Designing West Africa

Author : P. Schwab
Publisher : Springer
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2004-07-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781403978769

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Designing West Africa by P. Schwab Pdf

Many African nations are now described as 'fourth world nations', ones which essentially have no future. How could this have happened? Through the scope of the 1960's, the first decade of African independence, Peter Schwab presents a compelling and provocative answer to this question. Designing West Africa tells the story of a pivotal decade in African history, when the fate of the continent was decided. Focusing on the six most visible leaders of the period - painting detailed portraits of them both as leaders and as people - Schwab looks at how Africa served as a ground to play out larger international conflicts, namely the Cold War. He does not fall back on blaming non-African involvement for the failure to build a visible leadership for the continent; rather he critiques the African leaders themselves for their individual failings.

Author : Alisa LaGamma,Christine Giuntini,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Textile fabrics
ISBN : 9781588392930

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The Essential Art of African Textiles by Alisa LaGamma,Christine Giuntini,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) Pdf

Author : Sharne Algotsson,Denys Davis
Publisher : Clarkson Potter Publishers
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015037847970

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The Spirit of African Design by Sharne Algotsson,Denys Davis Pdf

African design encompasses colours, textures, patterns, styles and traditions varied enough to fuel a range of dazzling home decorating looks. Detailed captions identify the design elements in each photograph, offering readers ideas for their own home

Author : Geoffrey Williams
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1971-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780486227528

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African Designs from Traditional Sources by Geoffrey Williams Pdf

Black-and-white linocut prints of geometric and abstract motifs, textual patterns, masks, and mythical figures provide a pictorial presentation of African designs

Author : Łukasz Stanek
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-14
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780691168708

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Architecture in Global Socialism by Łukasz Stanek Pdf

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Introduction Worldmaking of Architecture -- Chapter 2 A Global Development Path Accra, 1957-66 -- Chapter 3 Worlding Eastern Europe Lagos, 1966-79 -- Chapter 4 The World Socialist System Baghdad, 1958-90 -- Chapter 5 Socialism within Globalization Abu Dhabi and Kuwait City, 1979-90 -- Epilogue and Outlook -- A Note on Sources -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Image Credits.

Author : James Morris,Suzanne Preston Blier
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781568984131

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Butabu by James Morris,Suzanne Preston Blier Pdf

This volume examines the complex technique of wet earth construction, as practised in parts of West Africa. It includes a variety of structures, ranging from small huts to mosques, including the mosque at Dougoumba which dates from the 12th century.

Author : Michelle Apotsos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-20
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317275558

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Architecture, Islam, and Identity in West Africa by Michelle Apotsos Pdf

Architecture, Islam, and Identity in West Africa shows you the relationship between architecture and Islamic identity in West Africa. The book looks broadly across Muslim West Africa and takes an in-depth study of the village of Larabanga, a small Muslim community in Northern Ghana, to help you see how the built environment encodes cultural history through form, material, and space, creating an architectural narrative that outlines the contours of this distinctive Muslim identity. Apotsos explores how modern technology, heritage, and tourism have increasingly affected the contemporary architectural character of this community, revealing the village’s current state of social, cultural, and spiritual flux. More than 60 black and white images illustrate how architectural components within this setting express the distinctive narratives, value systems, and realities that make up the unique composition of this Afro-Islamic community.

Author : Labelle Prussin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520030044

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Hatumere by Labelle Prussin Pdf

Author : Manuel Herz,Ingrid Schröder,Hans Focketyn,Julia Jamrozik
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3038602949

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African Modernism by Manuel Herz,Ingrid Schröder,Hans Focketyn,Julia Jamrozik Pdf

A new edition of the most comprehensive survey of modern architecture in Africa to date. When the first edition of African Modernism was published in 2015, it was received with international praise and has been sought after constantly ever since it went out of print in 2018. Marking Park Books' 10th anniversary, this landmark book becomes available again in a new edition. In the 1950s and 1960s, most African countries gained independence from their respective colonial power. Architecture became one of the principal means by which the newly formed countries expressed their national identity. African Modernism investigates the close relationship between architecture and nation-building in Ghana, Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, Kenya, and Zambia. It features one hundred buildings with brief descriptive texts, images, site plans, and selected floor plans and sections. The vast majority of images were newly taken by Iwan Baan and Alexia Webster for the book's first edition. Their photographs document the buildings in their present state. Each country is portrayed in an introductory text and a timeline of historic events. Further essays on postcolonial Africa and specific aspects and topics, also illustrated with images and documents, round out this outstanding volume.

