Author : Paul Nugent
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Africa
ISBN : OCLC:870170022
Critical African Studies
Paul Nugent
Critical African Studies
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Critical Terms for the Study of Africa
Gaurav Desai,Adeline Masquelier
Author : Gaurav Desai,Adeline Masquelier
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226549026
Critical Terms for the Study of Africa by Gaurav Desai,Adeline Masquelier Pdf
For far too long, the Western world viewed Africa as unmappable terrain—a repository for outsiders’ wildest imaginings. This problematic notion has had lingering effects not only on popular impressions of the region but also on the development of the academic study of Africa. Critical Terms for the Study of Africa considers the legacies that have shaped our understanding of the continent and its place within the conceptual grammar of contemporary world affairs. Written by a distinguished group of scholars, the essays compiled in this volume take stock of African studies today and look toward a future beyond its fraught intellectual and political past. Each essay discusses one of our most critical terms for talking about Africa, exploring the trajectory of its development while pushing its boundaries. Editors Gaurav Desai and Adeline Masquelier balance the choice of twenty-five terms between the expected and the unexpected, calling for nothing short of a new mapping of the scholarly field. The result is an essential reference that will challenge assumptions, stimulate lively debate, and make the past, present, and future of African Studies accessible to students and teachers alike.
Facing South to Africa
Molefi Kete Asante
Author : Molefi Kete Asante
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780739196724
Facing South to Africa by Molefi Kete Asante Pdf
Facing South to Africa is a bold synthesis of the ideas that have made Afrocentric theorists the leading voices of the African renaissance. Written from the vantage point of the philosophical and political discourse that emerged over the past twenty-five years, this is a highly readable and accessible introduction to African social and cultural criticism. Molefi Kete Asante engages in the practice of critical thinking by raising fundamental questions about how Africans view themselves and the world. Tackling the themes of culture, education, social sciences, the university, politics, African unity, and the prospects for peace in Africa, Facing South to Africa is a fresh, daring, and popularizing synthesis of the best critical thought on the issues of modern knowledge. Asante’s plan is to reorient our thinking on Africa by asking questions of Africa and Africans rather than imposing preconceived, external ideas on African issues.
Branches of Asanteism
Abdul Karim Bangura
Author : Abdul Karim Bangura
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781498594998
Branches of Asanteism by Abdul Karim Bangura Pdf
Branches of Asanteism explores the epistemologies and research methodologies that have sprung from Mwalimu Molefi Kete Asante’s treatises on Afrocentricity. The book identifies and analyzes thirteen such epistemologies and methodologies while defining and explicating the various “branches” of Asante’s idea of Afrocentricity.
ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF CULTURAL HERITAGE IN AFRICA.
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367434024
ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF CULTURAL HERITAGE IN AFRICA. by Anonim Pdf
Critical Black Studies Reader
Rochelle Brock,Dara Nix-Stevenson,Paul Chamness Miller
Author : Rochelle Brock,Dara Nix-Stevenson,Paul Chamness Miller
Publisher : Black Studies and Critical Thinking
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : African American arts
ISBN : 1433124068
Critical Black Studies Reader by Rochelle Brock,Dara Nix-Stevenson,Paul Chamness Miller Pdf
The Critical Black Studies Reader is a ground-breaking volume whose aim is to criticalize and reenvision Black Studies through a critical lens. The book not only stretches the boundaries of knowledge and understanding of issues critical to the Black experience, it creates a theoretical grounding that is intersectional in its approach. Our notion of Black Studies is neither singularly grounded in African American Studies nor on traditional notions of the Black experience. Though situated work in this field has historically grappled with the question of «where are we?» in Black Studies, this volume offers the reader a type of criticalization that has not occurred to this point. While the volume includes seminal works by authors in the field, as a critical endeavor, the editors have also included pieces that address the political issues that intersect with - among others - power, race, class, gender, sexuality, religion, place, and economics.
Critical Dimensions of African Studies
Jennifer L. De Maio,Suzanne Scheld,Tom Spencer-Walters
Author : Jennifer L. De Maio,Suzanne Scheld,Tom Spencer-Walters
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781666917246
Critical Dimensions of African Studies by Jennifer L. De Maio,Suzanne Scheld,Tom Spencer-Walters Pdf
Critical Dimensions of African Studies emphasizes a critique of power structures, the promotion of human liberation, a commitment to social justice and transformation, and critical reflection on the politics of the production and circulation of knowledge of Africa.
