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New Perspectives on African Childhood

De-Valera N.Y.M. Botchway,Awo Sarpong,Charles Quist-Adade

Author : De-Valera N.Y.M. Botchway,Awo Sarpong,Charles Quist-Adade
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781622735341

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What does it mean to be a child in Africa? In the detached Western media, narratives of penury, wickedness and death have dominated portrayals of African childhood. The hegemonic lens of the West has failed to take into account the intricacies of not only what it means to be an African child in local and culturally specific contexts, but also African childhood in general. Challenging colonial discourses, this edited volume guides the reader through different comprehensions and perspectives of childhood in Africa. Using a blend of theory, empiricism and history, the contributors to this volume offer studies from a range of fields including African literature, Afro-centric psychology and sociology. Importantly, in its eclectic geographical coverage of Africa, this book unashamedly presents the good, the bad and the ugly of African childhood. The resilience, creativity, pains and triumphs of African childhood are skilfully woven together to present the myriad of lived experiences and aspirations of children from across Africa. As an important contribution to African childhood studies, this book has the potential to be used by policymakers to shape, sustain or change socio-cultural, economic and education systems that accommodate African childhood dynamics and experiences at different levels.

Beyond the Boundaries of Childhood

Crystal Lynn Webster

Author : Crystal Lynn Webster
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469663241

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For all that is known about the depth and breadth of African American history, we still understand surprisingly little about the lives of African American children, particularly those affected by northern emancipation. But hidden in institutional records, school primers and penmanship books, biographical sketches, and unpublished documents is a rich archive that reveals the social and affective worlds of northern Black children. Drawing evidence from the urban centers of Boston, New York, and Philadelphia, Crystal Webster's innovative research yields a powerful new history of African American childhood before the Civil War. Webster argues that young African Americans were frequently left outside the nineteenth century's emerging constructions of both race and childhood. They were marginalized in the development of schooling, ignored in debates over child labor, and presumed to lack the inherent innocence ascribed to white children. But Webster shows that Black children nevertheless carved out physical and social space for play, for learning, and for their own aspirations. Reading her sources against the grain, Webster reveals a complex reality for antebellum Black children. Lacking societal status, they nevertheless found meaningful agency as historical actors, making the most of the limited freedoms and possibilities they enjoyed.

Born a Crime

Trevor Noah

Author : Trevor Noah
Publisher : One World
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780399588181

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • More than one million copies sold! A “brilliant” (Lupita Nyong’o, Time), “poignant” (Entertainment Weekly), “soul-nourishing” (USA Today) memoir about coming of age during the twilight of apartheid “Noah’s childhood stories are told with all the hilarity and intellect that characterizes his comedy, while illuminating a dark and brutal period in South Africa’s history that must never be forgotten.”—Esquire Winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor and an NAACP Image Award • Named one of the best books of the year by The New York Time, USA Today, San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, Esquire, Newsday, and Booklist Trevor Noah’s unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother at a time when such a union was punishable by five years in prison. Living proof of his parents’ indiscretion, Trevor was kept mostly indoors for the earliest years of his life, bound by the extreme and often absurd measures his mother took to hide him from a government that could, at any moment, steal him away. Finally liberated by the end of South Africa’s tyrannical white rule, Trevor and his mother set forth on a grand adventure, living openly and freely and embracing the opportunities won by a centuries-long struggle. Born a Crime is the story of a mischievous young boy who grows into a restless young man as he struggles to find himself in a world where he was never supposed to exist. It is also the story of that young man’s relationship with his fearless, rebellious, and fervently religious mother—his teammate, a woman determined to save her son from the cycle of poverty, violence, and abuse that would ultimately threaten her own life. The stories collected here are by turns hilarious, dramatic, and deeply affecting. Whether subsisting on caterpillars for dinner during hard times, being thrown from a moving car during an attempted kidnapping, or just trying to survive the life-and-death pitfalls of dating in high school, Trevor illuminates his curious world with an incisive wit and unflinching honesty. His stories weave together to form a moving and searingly funny portrait of a boy making his way through a damaged world in a dangerous time, armed only with a keen sense of humor and a mother’s unconventional, unconditional love.

