African Renaissance

Author : Washington A. Jalango Okumu
Publisher : Africa World Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1592210139

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The African Renaissance by Washington A. Jalango Okumu Pdf

An intellectual tour de force, this bold, imaginative and provocative analysis of Africa's striving for political stability and economic growth demonstrates the potential for an African Renaissance today. One of Africa's leading intellectuals, Okumu analyses new initiatives such as NEPAD and discusses their potential role in Africa's economic welfare and future, while putting forward his own practical, policy oriented programme for an African Renaissance.

Author : Peter Magubane,Sandra Klopper
Publisher : Struik Publishers
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015053538255

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African Renaissance by Peter Magubane,Sandra Klopper Pdf

The term African Renaissance, first used by liberation leaders in the early 1960's, has been revived by South Africa's new president, Thabo Mbeki, as a rallying call for the re-birth of pride and prosperity on the continent. With the flowering of democracy in South Africa, there is an awakening sense of pride in being African, in all it's dimensions. African Renaissance, from the camera of renowned photographer Peter Magubane, celebrates something of what it means to be African. His insightful eye explores not only fast-disappearing traditional cultures, but also the developing customs of modern Africa, an amalgam of the ancient and the contemporary. The guide is arranged by theme, covering subjects such as dress and adornment, rites of passage and homesteads. The section on dress and adornment examines beadwork, headgear and traditional dress, while the section on rites of passage takes a look at various initiation ceremonies, and at traditional and modern weddings.

Author : M Okediji
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2002-09-15
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015055911815

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African Renaissance by M Okediji Pdf

African Renaissance: New Forms, Old Images in Yoruba Art describes, analyzes, and interprets the historical and cultural contexts of an African art renaissance using the twentieth- and twenty-first-century transformation of ancient Yoruba artistic heritage. Juxtaposing ancient and contemporary Yoruba art, Moyo Okediji defines this art history through the lens of colonialism, an experience that served to both destroy ancient art traditions and revive Yoruba art in the twentieth century. With vivid reproductions of paintings, prints, and drawings, Okediji describes how Yoruba art has replenished and redefined itself. Okediji groups the text into several broadly overlapping periods that intricately detail the journey of Yoruba art and artists: first through oppression by European colonialism, then the attainment of Nigeria’s independence and the new nation’s subsequent military coup, and ending with present-day native Yoruban artists fleeing their homeland.

Author : Cheikh Anta Diop
Publisher : Red Sea Press(NJ)
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Africa
ISBN : STANFORD:36105070744300

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Towards the African Renaissance by Cheikh Anta Diop Pdf

Author : Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Publisher : Civitas Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009-02-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0465009468

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Something Torn and New by Ngugi wa Thiong'o Pdf

Novelist Ngugi wa Thiong'o has been a force in African literature for decades: Since the 1970s, when he gave up the English language to commit himself to writing in African languages, his foremost concern has been the critical importance of language to culture. In Something Torn and New, Ngugi explores Africa's historical, economic, and cultural fragmentation by slavery, colonialism, and globalization. Throughout this tragic history, a constant and irrepressible force was Europhonism: the replacement of native names, languages, and identities with European ones. The result was the dismemberment of African memory. Seeking to remember language in order to revitalize it, Ngugi's quest is for wholeness. Wide-ranging, erudite, and hopeful, Something Torn and New is a cri de coeur to save Africa's cultural future.

Author : Thomas Foster Earle,K. J. P. Lowe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2005-05-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0521815827

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Black Africans in Renaissance Europe by Thomas Foster Earle,K. J. P. Lowe Pdf

This highly original book opens up the almost entirely neglected area of the black African presence in Western Europe during the Renaissance. Covering history, literature, art history and anthropology, it investigates a whole range of black African experience and representation across Renaissance Europe, from various types of slavery to black musicians and dancers, from real and symbolic Africans at court to the views of the Catholic Church, and from writers of African descent to Black African criminality. Their findings demonstrate the variety and complexity of black African life in fifteenth and sixteenth-century Europe, and how it was affected by firmly held preconceptions relating to the African continent and its inhabitants, reinforced by Renaissance ideas and conditions. Of enormous importance both for European and American history, this book mixes empirical material and theoretical approaches, and addresses such issues as stereotypes, changing black African identity, and cultural representation in art and literature.

Author : Charles Villa-Vicencio,Erik Doxtader,Ebrahim Moosa
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781626161986

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The African Renaissance and the Afro-Arab Spring by Charles Villa-Vicencio,Erik Doxtader,Ebrahim Moosa Pdf

The African Renaissance and the Afro-Arab Spring addresses the often unspoken connection between the powerful call for a political-cultural renaissance that emerged with the end of South African apartheid and the popular revolts of 2011 that dramatically remade the landscape in Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia. Looking between southern and northern Africa, the transcontinental line from Cape to Cairo that for so long supported colonialism, its chapters explore the deep roots of these two decisive events and demonstrate how they are linked by shared opposition to legacies of political, economic, and cultural subjugation. As they work from African, Islamic, and Western perspectives, the book’s contributors shed important light on a continent’s difficult history and undertake a critical conversation about whether and how the desire for radical change holds the possibility of a new beginning for Africa, a beginning that may well reshape the contours of global affairs.

