African Humanity

Author : Abimbola Asojo,Toyin Falola
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Africa
ISBN : 1531017568

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"African Humanity: Creativity, Identity and Personhood is a collection of thought-provoking essays from scholars around the world on topics that inform new ways of thinking while engaging critical perspectives about Africa and the African Diaspora. The essays focus on the discourse of creativity, culture, identity and well-being from multiple fields such as design, art, gender studies, education, health and museum studies in pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial Africa and the African Diaspora. This multidisciplinary group of global scholars offer a critical dialogue on topics such as the creative process in Africa and the African Diaspora; gender and creative space; histories of creativity and inventions; globalized modernity and its consequence on cultural performances; politics of creativity; creativity, performance and Nollywood; social, political, and economic ramifications of creativity and design; ethical issues in creativity; and sustainability, well-being and the environment. The book's goal is to offer a comparative critical dialogue for a multidisciplinary academic audience, artists, grassroots activists, diverse communities and interested members of the general public. It has five distinct sections: Gender, Education, and Language; Design and Art in Africa and Its Diaspora; Creativity, Performance and Nollywood; Identity and Institutions of Politics and Living; and Sustainability, Health and the Environment. This book is part of the African World Series, edited by Toyin Falola, Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities, University of Texas at Austin"--

Author : Bonny Ibhawoh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107016316

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Human Rights in Africa by Bonny Ibhawoh Pdf

An interpretative history of human rights in Africa, exploring indigenous rights traditions, anti-slavery, anti-colonialism, post-colonial violations and pro-democracy movements.

Author : Mark Maslin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780198704522

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The Cradle of Humanity by Mark Maslin Pdf

POPULAR SCIENCE. Humans are rather weak when compared with many other animals. We are not particular fast and have no natural weapons. Yet Homo sapiens currently number nearly 7.5 billion and are set to rise to nearly 10 billion by the middle of this century. We have influenced almost every part of the Earth system and as a consequence are changing the global environmental and evolutionary trajectory of the Earth. So how did we become the worlds apex predator and take over the planet? Fundamental to our success is our intelligence, not only individually but more importantly collectively. But why did evolution favour the brainy ape? Given the calorific cost of running our large brains, not to mention the difficulties posed for childbirth, this bizarre adaptation must have given our ancestors a considerable advantage.

Author : Chris Stringer,Robin McKie
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781627797498

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African Exodus by Chris Stringer,Robin McKie Pdf

A Choice Outstanding Academic Book A Library Journal Best Sci-Tech Book A New York Times Notable Book Once in a generation a book such as African Exodus emerges to transform the way we see ourselves. This landmark book, which argues that our genes betray the secret of a single racial stock shared by all of modern humanity, has set off one of the most bitter debates in contemporary science. "We emerged out of Africa," the authors cont, "less than 100,000 years ago and replaced all other human populations." Employing persuasive fossil and genetic evidence (the proof is in the blood, not just the bones) and an exceptionally readable style, Stringer and McKie challenge long-held beliefs that suggest we evolved separately as different races with genetic roots reaching back two million years.

Author : Arianna Huhn
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-10
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781789208900

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Nourishing Life by Arianna Huhn Pdf

In this accessible ethnography of a small town in northern Mozambique, everyday cultural knowledge and behaviors about food, cooking, and eating reveal the deeply human pursuit of a nourishing life. This emerges less through the consumption of specific nutrients than it does in the affective experience of alimentation in contexts that support vitality, compassion, and generative relations. Embedded within central themes in the study of Africa south of the Sahara, the volume combines insights from philosophy and food studies to find textured layers of meaning in a seemingly simple cuisine.

Author : Toyin Falola,Nic Hamel
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781580469715

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Disability in Africa by Toyin Falola,Nic Hamel Pdf

Exploring issues of disability culture, activism, and policy across the African continent, this volume argues for the recognition of African disability studies as an important and emerging interdisciplinary field.

Author : Abimbola Asojo,Toyin Falola
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Africa
ISBN : 1531017576

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African Humanity by Abimbola Asojo,Toyin Falola Pdf

"African Humanity: Creativity, Identity and Personhood is a collection of thought-provoking essays from scholars around the world on topics that inform new ways of thinking while engaging critical perspectives about Africa and the African Diaspora. The essays focus on the discourse of creativity, culture, identity and well-being from multiple fields such as design, art, gender studies, education, health and museum studies in pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial Africa and the African Diaspora. This multidisciplinary group of global scholars offer a critical dialogue on topics such as the creative process in Africa and the African Diaspora; gender and creative space; histories of creativity and inventions; globalized modernity and its consequence on cultural performances; politics of creativity; creativity, performance and Nollywood; social, political, and economic ramifications of creativity and design; ethical issues in creativity; and sustainability, well-being and the environment. The book's goal is to offer a comparative critical dialogue for a multidisciplinary academic audience, artists, grassroots activists, diverse communities and interested members of the general public. It has five distinct sections: Gender, Education, and Language; Design and Art in Africa and Its Diaspora; Creativity, Performance and Nollywood; Identity and Institutions of Politics and Living; and Sustainability, Health and the Environment. This book is part of the African World Series, edited by Toyin Falola, Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities, University of Texas at Austin"--

Author : Helen Lauer,Kofi Anyidoho
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 946 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Africa
ISBN : 9789988647339

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Reclaiming the Human Sciences and Humanities Through African Perspectives by Helen Lauer,Kofi Anyidoho Pdf

This compilation was inspired by an international symposium held on the Legon campus in September 2003. Hosted by the CODESRIA African Humanities Institute Programme, the symposium had the theme 'Canonical Works and Continuing Innovation in African Arts & Humanities'.

