African Silences

Author : Peter Matthiessen
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-25
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780307819673

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African Silences is a powerful and sobering account of the cataclysmic depredation of the African landscape and its wildlife. In this critically acclaimed work Peter Matthiessen explores new terrain on a continent he has written about in two previous books, A Tree Where Man Was Born -- nominated for the National Book Award -- and Sand Rivers. Through his eyes we see elephants, white rhinos, gorillas, and other endangered creatures of the wild. We share the drama of the journeys themselves, including a hazardous crossing of the continent in a light plane. And along the way, we learn of the human lives oppressed by bankrupt political regimes and economies, and threatened by the slow ecological catastrophe to which they have only begun to awaken.

Author : Peter Matthiessen
Publisher : Turtleback
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1992-06-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0613914066

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Examines the harsh political and economic realities that are ravaging Africa and its inhabitants, offering studies of the rare animals faced with extinction and the individuals working to preserve wild Africa

Author : Jacques Depelchin
Publisher : Mkuki Na Nyoka Pub
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2005-01
Category : History
ISBN : 997697373X

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Silences in African History by Jacques Depelchin Pdf

Among those who have suffered enslavement, colonisation, steady and relentless economic exploitation, cultural asphyxiation, religious persecution, gender, race and class discrimination, as well as political repression, silences should be seen as facts, because silences are indeed facts which have not been accorded the status of facts. So states Jacques Depelchin in this discussion, which encompasses an examination and analysis of dominant theories - political, social, economic, cultural and ideological - on Africa. He analyses in depth the influence of capitalism on the continent, in relation to various historical events through the centuries. He also castigates those whose only vision of Africa is through the eyes of colonialism, and systematically erodes misconceptions about Africa and the nature of the Black man which have taken on the status of history.

Author : Robert T. Tally Jr.
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000208047

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Spatial Literary Studies by Robert T. Tally Jr. Pdf

Following the spatial turn in the humanities and social sciences, Spatial Literary Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Space, Geography, and the Imagination offers a wide range of essays that reframe or transform contemporary criticism by focusing attention, in various ways, on the dynamic relations among space, place, and literature. These essays reflect upon the representation of space and place, whether in the real world, in imaginary universes, or in those hybrid zones where fiction meets reality. Working within or alongside related approaches, such as geocriticism, literary geography, and the spatial humanities, these essays examine the relationship between literary spatiality and different genres or media, such as film or television. The contributors to Spatial Literary Studies draw upon diverse critical and theoretical traditions in disclosing, analyzing, and exploring the significance of space, place, and mapping in literature and in the world, thus making new textual geographies and literary cartographies possible.

Author : Issa G. Shivji
Publisher : Fahamu/Pambazuka
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2007-06-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780954563752

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Silences in NGO Discourse by Issa G. Shivji Pdf

One of the most articulate critics of the destructive effects of neoliberal policies in Africa, and in particular of the ways in which they have eroded the gains of independence, Issa Shivji shows in two extensive essays in this book that the role of NGOs in Africa cannot be understood without placing them in their political and historical context. As structural adjustment programs were imposed across Africa in the 1980s and 1990s, the international financial institutions and development agencies began giving money to NGOs for programs to minimize the more glaring inequalities perpetuated by their policies. As a result, NGOs have flourished--and played an unwitting role in consolidating the neoliberal hegemony in Africa. Shivji argues that if social policy is to be determined by citizens rather than the donors, African NGOs must become catalysts for change rather than the catechists of aid that they are today.

Author : Reginald Elias Kirey
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9783111055619

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Memories of German Colonialism in Tanzania by Reginald Elias Kirey Pdf

German colonial history in today Tanzania Mainlad is extensively documented, but it has not been studied from its memory perspective despite it being widely remembered among the Tanzanians. This book documents German colonial memories as shared cultural legacy that exists in forms of monuments, archives and historical sites. It also presents them as trans-generational memory narratives that live in people's memories that are also commemorated in different ways like erection of war monuments. The book analyzes memories of colonialism from the historical perspective, showing how the collective memories like monuments and commemorations have undergone structural and institutional changes over time. The study uses Michael Rothberg's multi-directional theory, together with other theoretical approaches to analyze various forms of German colonial memories in Tanzanian context. The findings, which are analyzed historically, indicate that the collective memories of the Germans are cultural, communicative, commemorative, functional and topographical. They are also traumatic as well as nostalgic.

Author : Elena V. Baraban,Stephan Jaeger,Adam Muller
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442662643

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Fighting Words and Images by Elena V. Baraban,Stephan Jaeger,Adam Muller Pdf

Fighting Words and Images is the first comprehensive interdisciplinary and theoretical analysis of war representations across time periods from Classical Antiquity to the present day and across languages, cultures, and media including print, painting, sculpture, architecture, and photography. Featuring contributions from across the humanities and social sciences, Fighting Words and Images is organized into four thematically consistent, analytically rigourous sections that discuss ways to overcome the conceptual challenges associated with theorizing war representation. This collection creatively and insightfully explains the nature, origins, dynamics, structure, and impact of a wide variety of war representations.

