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Author : Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta Mougoué
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9780472054138
Fresh insights into gendered politics in Cameroon
Author : African Print Cultures Network. Meeting
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780472053179
Broad-ranging essays on the social, political, and cultural significance of more than a century's worth of newspaper publishing practices across the African continent
Author : Okechukwu Charles Nwafor
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780472054800
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 : Drew A. Thompson
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472054640
Highlights the role of photography and other forms of aesthetic practice in processes of state formation and bureaucratic transition
Author : Mukoma Wa Ngugi
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780472053681
Engaging questions of language, identity, and reception to restore South African and diaspora writing to the African literary tradition
Author : Vesna Pešić,United States Institute of Peace
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Government publications
ISBN : PURD:32754066032263
Author : Serbin, Sylvia,Rasoanaivo-Randriamamonjy, Ravaomalala
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789231001307
Author : Human Rights Watch
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781609808150
The human rights records of more than ninety countries and territories are put into perspective in Human Rights Watch's signature yearly report. Reflecting extensive investigative work undertaken in 2016 by Human Rights Watch staff, in close partnership with domestic human rights activists, the annual World Report is an invaluable resource for journalists, diplomats, and citizens, and is a must-read for anyone interested in the fight to protect human rights in every corner of the globe.
Author : Oladejo, Mutiat Titilope
Publisher : Book Builders
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9789789211791
Woman in twentieth century colonial Africa experienced a loss of power in their social-economic status. The Women Went Radical provides a narrative of radical expressions extracted from the numerous petitions written to advance and advocate the cause of Yoruba women through individual and collective action. This analyses the impact and implication of petition writing on the administration of traditional and modern governments in colonial Yorubaland. The political context accurately projects the roles of women in influencing, resisting, negotiating and counteracting policies within the political system. The research argues that petition writing is a form of politics and radicalism that is not limited to national issues but also to their manifestation from the actions of the citizens—that is ‘politics from the grassroots’.
Author : Mark Dike DeLancey,Rebecca Neh Mbuh,Mark W. Delancey
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780810873995
Cameroon is a country endowed with a variety of climates and agricultural environments, numerous minerals, substantial forests, and a dynamic population. It is a country that should be a leader of Africa. Instead, we find a country almost paralyzed by corruption and poor management, a country with a low life expectancy and serious health problems, and a country from which the most talented and highly educated members of the population are emigrating in large numbers. Although Cameroon has made economic progress since independence, it has not been able to change the dependent nature of its economy. The economic situation combined with the dismal record of its political history, indicate that prospects for political stability, justice, and prosperity are dimmer than they have been for most of the country's independent existence. The fourth edition of the Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon has been updated to reflect advances in the study of Cameroon's history as well as to provide coverage of the years since the last edition. It relates the turbulent history of Cameroon through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and over 600 cross-referenced dictionary entries on significant persons, events, places, organizations, and other aspects of Cameroon history from the earliest times to the present.
Author : Kristin M. Bakke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107094383
Decentralization may help preserve peace in one country or in one region, but may have the opposite effect in others.
Author : Adebayo O. Olukoshi,Liisa Laakso
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019252761
The challenges facing the nation-state in contemporary Africa are increasingly attracting the attention of scholars interested to understand how the decomposition and recomposition of popular political identities on the continent are affecting the post-colonial unitary project. The studies presented in this volume show that the challenges to the post-colonial nation-state project in Africa have mainly taken ethno-regionalist, religious and separatist forms. These challenges have been shaped by the long drawn-out economic crisis, zero-sum, market-led structural adjustment, and the legacy of decades of political authoritarianism and exclusion that dates from the colonial period. The contributors to this book present different suggestions to promote national unity and a supporting civic identity in Africa.
Author : Louise Edwards,Nigel Penn,Jay Winter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1107151562
Author : Stephen Vertigans
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134126385
Militant Islam provides a sociological framework for understanding the rise and character of recent Islamic militancy. It takes a systematic approach to the phenomenon and includes analysis of cases from around the world, comparisons with militancy in other religions, and their causes and consequences. The sociological concepts and theories examined in the book include those associated with social closure, social movements, nationalism, risk, fear and ‘de-civilising’. These are applied within three main themes; characteristics of militant Islam, multi-layered causes and the consequences of militancy, in particular Western reactions within the ‘war on terror’. Interrelationships between religious and secular behaviour, ‘terrorism’ and ‘counter-terrorism’, popular support and opposition are explored. Through the examination of examples from across Muslim societies and communities, the analysis challenges the popular tendency to concentrate upon ‘al-Qa’ida’ and the Middle East. This book will be of interest to students of Sociology, Political Science and International Relations, in particular those taking courses on Islam, religion, terrorism, political violence and related regional studies.
Author : World Bank
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821384404
The 2011 WDR on Conflict, Security and Development underlines the devastating impact of persistent conflict on a country or region's development prospects - noting that the 1.5 billion people living in conflict-affected areas are twice as likely to be in poverty. Its goal is to contribute concrete, practical suggestions on conflict and fragility.