture on both continents. In a crucial moment when freedom electrified the African diaspora, these black artists sought one another out to create new modes of expression. Documenting individuals and places, from Lagos to Chicago, from New York to Cape Town, Robin Kelley gives us a meditation on modernity: we see innovation not as an imposition from the West but rather as indigenous, multilingual, and messy, the result of innumerable exchanges across a breadth of cultures.
Central Africa in the Caribbean
Author: Maureen Warner-Lewis
Publisher: University of the West Indies Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9789766401184
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA sweeping, multidisciplinary study that analyzes and identifies some of the main lineaments of the Central African cultural legacy in the Caribbean. This long-awaited study is based on more than three decades of research and analysis. Scholars will be fascinated with the transatlantic comparative data. The author identifies Central African cultural forms in those areas settled in Africa by the Koongo, Mbundu, and Ovimbunde. (The modern-day locations of these three ethnic groups are present-day Congo, Zaire and Angola.) The book illuminates Caribbean thought and practice by comparison with Central African worldview and custom. The work is based on extensive primary and secondary sources, oral interviews, letters and diaries, folktales, proverbs and songs. In its multidisciplinary approach and depth, it highlights the debate concerning the origin and transformation of cultural forms in the Caribbean against a larger background of African culture, economy, colonialism, slavery, emancipation and independence. With its Central African focus, the book is a pioneering perspective on Caribbean cultural forms. A noted linguist, the author uses her knowledge of the most functional languages
Africa in the Time of Cholera
Author: Myron Echenberg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-02-28
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 1139498967
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book combines evidence from natural and social sciences to examine the impact on Africa of seven cholera pandemics since 1817, particularly the current impact of cholera on such major countries as Senegal, Angola, Mozambique, Congo, Zimbabwe and South Africa. Myron Echenberg highlights the irony that this once-terrible scourge, having receded from most of the globe, now kills thousands of Africans annually - Africa now accounts for more than 90 percent of the world's cases and deaths - and leaves many more with severe developmental impairment. Responsibility for the suffering caused is shared by Western lending and health institutions and by often venal and incompetent African leadership. If the threat of this old scourge is addressed with more urgency, great progress in the public health of Africans can be achieved.
In My Time of Dying
Author: John Parker
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2021-03-16
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13: 0691214905
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn in-depth look at how mortuary cultures and issues of death and the dead in Africa have developed over four centuries In My Time of Dying is the first detailed history of death and the dead in Africa south of the Sahara. Focusing on a region that is now present-day Ghana, John Parker explores mortuary cultures and the relationship between the living and the dead over a four-hundred-year period spanning the seventeenth to twentieth centuries. Parker considers many questions from the African historical perspective, including why people die and where they go after death, how the dead are buried and mourned to ensure they continue to work for the benefit of the living, and how perceptions and experiences of death and the ends of life have changed over time. From exuberant funeral celebrations encountered by seventeenth-century observers to the brilliantly conceived designer coffins of the late twentieth century, Parker shows that the peoples of Ghana have developed one of the world’s most vibrant cultures of death. He explores the unfolding background of that culture through a diverse range of issues, such as the symbolic power of mortal remains and the dominion of hallowed ancestors, as well as the problem of bad deaths, vile bodies, and vengeful ghosts. Parker reconstructs a vast timeline of death and the dead, from the era of the slave trade to the coming of Christianity and colonial rule to the rise of the modern postcolonial nation. With an array of written and oral sources, In My Time of Dying richly adds to an understanding of how the dead continue to weigh on the shoulders of the living.
