Africa Today

Author : Nathan Andrews
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443846394

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Africa Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow by Nathan Andrews Pdf

From a multi-dimensional and interdisciplinary standpoint, this book challenges the teleological and unidirectional notions of development embodied in the idea of modernisation or ‘progress’ and offers a critique of the tendency to consider Africa as a basket case, which often gives the Western ‘self’ an undeserving privilege and superiority over the African ‘other’. Mostly authored by emerging African scholars, this 16-chapter volume addresses the historical application of development projects in Africa and their modern impact in economic, political, cultural, social, and infrastructural contexts, among others. The book, therefore, unearths development dynamics in specific African countries, examines the continent’s external relations, rethinks predominant ideas on development, and engages in critical examination of concepts and practices that have maintained hegemonic positions in the discussions on Africa’s development. Its uniqueness lies in the ability to bring these several voices and themes together into a concise conception of both the challenges and possibilities of Africa’s sustainable development. The book targets both the academic and policy worlds in Africa and around the world, as well as ordinary members of the public who seek to broaden their theoretical and empirical understanding on the changing dynamics on the African continent.

Author : Heather Deegan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2008-11-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134112814

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Africa Today by Heather Deegan Pdf

In the post 9/11 global environment Africa is standing at a crossroads in international affairs as the combined issues of politics, religion and security attract renewed interest. While some countries seem to be moving forward with greater levels of confidence, democracy and stability, others continue to be mired in conflict, poverty and religious/ethnic division. This text focuses on key contemporary issues that the continent faces, providing a comprehensive introduction of current political, religious, developmental and security concerns. Features include: Individual chapters devoted to key issues including health, gender, corruption, religion and the newly emerging problems of human security. Case studies and detailed analysis of topical issues, including: Muslim/Christian clashes: Kano, Northern Nigeria Conflict, Arms and Reconstruction: Darfur and Sierra Leone Comprehensive range of countries discussed including: Zimbabwe, Botswana, Kenya Ethiopia, Uganda, Lesotho, Somalia, Namibia and Madagascar. Fully up-to-date statistics including primary research based on interviews conducted by the author, providing data for both individual countries and the continent as a whole. Boxed descriptions explaining clearly the ideas in important subject areas, such as Islamic law and society By drawing on the author’s empirical research and situating discussion within the context of wider debate, Africa Today is designed both to introduce and to develop a deeper understanding of this rapidly changing continent an essential text for all students of African politics and International Relations.

Author : Bosela E Eale,Njoroge J Ngige
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1506483607

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Addressing Contextual Misleading Theologies in Africa Today by Bosela E Eale,Njoroge J Ngige Pdf

This volume offers constructive and contextual discussions to promote a life of dignity based on practical theology. The book discusses issues of health, healing, wealth, and poverty pertinent in Africa. Misleading theologies, like the prosperity gospel, contribute to practices in authority that contrast the teachings of God to respect others.

Author : Al J. Venter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Africa
ISBN : STANFORD:36105083081278

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Africa Today by Al J. Venter Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Africa
ISBN : UOM:39015079677194

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Africa Today by Anonim Pdf

Author : James N. M. B. Rugiireheh-Runaku
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Africa
ISBN : IND:30000053020875

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The Face of Africa Today by James N. M. B. Rugiireheh-Runaku Pdf

Author : Edem Kodjo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UVA:X002185802

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Africa Today by Edem Kodjo Pdf

Author : Chris Spring
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781588343802

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African Textiles Today by Chris Spring Pdf

African Textiles Today illustrates how African history is read, told, and recorded in cloth. All artifacts or works of art hold within them stories that range far beyond the time of their creation or the lifetime of their creator, and African textiles are patterned with these hidden histories. In Africa, cloth may be used to memorialize or commemorate something - an event, a person, a political cause - which in other parts of the world might be written down in detail or recorded by a plaque or monument. History in Africa can be read, told, and recorded in cloth. Making and trading numerous types of cloth have been vital elements in African life and culture for at least two millennia, linking different parts of the continent with each other and the rest of the world. Africa's long engagement with the peoples of the Mediterranean and the islands of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans provides a story of change and continuity. African Textiles Today shows how ideas, techniques, materials, and markets have adapted and flourished, and how the dynamic traditions in African textiles have provided inspiration for the continent's foremost contemporary artists and photographers. With a concluding chapter discussing the impact of African designs across the world, the book offers a fascinating insight into the living history of Africa.