Author : F. Ndi
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789956762774

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Secrets, Silences and Betrayals by F. Ndi Pdf

Secrets, Silences, and Betrayals is an invitation to readers to consider factoring in the often discarded or censored but useful information held by the dominated. The books principal claim is that the unsaid weighs in significantly on the scale of semantic construction as that which is said. Thus, it legitimates the impact of the absentee in broadening and clarifying knowledge and understanding in most disciplines. In other words, just as exogenous epistemologies have underlain and explicated the basis for understanding diverse encounterssocial, political, historical, cultural, literary, etc.Secrets, Silences, and Betrayals challenges, from a pluridisciplinary angle, such highly dominant approaches to investigating the origin, nature, ways of knowing, and limits of human knowledge. It thus yields to the deontological basis to critically reexamine our understanding of the world around us. It is in this regard that the present volume points towards the need for human history to become a cumulative record and re-recording of every human journey and endeavor in life; it brings together disparate voices illuminating topical issues that would be or have been legated to posterity as nonexistent, partial, or half-truths.

Author : United States. Department of State
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Diplomatic and consular service, American
ISBN : MINN:30000011073925

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Newsletter by United States. Department of State Pdf

Author : Dawn Thompson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0802043658

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Writing a Politics of Perception by Dawn Thompson Pdf

Looking at five novels by women writing in Canada, Thompson develops a theory of 'holographic memory, ' in which texts are performances that invite constant revision, remodelling, and interaction between narrative, memory, and, potentially, reality.

Author : Dhyana Ziegler,Molefi Kete Asante
Publisher : Africa World Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0865432511

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Thunder and Silence by Dhyana Ziegler,Molefi Kete Asante Pdf

Author : Tony Chafer,Margaret A. Majumdar
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351142144

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Routledge Handbook of Francophone Africa by Tony Chafer,Margaret A. Majumdar Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Francophone Africa brings together a multidisciplinary team of international experts to reflect on the history, politics, societies, and cultures of French-speaking parts of Africa. Consisting of approximately 35% of Africa’s territory, Francophone Africa is a shifting concept, with its roots in French and Belgian colonial rule. This handbook develops and problematizes the term, with thematic sections covering: Colonial and post-colonial ties between France and sub-Saharan Africa Belgium, Belgian colonialism and Africa The Maghreb African Francophones in France Francophone African literature and film ‘Francophone’ and ‘Anglophone’ Africa Beyond national boundaries and ‘colonial partners’ The chapters demonstrate the evolution of "Francophone Africa" into a multi-dimensional construct, with both a material and an imagined reality. Materially, it defines a regional territorial space that coexists with other conceptualisations of African space and borders. Conceptually, Francophone Africa constitutes a shared linguistic and cultural space within which collective memories are shared, not least through their connection to the French imperial imagination. Overall, the Handbook demonstrates that as global power structures and relations evolve, African agency is increasingly assertive in shaping French-African relations. Bringing this important debate together into a single volume, this Handbook will be an essential resource for students and scholars interested in Francophone Africa.

Author : Farida Karodia
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780143527732

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A Shattering of Silence by Farida Karodia Pdf

Faith's childhood is shattered when she witnesses a massacre in her village in rural Mozambique. She escapes, but loses everything - her parents, her home, her identity and her voice. A Shattering of Silence charts Faith's quest to find a place for herself in war-torn Mozambique, where she is caught between the white colonials and the local resistance. Karodia's fastmoving novel undermines traditional views of the role of women and the nature of resistance. It is a spirited response to the brutalising effects of war.

Author : Alfred Frankowski,Jeanine Ntihirageza,Chielozona Eze
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781538150016

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Critical Perspectives on African Genocide by Alfred Frankowski,Jeanine Ntihirageza,Chielozona Eze Pdf

Genocide has become a part of the contemporary global expression of political violence. After all, every continent has had its genocide, but genocide in Africa and the African diaspora is distinctly different from those in Europe or the West. This text approaches genocide from within the context of Africa and the African diaspora to examine political and philosophical after-effects of global colonialism. As genocidal state violence has become prominent through colonialism, its appearance in Europe and the West have developed sharply against how it appears in colonized spaces within the African diaspora. This text argues that such a difference in orientation is needed to develop new concepts, critical approaches, and perspectives on the intersections between colonialism, political violence, and anti-black politics as a way of critically understanding global genocide and the presence of continual genocidal violence.

Author : Roger Thompson,J. Scott Bryson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : American prose literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105026550942

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Twentieth-century American Nature Writers by Roger Thompson,J. Scott Bryson Pdf

Essays on distinctly American nature writers from the earliest to the most recent that have consistently sought to convey both their wonder at the natural world and their individual, personal experiences, within it.