Author : Cheikh Anta Diop
Publisher : Red Sea Press(NJ)
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105021531582

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Towards the African Renaissance by Cheikh Anta Diop Pdf

Author : Serbin, Sylvia,Rasoanaivo-Randriamamonjy, Ravaomalala
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789231001307

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African women, Pan-Africanism and African renaissance by Serbin, Sylvia,Rasoanaivo-Randriamamonjy, Ravaomalala Pdf

Author : Fantu Cheru
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2002-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105026155973

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African Renaissance by Fantu Cheru Pdf

Cheru attempts to shed new light on the topic of economic development in Africa, looking at the practical lessons to be learned from both mistakes made and the initiatives which have born positive fruit.

Author : Malegapuru William Makgoba
Publisher : Mafube - Tafelberg
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015055118395

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African Renaissance by Malegapuru William Makgoba Pdf

Contains 30 essays based on papers and speeches delivered at the African Renaissance Conference in Johannesburg in 1998. The subject matter ranges from overviews of Africa's history to moral renewal, culture and education, political and economic transformation, science and technology, and the role of the media and telecommunications. All the contributions have one thing in common: a strong African focus and a commitment to attain prosperity for the continent in the new millennium.

Author : M Okediji
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2002-09-15
Category : Art
ISBN : UCSD:31822031335342

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African Renaissance by M Okediji Pdf

African Renaissance: New Forms, Old Images in Yoruba Art describes, analyzes, and interprets the historical and cultural contexts of an African art renaissance using the twentieth- and twenty-first-century transformation of ancient Yoruba artistic heritage. Juxtaposing ancient and contemporary Yoruba art, Moyo Okediji defines this art history through the lens of colonialism, an experience that served to both destroy ancient art traditions and revive Yoruba art in the twentieth century. With vivid reproductions of paintings, prints, and drawings, Okediji describes how Yoruba art has replenished and redefined itself. Okediji groups the text into several broadly overlapping periods that intricately detail the journey of Yoruba art and artists: first through oppression by European colonialism, then the attainment of Nigeria’s independence and the new nation’s subsequent military coup, and ending with present-day native Yoruban artists fleeing their homeland.

Author : Ezio Bassani,William Buller Fagg,Susan Mullin Vogel,Carol Thompson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Art patronage
ISBN : 0945802013

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Africa and the Renaissance by Ezio Bassani,William Buller Fagg,Susan Mullin Vogel,Carol Thompson Pdf

Author : Joshua I. Cohen
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520309685

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The Black Art Renaissance by Joshua I. Cohen Pdf

Reading African art’s impact on modernism as an international phenomenon, The “Black Art” Renaissance tracks a series of twentieth-century engagements with canonical African sculpture by European, African American, and sub-Saharan African artists and theorists. Notwithstanding its occurrence during the benighted colonial period, the Paris avant-garde “discovery” of African sculpture—known then as art nègre, or “black art”—eventually came to affect nascent Afro-modernisms, whose artists and critics commandeered visual and rhetorical uses of the same sculptural canon and the same term. Within this trajectory, “black art” evolved as a framework for asserting control over appropriative practices introduced by Europeans, and it helped forge alliances by redefining concepts of humanism, race, and civilization. From the Fauves and Picasso to the Harlem Renaissance, and from the work of South African artist Ernest Mancoba to the imagery of Negritude and the École de Dakar, African sculpture’s influence proved transcontinental in scope and significance. Through this extensively researched study, Joshua I. Cohen argues that art history’s alleged centers and margins must be conceived as interconnected and mutually informing. The “Black Art” Renaissance reveals just how much modern art has owed to African art on a global scale.

Author : Ngugi wa Thiong'o,Ngugi Thiong'o
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2009-02-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780786744190

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Something Torn and New by Ngugi wa Thiong'o,Ngugi Thiong'o Pdf

Novelist Ngugi wa Thiong’o has been a force in African literature for decades: Since the 1970s, when he gave up the English language to commit himself to writing in African languages, his foremost concern has been the critical importance of language to culture. In Something Torn and New, Ngugi explores Africa’s historical, economic, and cultural fragmentation by slavery, colonialism, and globalization. Throughout this tragic history, a constant and irrepressible force was Europhonism: the replacement of native names, languages, and identities with European ones. The result was the dismemberment of African memory. Seeking to remember language in order to revitalize it, Ngugi’s quest is for wholeness. Wide-ranging, erudite, and hopeful, Something Torn and New is a cri de coeur to save Africa’s cultural future.