It's Trevor Noah: Born a Crime

Trevor Noah

Author : Trevor Noah
Publisher : Delacorte Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780525582168

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It's Trevor Noah: Born a Crime by Trevor Noah Pdf

The host of The Daily Show, Trevor Noah, shares his personal story and the injustices he faced while growing up half black, half white in South Africa under and after apartheid in this New York Times bestselling young readers' adaptation of his adult memoir. “A piercing reminder that every mad life--even yours--could end up a masterpiece." --JASON REYNOLDS, New York Times bestselling author We do horrible things to one another because we don’t see the person it affects. . . . We don’t see them as people. Trevor Noah, host of The Daily Show on Comedy Central, shares his remarkable story of growing up in South Africa with a black South African mother and a white European father at a time when it was against the law for a mixed-race child to exist. But he did exist--and from the beginning, the often-misbehaved Trevor used his keen smarts and humor to navigate a harsh life under a racist government. In a country where racism barred blacks from social, educational, and economic opportunity, Trevor surmounted staggering obstacles and created a promising future for himself thanks to his mom’s unwavering love and indomitable will. This honest and poignant memoir adapted from the #1 New York Times bestseller Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood will astound and inspire readers as well as offer a fascinating perspective on South Africa’s tumultuous racial history. BORN A CRIME IS SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING OSCAR WINNER LUPITA NYONG'O!

New Perspectives on African Childhood

De-Valera NYM Botchway,Awo Sarpong,Charles Quist-Adade

Author : De-Valera NYM Botchway,Awo Sarpong,Charles Quist-Adade
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781622735877

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What does it mean to be a child in Africa? In the detached Western media, narratives of penury, wickedness and death have dominated portrayals of African childhood. The hegemonic lens of the West has failed to take into account the intricacies of not only what it means to be an African child in local and culturally specific contexts, but also African childhood in general. Challenging colonial discourses, this edited volume guides the reader through different comprehensions and perspectives of childhood in Africa. Using a blend of theory, empiricism and history, the contributors to this volume offer studies from a range of fields including African literature, Afro-centric psychology and sociology. Importantly, in its eclectic geographical coverage of Africa, this book unashamedly presents the good, the bad and the ugly of African childhood. The resilience, creativity, pains and triumphs of African childhood are skilfully woven together to present the myriad of lived experiences and aspirations of children from across Africa. As an important contribution to African childhood studies, this book has the potential to be used by policymakers to shape, sustain or change socio-cultural, economic and education systems that accommodate African childhood dynamics and experiences at different levels.

Children on the Move in Africa

Elodie Razy,Marie Rodet

Author : Elodie Razy,Marie Rodet
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9781847011381

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A timely interdisciplinary, comparative and historical perspective on African childhood migration that draws on the experience of children themselves to look at where, why and how they move - within and beyond the continent - andthe impact of African child migration globally.

The Dark Child

Camara Laye

Author : Camara Laye
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1954-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 080901548X

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The Dark Child is a distinct and graceful memoir of Camara Laye's youth in the village of Koroussa, French Guinea. Long regarded Africa's preeminent Francophone novelist, Laye (1928-80) herein marvels over his mother's supernatural powers, his father's distinction as the village goldsmith, and his own passage into manhood, which is marked by animistic beliefs and bloody rituals of primeval origin. Eventually, he must choose between this unique place and the academic success that lures him to distant cities. More than autobiography of one boy, this is the universal story of sacred traditions struggling against the encroachment of a modern world. A passionate and deeply affecting record, The Dark Child is a classic of African literature.

Hopeful

Asa Ahimbisibwe

Author : Asa Ahimbisibwe
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781525544118

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Hopeful by Asa Ahimbisibwe Pdf

Hopeful describes the real life stories of children who were born in a rural poor village in an African country-Uganda. One of them, overcomes the challenges of poverty and cultural barriers with the help of his uneducated parents, who decided to do something that had not been done before; sacrifice everything including selling off their family land, become ridiculed by the villagers but believed, against all hope to send their son to school. Their son, determined to remove shame from his parents, knowing that his only way of ever escaping the cycle of poverty was through education, rose to the challenges from the rural poor villages into the country's Medical schools. The book also tells the story about girls in developing countries and their struggle to get an education. It sheds a light on the cultural and social barriers that the world needs to address, when it comes to the education of the girl child. In the end, the book tells the reader, how the success of one child, challenged and changed the perception about education in this part of the country. But also sheds a light about the real cause of the poor maternal and child health indicators in the developing world-lack of women empowerment through education.