Author : Michael Jindra,Joël Noret
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857452061

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Funerals in Africa by Michael Jindra,Joël Noret Pdf

Across Africa, funerals and events remembering the dead have become larger and even more numerous over the years. Whereas in the West death is normally a private and family affair, in Africa funerals are often the central life cycle event, unparalleled in cost and importance, for which families harness vast amounts of resources to host lavish events for multitudes of people with ramifications well beyond the event. Though officials may try to regulate them, the popularity of these events often makes such efforts fruitless, and the elites themselves spend tremendously on funerals. This volume brings together scholars who have conducted research on funerary events across sub-Saharan Africa. The contributions offer an in-depth understanding of the broad changes and underlying causes in African societies over the years, such as changes in religious beliefs, social structure, urbanization, and technological changes and health.

Author : United States. Department of the Army
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Africa
ISBN : STANFORD:36105211439729

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Africa Today by United States. Department of the Army Pdf

Author : AFRICA: YESTERDAY AND TODAY
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Africa yesterday and Today by AFRICA: YESTERDAY AND TODAY Pdf

Author : John A. Chesworth,Franz Kogelmann
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004262126

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Sharīʿa in Africa Today by John A. Chesworth,Franz Kogelmann Pdf

Sharīʿa in Africa Today. Reactions and Responses explores how Islamic law has influenced relations between Muslims and Christians, through a series of case studies by young African scholars working in Sudan, Nigeria, Kenya and Tanzania

Author : Tatah Mentan
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Africa
ISBN : 9789956558575

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Democratizing or Reconfiguring Predatory Autocracy? Myths and Realities in Africa Today by Tatah Mentan Pdf

The celebrations that heralded democratic change in the 1990s in Africa have gradually faded into muffled cries of anger and attendant violence of despair. Almost everywhere on the continent so-called democratic leaders are openly subverting the people's will and disregarding national constitutions. Ordinary people find themselves removed from the centres of power, marginalized and reduced to helpless and hopeless onlookers as political leaders, their friends and families noisily enjoy the spoils of impunity. From Nigeria to Zimbabwe, Kenya to the Ivory Coast and Uganda to Cameroon, the writing is on the wall. The experiment with democracy has blatantly taken a dangerous nosedive. There is a crisis of honest, committed and democratic leadership, in spite of the advancements in education and intellectualism of the populace, and despite the influences of globalization and new understandings of governance. In this brief volume, Tatah Mentan makes an incisive diagnosis of how the "security forces" brutally crush protests against bids to stay in power through corrupt electoral practices as well as how opposition voices have been hunted down and crushed or intimidated into graveyard silence. This is a clarion call for Africans to embrace the values of People Power in synch with the dictates of the current global imperatives. There is no place for visionless leadership. Africans need to raise their voices to recapture their freedom.

Author : Boris Gorelik
Publisher : Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies and Research, University of Cape Town
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780799224689

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A Lost Tribe: Russian-speaking Jews in South Africa Today by Boris Gorelik Pdf

There is a group of Jews in South Africa that has been almost overlooked by local Jewish organisations. In fact they are not even viewed as an entity, but rather as an aggregate of individuals whose number is unknown. These are the Russian-speaking Jews from the former Soviet Union- South African Jewry's 'lost tribe'. Unlike Israel, Germany or the United States, South Africa did not experience the influx of hundreds of thousands of Soviet and post-Soviet Jews in the 1970s to 1990s. That is probably a reason why neither researchers nor journalists has ever considered them as a South African phenomenon. In addition, unlike those Jews from the ex-USSR in Israel, Germany or the United States, in South Africa they have not formed their own communities and do not play a prominent part in the existing ones. In fact, they usually appear to be unwilling to involve themselves with South African Jewish organisations. They keep their distance and are not as religious or Zionist as their locally-born counterparts and are generally not community oriented. To some observers they may even appear to be more Russian than Jewish. Generally speaking, ex-USSR emigres are not clearly bound to their Jewish identity. They might be Jews but do they manifest any 'Jewishness'?

Author : Jonathan Derrick
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000647525

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Africa's Slaves Today by Jonathan Derrick Pdf

Africa’s Slaves Today, first published in 1975, examines the question of the persistence of slavery in modern Africa. It concludes that slavery is by no means dead in certain regions, but that at the same time clear-cut definitions of ‘slave’ and ‘free’ are often impossible to establish. In the Sahara particularly centuries of tradition involving slavery or semi-slavery have ensured a persistence of the status quo in all but name. Recent instances of Africans sold into slavery in Arabia are discussed, together with a detailed survey of slavery throughout North Africa and Ethiopia. At what stage forced labour becomes slavery is a difficult question raised by the discussion of the white South. The whole subject of slavery is put into perspective by contrasting examinations of the historical situation throughout the book.