Author : Kwame Gyekye
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Africa
ISBN : UOM:39015054302164
African Cultural Values
Kwame Gyekye
African Cultural Values
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Introduction to African Culture
Alfâ Ibrâhîm Sow
Author : Alfâ Ibrâhîm Sow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : History
ISBN : 9231014781
Introduction to African Culture by Alfâ Ibrâhîm Sow Pdf
An introductionto African culture - its literatures, arts,and values.
African Cultural Values
Kwame Gyekye
Author : Kwame Gyekye
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Africa
ISBN : 0965047016
African Cultural Values by Kwame Gyekye Pdf
African Cultural Personalities in a World of Change
Ikechukwu Anthony Kanu,Ejikemeuwa J. O. Ndubisi,Kanayo Nwadialor
Author : Ikechukwu Anthony Kanu,Ejikemeuwa J. O. Ndubisi,Kanayo Nwadialor
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781546296676
African Cultural Personalities in a World of Change by Ikechukwu Anthony Kanu,Ejikemeuwa J. O. Ndubisi,Kanayo Nwadialor Pdf
This notwithstanding, over the years, the African culture in all its manifestations became the bulls eye for attack especially during the Atlantic Slave Trade, Colonialism, Racism. During these periods, Europe dealt coup de grace to the African personality, to his is-ness, by destroying the African cultural values. They disrespected African peculiarities, languages enriched with traditions of centuries, parables, many of them the quintessence of family and national histories; modes of thought, influenced more or less by local circumstances, local poetry which reveals the profundity of African literary wizardry. A lot of these were altered against the background that the African in all his susceptibilities is an inferior race and that it is needful to give him a foreign model beacon to emulate and follow. In our time of globalization, bringing about a new sweep of changes on the African cultural values, a more careful, historically grounded interpretation of the cultural changes occurring on the continent is, therefore, needed and for it to be useful, it should enable us to transcend the narrow and narrowing parameters that currently dominate the discourse on the processes and structures of change occurring in contemporary Africa. This piece is a great accomplishment by African scholars to do a grounded hermeneutics of the structures of changes taking place in Africa. The different chapters are the fruits of the 2018 International Conference of the Association for the Promotion of African Studies (APAS). The authors, like artists, combine originality with insightful imagination. They have carefully treated the historical, conceptual, basic and substantive issues in cultural change in Africa. Their coherent, systematic and encyclopedic approaches have the capacity to expand the intellectual and professional horizon of its readers.
Africa's Soft Power
Oluwaseun Tella
Author : Oluwaseun Tella
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000402247
Africa's Soft Power by Oluwaseun Tella Pdf
This book investigates the ways in which soft power is used by African countries to help drive global influence. Selecting four of the countries most associated with soft power across the continent, this book delves into the currencies of soft power across the region: from South Africa’s progressive constitution and expanding multinational corporations, to Nigeria’s Nollywood film industry and Technical Aid Corps (TAC) scheme, Kenya’s sport diplomacy, fashion and tourism industries, and finally Egypt’s Pan-Arabism and its reputation as the cradle of civilisation. The book asks how soft power is wielded by these countries and what constraints and contradictions they encounter. Understandings of soft power have typically been driven by Western scholars, but throughout this book, Oluwaseun Tella aims to Africanise our understanding of soft power, drawing on prominent African philosophies, including Nigeria’s Omolúwàbí, South Africa’s Ubuntu, Kenya’s Harambee, and Egypt’s Pharaonism. This book will be of interest to researchers from across political science, international relations, cultural studies, foreign policy and African Studies. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/ 9781003176022, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license
African Cultural Values From The Ohuhu Clan Of The Igbo Race
Nwabuisi Iroaga
Author : Nwabuisi Iroaga
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1329107217
African Cultural Values From The Ohuhu Clan Of The Igbo Race by Nwabuisi Iroaga Pdf
This book describes the village structure, moral values etc of the Ohuhu Clan of the Igbo race of Nigeria.
African Cultural Knowledge
Michael C. Kirwen
Author : Michael C. Kirwen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Africa
ISBN : IND:30000107653978
African Cultural Knowledge by Michael C. Kirwen Pdf
"Based on field research data collected and analyzed over the past seventeen years, the Maryknoll Institute of African Studies has categorized cultural knowledge into fifteen themes and thirty-five domains. The themes are the major values, symbols and ideas that bring wholeness and coherence to a culture. The themes explain the nature of life, the nature of creation, the nature of evil, etc. Underneath and within these themes are thirty-five cultural domains, that is, specific activities, rituals, attitudes and happenings that make up the ordinary events in the lives of human beings, from birth to death and beyond ... The book is divided into fifteen chapters, one for each foundational theme"--Intro., p. [1].