Author : Thomas M. Leonard
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0415976642

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Encyclopedia of the Developing World by Thomas M. Leonard Pdf

These crochet jackets from Coats & Clark let you change your wardrobe whenever you change your mood. Is it a day for quick decisions and getting things done? Toss on Confident, a button-down coat with a hem that cruises below the hip. If being Serene is more your thing, then mix a playful puff stitch with shades of green to create a jacket as peaceful as a forest retreat. Hunting for a way to buck the trends? The Bold jacket is camo-inspired, but it won t let you get lost in a crowd. Romantic is a cropped hoodie that hugs your shoulders and frames your face with soft bobbles. 4 jackets to crochet: Confident by Angel Rhett (sizes 8, 10, 12) ; Serene and Romantic, both by Ann E. Smith (sizes S, M, L, XL) ; and Bold by Kathleen Sams (sizes S, M, L) .

Author : Jean-Paul Bourdier,Thi Minh-Ha Trinh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Adobe houses
ISBN : 0415585430

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Vernacular Architecture of West Africa by Jean-Paul Bourdier,Thi Minh-Ha Trinh Pdf

"The dwellings of hundreds of African ethnic groups offer a variety of ideas and construction practices which contradict the widespread image of the primitive huts comonly atributed to rural Africa... The cultural dimension and its application using different architectural practices are illustrated in this work."--Book jacket.

Author : Victoria L. Rovine
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780253014139

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African Fashion, Global Style by Victoria L. Rovine Pdf

African Fashion, Global Style provides a lively look at fashion, international networks of style, material culture, and the world of African aesthetic expression. Victoria L. Rovine introduces fashion designers whose work reflects African histories and cultures both conceptually and stylistically, and demonstrates that dress styles associated with indigenous cultures may have all the hallmarks of high fashion. Taking readers into the complexities of influence and inspiration manifested through fashion, this book highlights the visually appealing, widely accessible, and highly adaptable styles of African dress that flourish on the global fashion market.

Author : Okechukwu Charles Nwafor
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780472054800

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Aso Ebi by Okechukwu Charles Nwafor Pdf

The Nigerian and West African practice of aso ebi fashion invokes notions of wealth and group dynamics in social gatherings. Okechukwu Nwafor’s volume Aso ebi investigates the practice in the cosmopolitan urban setting of Lagos, and argues that the visual and consumerist hype typical of the late capitalist system feeds this unique fashion practice. The book suggests that dress, fashion, aso ebi, and photography engender a new visual culture that largely reflects the economics of mundane living. Nwafor examines the practice’s societal dilemma, whereby the solidarity of aso ebi is dismissed by many as an ephemeral transaction. A circuitous transaction among photographers, fashion magazine producers, textile merchants, tailors, and individual fashionistas reinvents aso ebi as a product of cosmopolitan urban modernity. The results are a fetishization of various forms of commodity culture, personality cults through mass followership, the negotiation of symbolic power through mass-produced images, exchange value in human relationships through gifts, and a form of exclusion achieved through digital photo editing. Aso ebi has become an essential part of Lagos cosmopolitanism: as a rising form of a unique visual culture it is central to the unprecedented spread of a unique West African fashion style that revels in excessive textile overflow. This extreme dress style is what an individual requires to transcend the lack imposed by the chaos of the postcolonial city.

Author : Dave Kobrenski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0982668937

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Drawing on Culture by Dave Kobrenski Pdf

In Drawing on Culture, artist and ethnomusicologist Dave Kobrenski explores traditional cultures from around the world. West Africa is the first in the series and consists of more than 30 artworks done on location while traveling through villages along the Niger River in Guinée. Through detailed field drawings accompanied by his own notes, Kobrenski provides a glimpse into the lives and culture of a people maintaining their ancient traditions, even as the modern world encroaches.

Author : Derek F. Hayward,Julius S. Oguntoyinbo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000692693

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Climatology of West Africa by Derek F. Hayward,Julius S. Oguntoyinbo Pdf

Originally published in 1987, this book brings together information previously buried in specialist sources and makes it available to the student in a non-technical and well-illustrated synthesis. It builds a clear and detailed picture of the climates of West Africa, describing and explaining them and showing how crucial this understanding is to everyday life. The climate’s relevance to water resources, agriculture, health and industry is systematically considered.