Freedom Afrika

Author : Cosmo Starlight
Publisher : Church Publishing
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781310833755

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Freedom Afrika by Cosmo Starlight Pdf

Noodle Church escapes solitary confinement in Freedom Incorporated to live with people who stand against bombs, bullets, powders, and policemen. Journeying over three continents bringing only a pack which rarely comes off his back wearing canvas pants he’d become accustomed to sleeping in to reach Freedom Afrika, people procure Noodle a home so he doesn't have to live on the street for Christmas. Africans feed Noodle, lend him jackets to wear when it’s cold, and provide security ensured by honest, trustworthy relationships. Noodle suspects wardens tracked his escape and discovers wildland unfolding along a thousand kilometers of rugged coastline to document a system that keeps people working with cameras and clandestine surveillance, Freedom Inc. But where threats are feral bulls soaking in coastal sun, Noodle thought he'd found freedom; that is, until International Intelligence Service agents aid recollection of love lost after being imprisoned without charges, a trial, or record of detainment. Stuck in a place so remote footpaths replaced roads, provocateurs gain Noodle’s trust only to compromise his strength for men riding dirt-bikes to push the boy born with blue skin beyond the boundaries of Freedom’s law. Agents didn't break Noodle. He doesn’t get caught killing anyone. Instead Noodle flees Camp without clean water then sleeps shelter-less on African wildland only to return to the Town where he'd awoken that Christmas morning on the floor of a snack shop. Agents tracked him there too yet, after fighting a twenty-yearlong war, Africans excelled at security. People who'd witnessed brothers being shot, poisoned, and burned alive proclaimed, “Noodle it doesn't matter if men wearing white suits come with masks attached to breathing apparatuses then allege you have a rare disease nobody’s ever heard of. Even if they say it’s a matter of national security we’ll never let those wardens take you again. Here people fight to defend independence.” The Africans were poor but they rejected bombs, bullets, powders, and policemen. Freedom Afrika taught Noodle that people need food, water, shelter, and love in order to survive. Love is all he needed!

Author : Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780429960192

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Epistemic Freedom in Africa by Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni Pdf

Epistemic Freedom in Africa is about the struggle for African people to think, theorize, interpret the world and write from where they are located, unencumbered by Eurocentrism. The imperial denial of common humanity to some human beings meant that in turn their knowledges and experiences lost their value, their epistemic virtue. Now, in the twenty-first century, descendants of enslaved, displaced, colonized, and racialized peoples have entered academies across the world, proclaiming loudly that they are human beings, their lives matter and they were born into valid and legitimate knowledge systems that are capable of helping humanity to transcend the current epistemic and systemic crises. Together, they are engaging in diverse struggles for cognitive justice, fighting against the epistemic line which haunts the twenty-first century. The renowned historian and decolonial theorist Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni offers a penetrating and well-argued case for centering Africa as a legitimate historical unit of analysis and epistemic site from which to interpret the world, whilst simultaneously making an equally strong argument for globalizing knowledge from Africa so as to attain ecologies of knowledges. This is a dual process of both deprovincializing Africa, and in turn provincializing Europe. The book highlights how the mental universe of Africa was invaded and colonized, the long-standing struggles for 'an African university', and the trajectories of contemporary decolonial movements such as Rhodes Must Fall and Fees Must Fall in South Africa. This landmark work underscores the fact that only once the problem of epistemic freedom has been addressed can Africa achieve political, cultural, economic and other freedoms. This groundbreaking new book is accessible to students and scholars across Education, History, Philosophy, Ethics, African Studies, Development Studies, Politics, International Relations, Sociology, Postcolonial Studies and the emerging field of Decolonial Studies. The Open Access versions Chapter 1 and Chapter 9, available at https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429492204 have been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Author : Jamie Monson
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253002815

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Africa's Freedom Railway by Jamie Monson Pdf

The TAZARA (Tanzania Zambia Railway Authority), or Freedom Railway, from Dar es Salaam on the Tanzanian coast to the Copperbelt region of Zambia, was instrumental in fostering one of the most sweeping development transitions in postcolonial Africa. Built during the height of the Cold War, the railway was intended to redirect the mineral wealth of the interior away from routes through South Africa and Rhodesia. Rebuffed by Western aid agencies, newly independent Tanzania and Zambia accepted help from China to construct what would become one of Africa's most vital transportation corridors. The book follows the railroad from design and construction to its daily use as a vital means for moving villagers and goods. It tells a story of how transnational interests contributed to environmental change, population movements, and the rise of local and regional enterprise.