Childhood in African Literature

Eldred D. Jones,Marjorie Jones

Author : Eldred D. Jones,Marjorie Jones
Publisher : Africa World Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0865436738

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Childhood in African Literature by Eldred D. Jones,Marjorie Jones Pdf

"African authors have consistently returned to childhood to find their personal as well as their racial roots. Far from being merely nostalgic yearnings for a lost paradise, many of the treatments of childhood as shown in articles in this issue have exposed a grim reality of cruelty, harshness, parental (particularly paternal) egocentrism and extraordinary bruisings of the vulnerable child psyche. Camara Laye may have portrayed a paradise state but Yvonne Vera has treated one of the cruelest features of childhood anywhere. African authors generally have been sternly responsible in their portrayal of childhood." -- Publisher's description

Childhood in Contemporary Diasporic African Literature

Christopher E. W. Ouma

Author : Christopher E. W. Ouma
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030362560

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Childhood in Contemporary Diasporic African Literature by Christopher E. W. Ouma Pdf

This book examines the representation of figures, memories and images of childhood in selected contemporary diasporic African fiction by Adichie, Abani, Wainaina and Oyeyemi. The book argues that childhood is a key framework for thinking about contemporary African and African Diasporic identities. It argues that through the privileging of childhood memory, alternative conceptions of time emerge in this literature, and which allow African writers to re-imagine what family, ethnicity, nation means within the new spaces of diaspora that a majority of them occupy. The book therefore looks at the connections between childhood, space, time and memory, childhood gender and sexuality, childhoods in contexts of war, as well as migrant childhoods. These dimensions of childhood particularly relate to the return of the memory of Biafra, the figures of child soldiers, memories of growing up in Cold War Africa, queer boyhoods/sonhood as well as experiences of migration within Africa, North America and Europe.

New Directions in African Literature

Ernest Emenyo̲nu,Patricia Thornton Emenyonu,F. D. Imbuga

Author : Ernest Emenyo̲nu,Patricia Thornton Emenyonu,F. D. Imbuga
Publisher : James Currey Publishers
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : African literature
ISBN : 9780852555705

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New Directions in African Literature by Ernest Emenyo̲nu,Patricia Thornton Emenyonu,F. D. Imbuga Pdf

Contributors to this volume ask what are the new directions of African literature? What should be the major concerns of writers, critics and teachers in the twenty-first century? What are the accomplishments and legacies? What gaps remain to be filled, and what challenges are there to be addressed by publishers and the book industry? What are the implications for pedagogy in the new technological era? ERNEST EMENYONU is Professor of the Department of Africana Studies University of Michigan-Flint. North America: Africa World Press; Nigeria: HEBN

Childhood in Global Perspective

Karen Wells

Author : Karen Wells
Publisher : Polity
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780745638379

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This compelling new book offers a unique global perspective on children’s lives throughout the world. It shows how the notion of childhood is being radically re-shaped, in part as a consequence of globalization. Taking an engaging historical and comparative approach, the book discusses wide-ranging issues such as children and war, child labour and young people’s activism around the globe. Important themes considered include: How children are constituted as raced, classed and gendered subjects; How family policy results in some kinds of family being labelled as normal and others as deviant, and how this impacts in children; How children’s involvement in war is connected to the globalization of capitalism and organised crime; How school and work operate as sites for the governing of childhood. This book will be of great value to students and scholars in the fields of sociology, social policy and development studies. It will also be a valuable companion to practitioners of international development and social work, as well as to anyone interested in childhood in the contemporary world.

The Condition of Young Children in Sub-Saharan Africa

Nat J. Colletta,Jayshree Balachander,Xiaoyan Liang

Author : Nat J. Colletta,Jayshree Balachander,Xiaoyan Liang
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0821336770

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The Condition of Young Children in Sub-Saharan Africa by Nat J. Colletta,Jayshree Balachander,Xiaoyan Liang Pdf

Reviews the World Bank's experience in industrial restructuring in 46 countries during the past 14 years. The study finds that for most completed public enterprise restructuring operations, sustainability of benefits was a large problem, mainly because of fragile sector reforms and inadequate governance and management. Those completed for the private sector experienced poor outcomes from inadequate attention to country economic conditions and policy distortions. To overcome such problems, the study recommends that future restructuring operations be designed and implemented to have an impact at the firm level.