Contemporary Critical Thought in Africology and Africana Studies
Molefi Kete Asante,Clyde Ledbetter
Author : Molefi Kete Asante,Clyde Ledbetter
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781498530712
Contemporary Critical Thought in Africology and Africana Studies by Molefi Kete Asante,Clyde Ledbetter Pdf
Although traditional academic circles rarely celebrate the work of African or African American thinkers because performers and political figures were more acceptable to narrating histories, this work projects the ideas of several writers with the confidence that Africology, the Afrocentric study of African phenomena, represents an oasis of innovation in progressive venues. The book brings together some of the most discussed theorists and intellectuals in the field of Africology (Africana Studies) for the purpose of sparking further debate, critical interpretations and extensions, and to reform and reformulate the way we approach our critical thought. The contributors' Afrocentric approach offers new interpretations and analysis, and challenges the predominant frameworks in diverse areas such as philosophy, social justice, literature, and history.
African Philosophy and Global Justice
Uchenna Okeja
Author : Uchenna Okeja
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780429657245
African Philosophy and Global Justice by Uchenna Okeja Pdf
In contemporary political philosophy, the subject of global justice has received sustained interest. This is unsurprising, given the nexus between inequality and many of the pressing global problems today, such as immigration, global public health, poverty and violence. Theorists of global justice ask why inequality is morally wrong, what we owe to the global poor, what the implications of global inequality for people in affluent countries are, and the power of agencies or institutions necessary for the realization of a fairer world. Although political philosophers have offered different conceptions of these problems and narratives of the ideal of justice, a major shortcoming of the current discussion are the limits of the concepts and idioms employed. Assumptions are made about the experience of poverty, but little is done to understand the way people in underdeveloped countries experience and understand their predicament. This has resulted in the entrenchment of cognitive inequality in the global justice debate. This book attempts to correct the inaccuracies engendered by the one-sided theorising of global justice. By employing metaphors, concepts and philosophical ideas to reflect on global justice, the book provides an account of global justice that goes beyond current parochial perspective. This book was originally published as a Special Issue of Philosophical Papers.
Research Methods in Africana Studies
Serie McDougal III
Author : Serie McDougal III
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : African American philosophy
ISBN : 143313473X
Research Methods in Africana Studies by Serie McDougal III Pdf
Research Methods in Africana Studies, Revised Edition is a major contribution to the discipline of Africana studies and social science involving people of African descent in general.
A Future for Africa
Emmanuel M. Katongole
Author : Emmanuel M. Katongole
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725238909
A Future for Africa by Emmanuel M. Katongole Pdf
Civil war, famine, genocide, AIDS--the peoples of Africa have endured horrific human tragedies. Those crises plus widespread economic, political, and social instability have combined to produce what some consider a dire and nearly hopeless situation. Even as this book was going to press, the leaders of the G-8 nations were meeting to talk about what could be done to "aid Africa" in these critical times. A careful look at history would indicate that the answer must come from within Africa and from the African people themselves, not from other nations or the economic programs and solutions they propose. The rapid rise of a Christian social ethics movement as an alternative perspective focused precisely on addressing Africa's challenges using the spiritual resources of its own people is providing a hopeful solution and a timely and powerful coping mechanism for African peoples. One of the leaders of this movement is Emmanuel Katongole, a Catholic priest from Uganda. In A Future for Africa, Katongole wrestles with concrete problems like the AIDS epidemic and widespread military conflicts, as well as fundamental, systemic ones, like poverty, corruption, and tribalism. He then offers faith-filled solutions based on the power and example of Christian community and Christian moral imagination. Katongole's radical message is that a political ethic based on Christian principles as taught in the Scriptures is the necessary foundation for healing, reconciliation, and rebuilding the continent.
African Studies in the Academy
Mawere, Munyaradzi,Mubaya, Tapuwa R.
Author : Mawere, Munyaradzi,Mubaya, Tapuwa R.