Author : Mahmood Mamdani,Mamadou Diouf
Publisher : Codesria
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006074004

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Academic Freedom in Africa by Mahmood Mamdani,Mamadou Diouf Pdf

Eighteen of Africa's most distinguished scholars have contributed to this major and timely work, including Claude Ake, Archie Mafeje, Ali Mazrui, Issa Shivji and Joseph Ki-Zerbo. As a first step towards greater consideration of the nature of the research environment in Africa and to reflect on the social and material context of research as an intellectual activity, CODESRIA co-organised a major conference on academic freedom and research in Africa in Kampala in 1990. A selection of the conferencepapers are contained in this volume. The papers cover the relationship of capital and the state to academic freedom, the historical processes which have shaped intellectuals in Africa, issue of autonomy and democracy andthe question of funding relationships, and the difficulty of alliances that question the right to independence. The book is divided into fivesections: Reflections; Methodological Perspectives; Global Influences andLocal Constraints; Intelligentsia and Activism; and Organizing Academics.

Author : Phyllis Taoua
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108427418

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African Freedom by Phyllis Taoua Pdf

A comprehensive synthesis of the ideal of freedom in African culture from a pan-African perspective after independence.

Author : Thomas Sankara
Publisher : Pathfinder Press (NY)
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Burkina Faso
ISBN : UCAL:B4956234

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Women's Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle by Thomas Sankara Pdf

"There is no true social revolution without the liberation of women," explains the leader of the 1983-87 revolution in Burkina Faso. Workers and peasants in that West African country established a popular revolutionary government and began to combat the hunger, illiteracy, and economic backwardness imposed by imperialist domination.

Author : Piero Gleijeses
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 673 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469609683

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Visions of Freedom by Piero Gleijeses Pdf

Visions of Freedom: Havana, Washington, Pretoria, and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1976-1991

Author : Joyce Cary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Africa
ISBN : UOM:35112104717642

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The Case for African Freedom by Joyce Cary Pdf

Author : Kwame Nkrumah
Publisher : New York : Praeger
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Africa
ISBN : STANFORD:36105041536504

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I Speak of Freedom by Kwame Nkrumah Pdf

Author : Ingrid Monson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2007-10-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780199880881

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Freedom Sounds by Ingrid Monson Pdf

An insightful examination of the impact of the Civil Rights Movement and African Independence on jazz in the 1950s and 60s, Freedom Sounds traces the complex relationships among music, politics, aesthetics, and activism through the lens of the hot button racial and economic issues of the time. Ingrid Monson illustrates how the contentious and soul-searching debates in the Civil Rights, African Independence, and Black Power movements shaped aesthetic debates and exerted a moral pressure on musicians to take action. Throughout, her arguments show how jazz musicians' quest for self-determination as artists and human beings also led to fascinating and far reaching musical explorations and a lasting ethos of social critique and transcendence. Across a broad body of issues of cultural and political relevance, Freedom Sounds considers the discursive, structural, and practical aspects of life in the jazz world in the 1950s and 1960s. In domestic politics, Monson explores the desegregation of the American Federation of Musicians, the politics of playing to segregated performance venues in the 1950s, the participation of jazz musicians in benefit concerts, and strategies of economic empowerment. Issues of transatlantic importance such as the effects of anti-colonialism and African nationalism on the politics and aesthetics of the music are also examined, from Paul Robeson's interest in Africa, to the State Department jazz tours, to the interaction of jazz musicians such Art Blakey and Randy Weston with African and African diasporic aesthetics. Monson deftly explores musicians' aesthetic agency in synthesizing influential forms of musical expression from a multiplicity of stylistic and cultural influences--African American music, popular song, classical music, African diasporic aesthetics, and other world musics--through examples from cool jazz, hard bop, modal jazz, and the avant-garde. By considering the differences between aesthetic and socio-economic mobility, she presents a fresh interpretation of debates over cultural ownership, racism, reverse racism, and authenticity. Freedom Sounds will be avidly read by students and academics in musicology, ethnomusicology, anthropology, popular music, African American Studies, and African diasporic studies, as well as fans of jazz, hip hop, and African American music.