Author : Revd. Dr. Robinson A. Milwood
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781469150277

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African Humanity by Revd. Dr. Robinson A. Milwood Pdf

My thesis is basically intended for theological and philosophical students and at the same-time their lecturers in biblical theology, systematic theology and philosophy of religion. There is no doubt in my mind that these disciplines must surgically forcefully put through the hermeneutical operation of radicalism and liberation black theology and black studies. Because liberation black theology and black studies are both pertinent and existential to black people not only in the diaspora but principally within the demography of Africa. Why? Because Africa is the social, economic, political, scientific, spiritual, theological and psychological incubation chamber with the legacies of the transatlantic slave trade, colonialism and semantic cultural Christianization of Africans. The besom merchants, traders, planters, slavers, missionaries, philosophers, historians, theologians and scientists, with savagery and brutality imposed on African slaves mendaciously that enslavement was good for Africans. It is therefore apposite for liberation black theology and black studies particularly in praxis to critique and challenge the systems and endogenous forces that violated and emasculated Africans empowerment and humanity. The slaves were brutally transformed physically and psychologically. The slaves potentialities endowed with the imprint of the African traditional belief in a supreme being and prime mover of the cosmos was transgressed with falsehood that their belief in a supreme being was primitive and paganistic. For Africans the supreme being is within their inner consciousness. The enslavement of Africans was without morality and justice. The creation of a symbiosis of liberation theology, liberation black theology and hermeneutical application and praxis is sempiternal significance to the black experience and the Jesus of the black experience that gives timba to the dis-empowered blacks of the streets of Accra and the continent of Africa that were consciously made into the apocalyptic and eschatological symbol of poverty, dis-possessed, impuissant politically and economically in a world that is dominated with nuclear weapons and technological hegemony. In the midst of such imbalance and the perversion of justice and equality regardless of ethnicity, black people must make the conscious, spiritual and psychological connection with the Jesus of the stigmata of the imprisoned African slaves on the Middle Passage and the diabolical plantations. There is no another way according to the sociological, theological, psychological impacting force of the various violations of Africans dignity, liberty, freedom, equality and humanity of black people in all dimensions of struggles to become veridical human beings in the full image of God. That is to say, theologically and sociologically the derivatives of shalom culminating in the absolute restoration of black humanity. With the force of chimerical-ism twinned with the black mans epistemological dreams without empiricism and existentialism. It is at this juncture that all the mythological aspirations are reduced to the level of stultification because Christianity with the painting of a white plastic Jesus cannot be connected with the black experience. When on Good Friday black people sing with effusive passion Jesus keep me near the Cross the Kebuka and Maafa on the plantation sufferings, brutalization and de-humanization rings with

Author : Melissa Steyn,William Mpofu
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781776146536

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Decolonising the Human by Melissa Steyn,William Mpofu Pdf

Decolonising the Human examines the ongoing project of constituting ‘the human’ in light of the durability of coloniality and the persistence of multiple oppressions The ‘human’ emerges as a deeply political category, historically constructed as a scarce existential resource. Once weaponised, it allows for the social, political and economic elevation of those who are centred within its magic circle, and the degradation, marginalisation and immiseration of those excluded as the different and inferior Other, the less than human. Speaking from Africa, a key site where the category of the human has been used throughout European modernity to control, exclude and deny equality of being, the contributors use decoloniality as a potent theoretical and philosophical tool, gesturing towards a liberated, pluriversal world where human difference will be recognised as a gift, not used to police the boundaries of the human. Here is a transdisciplinary critical exploration of a wide range of subjects, including history, politics, philosophy, sociology, anthropology and decolonial studies.

Author : New York African Studies Association. Conference
Publisher : Global Academic Publishing
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 158684220X

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The Africana Human Condition and Global Dimensions by New York African Studies Association. Conference Pdf

Author : Dennis D. Cordell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442213838

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The Human Tradition in Modern Africa by Dennis D. Cordell Pdf

This rich collection of biographies of African men and women adds a crucial human dimension to our understanding of African history since 1800. The last two centuries have been a time of enormous change on the continent, and these life stories show how people survived by resisting European conquest and colonial rule, by collaborating with colonial powers, or by finding a middle way to live their lives through tumultuous times. Bringing the story to the present, the book traces the era of independence since the 1960s through challenges to the rule of African dictators, struggles for the rights of women and mothers, the exploitation of youth and child soldiers, and economic booms and busts. By recounting the lives of real, identifiable people from societies across Africa south of the Sahara and from African communities in Europe, this unique book underscores the importance and power of individual agency in understanding the recent African past, a vital complement to analyses of broader, impersonal social and economic factors. Contributions by: Agnès Adjamagbo, Maryan Muuse Boqor, Dennis D. Cordell, José C. Curto, Mamadou Diouf, Andreas Eckert, Laura Fair, Tovin Falola, Doug Henry, Lidwien Kapteijns, Issiaka Mandé, Cora Ann Presley, Carolyn F. Sargent, Pamela Scully, Ibrahim Sundiata, and Marcia Wright.

Author : Sally C. Reynolds,Andrew Gallagher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 599 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781107019959

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African Genesis by Sally C. Reynolds,Andrew Gallagher Pdf

This book reviews key themes and developments in palaeoanthropology, exploring their impact on our understanding of human origins in Africa.

Author : Issa G. Shivji
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781870784023

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The Concept of Human Rights in Africa by Issa G. Shivji Pdf

1 The dominant discourse

Author : I. T. K. Egonu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 583 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Africa
ISBN : 9782835013

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Readings in African Humanities by I. T. K. Egonu Pdf