Awakening African Women

Author : Ginette Curry
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : African literature
ISBN : 9781904303343

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The book is a comparative analysis of recent films by African male and female filmmakers and literary works by female African authors from Senegal, Mali, the Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Togo and Burkina Faso. The films are Finzan (Cheikh Oumar Sissoko, 1990), Women with Open Eyes (Anne-Laure Folly, 1994), and Faces of Women (Desire Ecare, 1985). In addition, the manuscript includes the study of Women are Different (Flora Nwapa, 1986), Double Yoke (Buchi Emecheta, 1983) and So Long a Letter (Mariama Ba, 1980). Curry analyzes the homogeneous themes such as oppression, sabotage, cultural alienation, exploitation, sexual bargaining and the changing dynamics of sexual relationships that appear through these productions. She concludes that African women continue to undergo a metamorphosis. This transformation is the result of a blend of traditionally African and European influences.Modernist terms such as â oefeminismâ and â oewomanismâ intended to capture the emerging African women as subjects and not objects of study, are avoided. In so doing, a theoretical approach is used, based on the authorâ (TM)s own experiences in West Africa. Then, building from that premise, Curry analyzes the novels and films within this context to either prove or disprove her theories. Enthusiasts without past experiences in the area of African literature and African films, and also students and scholars in African studies, specifically in comparative literature, anthropology, womenâ (TM)s studies, sociology, African history, film studies and social studies, will all find this book of great interest. In raising the issues that West African women face, this book, as the title suggests, aims to awaken other African women and indeed a western readership to the fast changing lives of women in Africa. Georgina Holmes in African Research and Documentation No. 102, 2007

Author : Sokari Ekine,Firoze Manji
Publisher : Fahamu/Pambazuka
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857490216

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African Awakening by Sokari Ekine,Firoze Manji Pdf

Annotation. The tumultuous uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya have seized the attention of media, but what about the rest of Africa? This text presents the 2011 uprisings in their African context.

Author : Awadzi, Kezia Dzifa
Publisher : Afram Publications (Ghana)
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789964705701

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African Girl: The Awakening by Awadzi, Kezia Dzifa Pdf

Dzigbordi Dzordzome, a young woman from a strict Ghanaian home, struggles between the desire to forge her own identity, please her parent, and marry her college sweetheart Maxwell Owusu. Dzigbordi eventually leaves for the US, where she has to adjust to the realities of a culture she has imagined from books and movies. Her friendships and experiences in the US inevitably affect her relationships back in Ghana, and change her perceptions of herself and her homeland.

Author : LaJuan Simpson-Wilkey,Sheila Smith McKoy,Eric M. Bridges
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781793640949

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Recovering the African Feminine Divine in Literature, the Arts, and Practice by LaJuan Simpson-Wilkey,Sheila Smith McKoy,Eric M. Bridges Pdf

Recovering the African Feminine Divine in Literature, the Arts, and Performing Arts: Yemonja Awakening provides context to the myriad ways in which the African feminine divine is being reclaimed by scholars, practitioners and cultural scholars worldwide. This volume addresses the complex ways in which the reclamation of and recognition of Yemonja facilitates cultural survival and the formation of African -centric identity. These cultural practices are symbolically represented by Yemonja, the African female deity who is the mother of the entire world of the Orisha. Also known as Yemaya, Iemanya and Yemaya-Olokun, Yemonja is the deity whose province is the ocean and, given that the Middle Passage was the cultural and spatial crossroad to Africa’s numerous diasporas, this deity links the shared histories of African and African –descent cultural praxis worldwide. Since Yemonja also references sexual, creative, spatial and spiritual energies, the editors and contributors see her as pivotal to this project as an expansive and original cartography of impact of the African feminine divine globally. This work provides the context for understanding how the spiritual conceptualizations of the African feminine divine underpin critical cultural forms, even when it has been previously unacknowledged and despite the cultural encounters with European and Western models of being. Scholars of African diaspora studies and the arts will find this book particularly interesting.

Author : Michael L. Morris,Hans P. Binswanger-Mikhize,Derek Byerlee
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821379424

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Awakening Africa's Sleeping Giant by Michael L. Morris,Hans P. Binswanger-Mikhize,Derek Byerlee Pdf

Awakening Africa's Sleeping Giant' explores the feasibility of restoring international competitiveness and growth in African agriculture through the identification of products and production systems that can underpin rapid development of a competitive commercial agriculture. Based on a careful examination of the factors that contributed to the successes achieved in Brazil and Thailand, as well as comparative analysis of evidence obtained through detailed case studies of three African countries--Mozambique, Nigeria, and Zambia--the authors argue that opportunities abound for farmers in Africa to.

Author : Molara Ogundipe-Leslie
Publisher : Africa World Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 0865434123

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Re-creating Ourselves by Molara Ogundipe-Leslie Pdf

This book falls into two parts: the first part, theory, comprising theoretical essays on literature, women and society, leads into the second part, practice, which presents Ogundipe-Leslie's work as a social activist. Both parts are linked by her poetry.