Author : Cosmo Starlight
Publisher : Church Publishing
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781301329083

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Freedom Incorporated by Cosmo Starlight Pdf

Freedom has become a labor camp. Cameras, cyber surveillance, and clandestine security contain truth as free-citizens engineer systems to restrict children inside a police state. Set in 2042, society’s day-wardens fight those managing the Corporation at night while super-wardens expand their government. Prisoner Noodle Church doesn't mind working in Freedom Incorporated. Yet refusal to call it freedom lands Noodle in Freedom Inc.’s medium-security ward where day-wardens pressure him to reveal work at night. And when Noodle exercises his right to remain silent, because living in Freedom is easier that way, super-wardens take the hero for interrogation. A beacon of freedom in day and night wardens’ bi-polar war for power, Noodle is moved to high-security but before getting locked-up in a super-max facility wardens offer a deal. Noodle can work in Freedom’s low-security ward if he pleads insanity then testifies clandestine security caught pursuing were a figment of his imagination. Noodle refuses to call this freedom! Night-shift wardens try murdering him then day-shift wardens place Noodle in solitary confinement. From here his character writes the prisoners of Freedom Incorporated, asking for freedom to lead without bombs, bullets, powders, or policemen.

Author : Adriane Lentz-Smith
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674054189

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Freedom Struggles by Adriane Lentz-Smith Pdf

For many of the 200,000 black soldiers sent to Europe with the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I, encounters with French civilians and colonial African troops led them to imagine a world beyond Jim Crow. They returned home to join activists working to make that world real. In narrating the efforts of African American soldiers and activists to gain full citizenship rights as recompense for military service, Adriane Lentz-Smith illuminates how World War I mobilized a generation. Black and white soldiers clashed as much with one another as they did with external enemies. Race wars within the military and riots across the United States demonstrated the lengths to which white Americans would go to protect a carefully constructed caste system. Inspired by Woodrow Wilson’s rhetoric of self-determination but battered by the harsh realities of segregation, African Americans fought their own “war for democracy,” from the rebellions of black draftees in French and American ports to the mutiny of Army Regulars in Houston, and from the lonely stances of stubborn individuals to organized national campaigns. African Americans abroad and at home reworked notions of nation and belonging, empire and diaspora, manhood and citizenship. By war’s end, they ceased trying to earn equal rights and resolved to demand them. This beautifully written book reclaims World War I as a critical moment in the freedom struggle and places African Americans at the crossroads of social, military, and international history.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Africa
ISBN : STANFORD:36105120086876

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African Freedom Annual by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jim Downs
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199908783

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Sick from Freedom by Jim Downs Pdf

Bondspeople who fled from slavery during and after the Civil War did not expect that their flight toward freedom would lead to sickness, disease, suffering, and death. But the war produced the largest biological crisis of the nineteenth century, and as historian Jim Downs reveals in this groundbreaking volume, it had deadly consequences for hundreds of thousands of freed people. In Sick from Freedom, Downs recovers the untold story of one of the bitterest ironies in American history--that the emancipation of the slaves, seen as one of the great turning points in U.S. history, had devastating consequences for innumerable freed people. Drawing on massive new research into the records of the Medical Division of the Freedmen's Bureau-a nascent national health system that cared for more than one million freed slaves-he shows how the collapse of the plantation economy released a plague of lethal diseases. With emancipation, African Americans seized the chance to move, migrating as never before. But in their journey to freedom, they also encountered yellow fever, smallpox, cholera, dysentery, malnutrition, and exposure. To address this crisis, the Medical Division hired more than 120 physicians, establishing some forty underfinanced and understaffed hospitals scattered throughout the South, largely in response to medical emergencies. Downs shows that the goal of the Medical Division was to promote a healthy workforce, an aim which often excluded a wide range of freedpeople, including women, the elderly, the physically disabled, and children. Downs concludes by tracing how the Reconstruction policy was then implemented in the American West, where it was disastrously applied to Native Americans. The widespread medical calamity sparked by emancipation is an overlooked episode of the Civil War and its aftermath, poignantly revealed in Sick from Freedom.

Author : Tom Mboya
Publisher : East African Publishers
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Africa
ISBN : 9966469745

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Freedom and After by Tom Mboya Pdf