Globalization Vs African Cultural Values
Onyeka-Joe Amaegwu
Author : Onyeka-Joe Amaegwu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Africa
ISBN : OCLC:1165612316
Globalization Vs African Cultural Values by Onyeka-Joe Amaegwu Pdf
Introduction to African Religion
John S. Mbiti
Author : John S. Mbiti
Publisher : Waveland Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781478628927
Introduction to African Religion by John S. Mbiti Pdf
In his widely acclaimed survey, John Mbiti sheds light on the survival and prosperity of African Religion in different historical, geographical, sociological, cultural, and physical environments. He presents a constellation of African worldviews, beliefs in God, use of symbols, valued traditions, and practices that have taken root with African peoples throughout the vast continent. Mbiti’s accessible writing style sympathetically portrays how African Religion manifests itself in ritual, festival, healing, the human life cycle, and interplay with the mystical and invisible world. The account embraces foundational traditions, while touching on elements that spawn transitions, including migration, the spread of Christianity and Islam, political-economic development, and modern communication. This popular introduction leaves readers with informed knowledge of the riches of African heritage.
Reimagining the African American Family Through African Cultural Values and Structures
Uche Lynn-Teresa Ugwueze
Author : Uche Lynn-Teresa Ugwueze
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : African American families
ISBN : 1491848634
Reimagining the African American Family Through African Cultural Values and Structures by Uche Lynn-Teresa Ugwueze Pdf
Herbert Hoover, the 31st U.S. president once said "children are our most valuable resource." Similarly, Nelson Mandela, former president of South Africa underscores the need for a society to place the needs of its children at the highest rung of its priority. He argued that "there can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children." In the same vein, children are inducted into the processes of society through the family. The family is, therefore, the most foundational institution; the center of the human society. When the family contains all standards and regularity of completeness, it is a pulsating structure that recreates and reproduces life. Strong families guarantee strong communities bound together by cultural principles, interpersonal bonds, shared history, interests and goals. Strong families transmit shared knowledge which enables the community to reproduce and sustain itself through its own children. Therefore, for a social group to exist through time it has to strengthen its concept of family. Furthermore, every society aims to inculcate social abilities and competencies that are essential for preparing young people for full responsibility in that society. The idea is to nurture, socialize and prepare them for the tasks ahead. Sensible people socialize their children using stories that carry their cultural values and historical memories. They seek to reproduce themselves in their children. They want their children to stand on their shoulders and be able to see beyond the horizons that they themselves were not able to see. They seek to pass on the button of social responsibility, continuity and dignity to their children, their future, in order to ensure that their humanity thrives forever. Reimagining the African American Family through African Cultural Values and Structures reengages and redefines modern day conversations about the family. It is a search for principles, models, examples from African culture that may be used in the reconstruction and restoration of African and African American families.
African Values, Ethics, and Technology
Beatrice Dedaa Okyere-Manu
Author : Beatrice Dedaa Okyere-Manu
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030705503
African Values, Ethics, and Technology by Beatrice Dedaa Okyere-Manu Pdf
This book charts technological developments from an African ethical perspective. It explores the idea that while certain technologies have benefited Africans, the fact that these technologies were designed and produced in and for a different setting leads to conflicts with African ethical values. Written in a simple and engaging style, the authors apply an African ethical lens to themes such as: The Fourth Industrial Revolution, the moral status of technology, technology and sexual relations, and bioethics and technology.
Africans and Americans: Embracing Cultural Differences
Joseph Mbele
Author : Joseph Mbele
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781411623415
Africans and Americans: Embracing Cultural Differences by Joseph Mbele Pdf
This book discusses differences between African and American culture, to help prevent cultural miscommunications which might poison or ruin relationships between Africans and Americans. I am lucky to have lived in both Africa and America, and I feel priviledged and obliged to share my views and experiences with others.
African Cultural Development
Ogbu Kalu
Author : Ogbu Kalu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Africa
ISBN : UVA:X000461296
African Cultural Development by Ogbu Kalu Pdf
Human Rights in Africa
Abdullahi Ahmed An-naim,Francis M. Deng
Author : Abdullahi Ahmed An-naim,Francis M. Deng
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0815715633
Human Rights in Africa by Abdullahi Ahmed An-naim,Francis M. Deng Pdf
This powerful volume challenges the conventional view that the concept of human rights is peculiar to the West and, therefore, inherently alien to the non-Western traditions of third world countries. This book demonstrates that there is a contextual legitimacy for the concept of human rights. Virginia A. Leary and Jack Donnelly discuss the Western cultural origins of international human rights; David Little, Bassam Tibi, and Ann Elizabeth Mayer explore Christian and Islamic perspectives on human rights; Rhoda E. Howard, Claude E. Welch, Jr., and James C. N. Paul examine human rights in the context of the African nation-state; Kwasi Wiredu, James Silk, and Francis M. Deng offer African cultural perspectives; and Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im and Richard D. Schwartz discuss prospects for a cross-cultural approach to human rights.
Communication and Culture
S. T. Kwame Boafo
Author : S. T. Kwame Boafo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Communication and culture
ISBN : STANFORD:36105043420699