Author : Carmel Foster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1951630963

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The Awakening by Carmel Foster Pdf

Author : Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Feminism
ISBN : UCSC:32106017915585

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African Women and Feminism by Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí Pdf

Author : Navi'yah Baht Tzadoq
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1522979638

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Rize of the Ezer Kenegdo by Navi'yah Baht Tzadoq Pdf

Moriyah was looking for a righteous husband to lead her to the ways of the Creator. What she did not anticipate is that her obssession with finding this husband would lead her down a path of destruction and despair. As she struggles to regain her own identity and self-worth, she discovered something way more valuable...she discovered the Divine Feminine. Take a trip with Moriyah on her journey in defining key divine principles of love, unity, and balance. Understand the unique plan that the Creator has for the woman and her role in the restoration of the black nation. Learn how to love, protect, and heal yourself so that you can bring the same love, protection, and healing to the nation. It is time for the women of Yah to reconnect with the Creator. It is time for the women of Yah to rediscover their roots. It is time for the women of Yah to Rise up, and take their rightful positions next to the Kings and Priests of this nation. It is time for the Rize of the Ezer Kenegdo!

Author : Nwando Achebe,Claire Robertson
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299321109

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Holding the World Together by Nwando Achebe,Claire Robertson Pdf

Featuring contributions from some of the most accomplished scholars on the topic, Holding the World Together explores the rich and varied ways in which women have wielded power across the African continent, from the precolonial period to the present. Suitable for classroom use, this comprehensive volume considers such topics as the representation of African women, their role in national liberation movements, their experiences of religious fundamentalism (both Christian and Muslim), their incorporation into the world economy, changing family and marriage systems, impacts of the world economy on their lives and livelihoods, and the unique challenges they face in the areas of health and disease. Contributors: Nwando Achebe, Ousseina Alidou, Signe Arnfred, Andrea L. Arrington-Sirois, Henryatta Ballah, Teresa Barnes, Josephine Beoku-Betts, Emily Burril, Abena P. A. Busia, Gracia Clark, Alicia Decker, Karen Flint, December Green, Cajetan Iheka, Rachel Jean-Baptiste, Elizabeth M. Perego, Claire Robertson, Kathleen Sheldon, Aili Mari Tripp, Cassandra Veney

Author : Basil Davidson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Africa, Central
ISBN : UCSC:32106000501574

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The African Awakening by Basil Davidson Pdf

Author : Patricia W. Romero
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1390790138

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Life Histories of African Women by Patricia W. Romero Pdf

Author : Sharon Caulder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Vodou
ISBN : 0738701831

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Mark of Voodoo by Sharon Caulder Pdf

Caulder writes of the links between her heritage, her spirituality and the practices of Voodoo and Shamanism. color photos.

Author : Kathleen Sheldon
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253027313

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African Women by Kathleen Sheldon Pdf

African women's history is a topic as vast as the continent itself, embracing an array of societies in over fifty countries with different geographies, social customs, religions, and historical situations. In African Women: Early History to the 21st Century, Kathleen Sheldon masterfully delivers a comprehensive study of this expansive story from before the time of records to the present day. She provides rich background on descent systems and the roles of women in matrilineal and patrilineal systems. Sheldon's work profiles elite women, as well as those in leadership roles, traders and market women, religious women, slave women, women in resistance movements, and women in politics and development. The rich case studies and biographies in this thorough survey establish a grand narrative about women's roles in the history of Africa.

Author : Tererai Trent
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781501145681

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The Awakened Woman by Tererai Trent Pdf

Winner of a 2017 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, this moving manifesto “empowers women to access a fearlessness that will enable community progress” (Essence). Through one incredible woman’s journey from a small Zimbabwe village to becoming one of the world’s most recognizable voices in women’s empowerment and education, this book “can help any woman achieve her full potential” (Kirkus Reviews). Before Tererai Trent landed on Oprah’s stage as her “favorite guest of all time,” she was a woman with a forgotten dream. As a young girl in a cattle-herding village in Zimbabwe, she dreamed of receiving an education but instead was married young and by eighteen, without a high school graduation, she was already a mother of three. Tererai encountered a visiting American woman who assured her that anything was possible, reawakening her sacred dream. Tererai planted her dreams deep in the earth and prayed they would grow. They did, and now not only has she earned her PhD but she has also built schools for girls in Zimbabwe, with funding from Oprah. The Awakened Woman: A Guide for Remembering & Igniting Your Sacred Dreams is her accessible, intimate, and evocative guide that teaches nine essential lessons to encourage all women to reexamine their dreams and uncover the power hidden within them—power that can recreate our world for the better. Tererai points out that there is a massive, untapped, global resource in women who have, for one reason or another, set aside their wisdom, their skills, and their dreams in order to take care of the personal business of their lives. Not only is this a type of invisible suffering experienced by countless women, this rich resource is a secret weapon for improving our world. Women have the capacity to inspire, to create, to transform—and Tererai’s call to action “shines as a beacon of hope to women everywhere” (Danica McKellar, actress and New York Times bestselling author).