Childhood in a Global Perspective

Karen Wells

Author : Karen Wells
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-02
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780745684970

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Childhood in a Global Perspective by Karen Wells Pdf

The second edition of this compelling and popular book offers a unique global perspective on children’s lives throughout the world. It shows how the notion of childhood is being radically re-shaped, in part as a consequence of globalization. Taking an engaging historical and comparative approach, the book explores social issues such as how children are constituted as raced, classed and gendered subjects; how children’s involvement in war is connected to the globalization of capitalism and organized crime; and how school and work operate as sites for the governing of childhood. The book discusses wide-ranging topics including children’s rights, the family, children and war, child labour and young people’s activism around the globe. In addition to updated literature throughout, the revised edition includes new chapters on migration and trafficking, and the role of play. The book will continue to be of great value to students and scholars in the fields of sociology, geography, social policy and development studies. It will also be a valuable companion to practitioners of international development and social work, as well as to anyone interested in childhood in the contemporary world.

Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight

Alexandra Fuller

Author : Alexandra Fuller
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2003-03-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780375758997

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A worthy heir to Isak Dinesen and Beryl Markham, Alexandra Fuller shares visceral memories of her childhood in Africa, and of her headstrong, unforgettable mother. “This is not a book you read just once, but a tale of terrible beauty to get lost in over and over.”—Newsweek “By turns mischievous and openhearted, earthy and soaring . . . hair-raising, horrific, and thrilling.”—The New Yorker Though it is a diary of an unruly life in an often inhospitable place, Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight is suffused with Fuller’s endearing ability to find laughter, even when there is little to celebrate. Fuller’s debut is unsentimental and unflinching but always captivating. In wry and sometimes hilarious prose, she stares down disaster and looks back with rage and love at the life of an extraordinary family in an extraordinary time. From 1972 to 1990, Alexandra Fuller—known to friends and family as Bobo—grew up on several farms in southern and central Africa. Her father joined up on the side of the white government in the Rhodesian civil war, and was often away fighting against the powerful black guerilla factions. Her mother, in turn, flung herself at their African life and its rugged farm work with the same passion and maniacal energy she brought to everything else. Though she loved her children, she was no hand-holder and had little tolerance for neediness. She nurtured her daughters in other ways: She taught them, by example, to be resilient and self-sufficient, to have strong wills and strong opinions, and to embrace life wholeheartedly, despite and because of difficult circumstances. And she instilled in Bobo, particularly, a love of reading and of storytelling that proved to be her salvation. Alexandra Fuller writes poignantly about a girl becoming a woman and a writer against a backdrop of unrest, not just in her country but in her home. But Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight is more than a survivor’s story. It is the story of one woman’s unbreakable bond with a continent and the people who inhabit it, a portrait lovingly realized and deeply felt. Praise for Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight “Riveting . . . [full of] humor and compassion.”—O: The Oprah Magazine “The incredible story of an incredible childhood.”—The Providence Journal

African Childhood

New Perspectives on African Childhood by De-Valera N.Y.M. Botchway,Awo Sarpong,Charles Quist-Adade Pdf

Beyond the Boundaries of Childhood by Crystal Lynn Webster Pdf

Born a Crime by Trevor Noah Pdf

It's Trevor Noah: Born a Crime by Trevor Noah Pdf

New Perspectives on African Childhood by De-Valera NYM Botchway,Awo Sarpong,Charles Quist-Adade Pdf

Children on the Move in Africa by Elodie Razy,Marie Rodet Pdf

The Dark Child by Camara Laye Pdf

Hopeful by Asa Ahimbisibwe Pdf

Childhood in African Literature by Eldred D. Jones,Marjorie Jones Pdf

Childhood in Contemporary Diasporic African Literature by Christopher E. W. Ouma Pdf

New Directions in African Literature by Ernest Emenyo̲nu,Patricia Thornton Emenyonu,F. D. Imbuga Pdf

Childhood in Global Perspective by Karen Wells Pdf

The Condition of Young Children in Sub-Saharan Africa by Nat J. Colletta,Jayshree Balachander,Xiaoyan Liang Pdf

Childhood in a Global Perspective by Karen Wells Pdf

Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller Pdf

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