Publisher : Langaa RPCIG
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789956762224
African Studies in the Academy by Mawere, Munyaradzi,Mubaya, Tapuwa R. Pdf
For a long time, African Studies as a discipline has been spearheaded by academics and institutions in the Global North. This puts African Studies on the continent at a crossroads of making choices on whether such a discipline can be legitimately accepted as an epistemological discipline seeking objectivity and truth about Africa and the African peoples or a discipline meant to perpetuate the North’s hegemonic socio-economic, political and epistemic control over Africa. The compound question that immediately arises is: Who should produce what and which space should African Studies occupy in the academy both of the North and of the South? Confronted by such a question, one wonders whether the existence of African Studies Centres in the Global North academies open opportunities for critical thinking on Africa or it opens possibilities for the emergence of the same discipline in Africa as a fertile space for trans-disciplinary debate. While approaches critical for the development of African Studies are pervasive in African universities through fields such as cultural studies, social anthropology, history, sociology, indigenous knowledge studies and African philosophy, the discipline of African Studies though critical to Africa is rarely practiced as such in the African academy and its future on the continent remains bleak. African Studies in the Academy is a testimony that if honestly and objectively practiced, the crossroads position of African Studies as a discipline makes it a fertile ground for generating and testing new approaches critical for researching and understanding Africa. It also challenges Africa to seriously consider assuming its legitimate position to champion African Studies from within. These issues are at the heart of the present volume.
Education of African Canadian Children
Awad Ibrahim,Ali A. Abdi
Author : Awad Ibrahim,Ali A. Abdi
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780773548459
Education of African Canadian Children by Awad Ibrahim,Ali A. Abdi Pdf
Hundreds of thousands of African Canadian children demand and deserve quality education that promotes success both within and outside of school. Recognizing that the education these young people receive will shape their lives as citizens, the contributors to this volume provide an important, timely analysis of the educational experiences of African Canadian children and youth. With contributions from leading and emerging scholars, The Education of African Canadian Children critically responds to and comments on the historical, cultural, institutional, and informational contexts and problems of the learning lives of these children. The authors offer a comprehensive history of African Canadians’ encounters with the education system, the current challenges they are facing, and opportunities for more inclusive and democratic educational practices that will better serve this population. Advocating for cultural redemption and learning success for a population that is not being served well by Canadian public education systems, this book will benefit teachers, students, government program managers, policy makers, and educational researchers. The first multi-authored work of its kind, The Education of African Canadian Children opens new debates and possibilities for change for those concerned with education in their communities and their country.
Critical management studies in the South African context
Geoff A. Goldman,C.W. Callaghan,Gregory John Lee,Nthabiseng V. Moraka,Hester Nienaber,Shaun Ruggunan,Whitey (Tjaart Nicholaas) van der Linde
Author : Geoff A. Goldman,C.W. Callaghan,Gregory John Lee,Nthabiseng V. Moraka,Hester Nienaber,Shaun Ruggunan,Whitey (Tjaart Nicholaas) van der Linde
Publisher : AOSIS
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781928396123
Critical management studies in the South African context by Geoff A. Goldman,C.W. Callaghan,Gregory John Lee,Nthabiseng V. Moraka,Hester Nienaber,Shaun Ruggunan,Whitey (Tjaart Nicholaas) van der Linde Pdf
The purpose of this book is to establish the first formalised scholarly work on critical management studies (CMS) in the South African context. The book is a collection of seven chapters, six of which employ a conceptual methodology and one of which follows an interpretive paradigm employing qualitative methods of inquiry. CMS is a relatively young school of thought, arising in the early 1990s and still very much a peripheral movement within the academic discipline of management. South Africa has very little scholarship on CMS as precious few scholars work in this space. Furthermore, publication opportunities are virtually non-existent as CMS is virtually unknown in the South African community of management scholars. Thus, this book represents the first academic work on CMS published in South Africa, written and reviewed by scholars who are familiar with the field. The primary target readership would be management academics, but it could also be a useful reference for postgraduate students in management.
The New Black Renaissance
Peter I. Rose,Khary Jones
Author : Peter I. Rose,Khary Jones
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 159451142X
The New Black Renaissance by Peter I. Rose,Khary Jones Pdf
Argues for a more radical and critical approach to Black Studies.