Les sociétés africaines et le monde
Les sociétés africaines et le monde

Author: Gérald Attali

Publisher:

Published: 2022

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9782340071247

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"Loin des affaires du monde, isolée et repliée sur elle-même, pauvre, naïve, n'entrant dans l'Histoire avec un grand -H que par défaut, celle des multiples dominations extérieures subies, depuis les traites négrières jusqu'à la colonisation européenne des XIXe et XXe siècles. Voilà comment l'Afrique a été longtemps perçue et l'est encore en partie aujourd'hui. Pourtant, l'histoire de l'Afrique est d'une incroyable richesse tout au long du XXe siècle, et, mieux encore, elle est au cœur des processus mondiaux, permettant ainsi de multiples formes de connexions entre les sociétés africaines et le monde. La question mise au programme, couvrant la période allant de la première conférence panafricaine en 1900 à l'indépendance du Zimbabwe en 1980, demande ainsi résolument de renverser les perspectives habituelles dans l'étude de l'Afrique, des Africains et des Africaines, en mettant au centre non pas les dominations et les acteurs venus de l'extérieur, mais les sociétés africaines elles-mêmes. C'est sans doute pour de nombreux candidats une révolution copernicienne qu'il leur faut effectuer, mais qui a déjà été accomplie par une historiographie riche et très dynamique depuis deux décennies." --

A History of Borno
A History of Borno

Author: Vincent Hiribarren

Publisher: Hurst & Company

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 1849044740

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Borno (in northeast Nigeria) is notorious today as the home of an Islamist terrorist group, Boko Haram, whose insurgency is a major security threat, but it was once the heartland of the Kanuri-speaking royal empire of Kanem-Borno, renowned throughout Africa and beyond, which in its later incarnation, the Bornu Empire, lasted from 1380 to 1893. This book offers the reader the first modern history of Borno, drawing upon sources in London, Berlin, Paris, Kaduna and Maiduguri and recently released 'migrated archives'. As its longevity suggests, what is particularly remarkable about Borno is the permanence of its boundaries-its territorial integrity-which dates back centuries, and the political and social identities that such borders framed in the minds of its inhabitants.

Cuba and Africa, 1959-1994
Cuba and Africa, 1959-1994

Author: Kali Argyriadis

Publisher: Wits University Press

Published: 2020-11-01

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 1776146379

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A history of Atlantic solidarity between Cuba and Africa, in struggle for African independence from colonial powers The Cuban people hold a special place in the hearts of the people of Africa. The Cuban internationalists have made a contribution to African independence, freedom, and justice, unparalleled for its principled and selfless character.’ As Nelson Mandela states, Cuba was a key participant in the struggle for the independence of African countries during the Cold War and the definitive ousting of colonialism from the continent. Beyond the military interventions that played a decisive role in shaping African political history, there were many-sided engagements between the island and the continent. Cuba and Africa, 1959-1994 is the story of tens of thousands of individuals who crossed the Atlantic as doctors, scientists, soldiers, students and artists. Each chapter presents a case study – from Algeria to Angola, from Equatorial Guinea to South Africa – and shows how much of the encounter between Cuba and Africa took place in non-militaristic fields: humanitarian and medical, scientific and educational, cultural and artistic. The historical experience and the legacies documented in this book speak to the major ideologies that shaped the colonial and postcolonial world, including internationalism, developmentalism and South–South cooperation. Approaching African–Cuban relations from a multiplicity of angles, this collection will appeal to an equally wide range of readers, from scholars in black Atlantic studies to cultural theorists and general readers with an interest in contemporary African history.

Exodus!
Exodus!

Author: Giulia Bonacci

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 482

ISBN-13: 9789766405038

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In 1977, Bob Marley composed Exodus, a reggae masterpiece that evokes the return of Rastafari to Africa. Over the past fifty years, Rastafari have made the journey to Ethiopia, settling in the country as "repatriates". This little-known history is told in Exodus! Heirs and Pioneers, Rastafari Return to Ethiopia. Giulia Bonacci recounts, with sharpness and rigour, this amazing journey of Rastafari who left the Caribbean, the United States and the United Kingdom. Exiting from the Babylon of the West and entering the Zion that is Ethiopia, the exodus has a pan-African dimension that is significant to the present day. Despite facing complex challenges in their relations with the Ethiopian state and its people, mystical and determined Rastafari keep arriving to Shashemene, their Promised Land. Revealing personal trajectories, Giulia Bonacci shows that Rastafari were not the first black settlers in Ethiopia. She tracks the history of return over the decades, demonstrating that the utopian idea of return is also a reality. Exodus! is based on in-depth archival and print research, as well as on a wide range of oral histories collected in Ethiopia, Jamaica, Ghana and the United States. Originally published in French in 2010 by Editions L'Harmattan, this translation is the first time Bonacci's valuable work has been made widely available to an English-speaking audience. "A wonderfully comprehensive almost epic study, lavishly illustrated. . . . But most importantly it is also a work based on fifty fascinating interviews . . . of some of those who 'returned' from the diaspora to an African homeland that was almost unknown to them." --Professor Hakim Adi, Professor of the History of Africa and the African Diaspora, University of Chichester "This is unquestionably the most important book on Rastafari to appear in over a decade. . . . Bonacci has produced a richly layered text that fills a major gap in the literature on Rastafari and history of African repatriation." --Jake Homiak, Director, National Anthropological Archives, Department of Anthropology, Smithsonian Institution

Popular Music Censorship in Africa
Popular Music Censorship in Africa

Author: Michael Drewett

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780754652915

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In Africa, tension between freedom of expression and censorship in many contexts remains as contentious, if not more so, than during the period of colonial rule which permeated the twentieth century. This volume brings together the latest research on censorship in Africa, focusing on the attempts to censor musicians and the strategies of resistance devised by musicians in their struggles to be heard. It also includes a special section on case studies that highlight issues of nationality.

The Social Meaning of Money
The Social Meaning of Money

Author: Viviana A. Zelizer

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2021-09-14

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 069123700X

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A dollar is a dollar—or so most of us believe. Indeed, it is part of the ideology of our time that money is a single, impersonal instrument that impoverishes social life by reducing relations to cold, hard cash. After all, it's just money. Or is it? Distinguished social scientist and prize-winning author Viviana Zelizer argues against this conventional wisdom. She shows how people have invented their own forms of currency, earmarking money in ways that baffle market theorists, incorporating funds into webs of friendship and family relations, and otherwise varying the process by which spending and saving takes place. Zelizer concentrates on domestic transactions, bestowals of gifts and charitable donations in order to show how individuals, families, governments, and businesses have all prescribed social meaning to money in ways previously unimagined.