Generations In Africa

Author : Erdmute Alber,Sjaak van der Geest,Susan Reynolds Whyte
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Conflict of generations
ISBN : 9783825807153

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Generations in Africa by Erdmute Alber,Sjaak van der Geest,Susan Reynolds Whyte Pdf

Though long neglected in anthropological research, the connections and conflicts between generations are at the heart of social processes. In this book, sixteen studies examine relations between generations of kin and between historical and political generations. The topics range from grandmother's cooking, migrant remittances, youth unemployment, teenage pregnancy, Valentine's Day, and hip hop music, to respect, religious virtue, gerontocracy, memory, wisdom, complaint, and the meaning of tradition. Together they reinvigorate and expand the old anthropological interest in generation, showing how necessary it is to understanding contemporary African societies.

Author : Andrew Ross Burton,Hélène Charton-Bigot
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780821419243

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Generations Past by Andrew Ross Burton,Hélène Charton-Bigot Pdf

Contemporary Africa is demographically characterized above all else by its youthfulness. In East Africa the median age of the population is now a striking 17.5 years, and more than 65 percent of the population is age 24 or under. This situation has attracted growing scholarly attention, resulting in an important and rapidly expanding literature on the position of youth in African societies. While the scholarship examining the contemporary role of youth in African societies is rich and growing, the historical dimension has been largely neglected in the literature thus far. Generations Past seeks to address this gap through a wide-ranging selection of essays that covers an array of youth-related themes in historical perspective. Thirteen chapters explore the historical dimensions of youth in nineteenth-, twentieth-, and twenty-first–century Ugandan, Tanzanian, and Kenyan societies. Key themes running through the book include the analytical utility of youth as a social category; intergenerational relations and the passage of time; youth as a social and political problem; sex and gender roles among East African youth; and youth as historical agents of change. The strong list of contributors includes prominent scholars of the region, and the collection encompasses a good geographical spread of all three East African countries.

Author : Robin D. Morum
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781329941106

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SIX GENERATIONS IN SOUTHERN AFRICA by Robin D. Morum Pdf

A personal history of the life of a sixth generation South African and his family.

Author : Tharcisse Gatwa,Deo Mbonyinkebe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Peace building
ISBN : 9997770455

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Home-grown solutions by Tharcisse Gatwa,Deo Mbonyinkebe Pdf

Author : Mark Mathabane
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UVA:X002473491

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African Women by Mark Mathabane Pdf

The bestselling author of Kaffir Boy offers the profoundly dramatic, ppersonal stories of his mother, grandmother, and sister and the desperate and dire circumstances under which they raised their families in the face of apartheid. Photos.

Author : Ira Berlin
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2004-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0674020839

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Generations of Captivity by Ira Berlin Pdf

Ira Berlin traces the history of African-American slavery in the United States from its beginnings in the seventeenth century to its fiery demise nearly three hundred years later. Most Americans, black and white, have a singular vision of slavery, one fixed in the mid-nineteenth century when most American slaves grew cotton, resided in the deep South, and subscribed to Christianity. Here, however, Berlin offers a dynamic vision, a major reinterpretation in which slaves and their owners continually renegotiated the terms of captivity. Slavery was thus made and remade by successive generations of Africans and African Americans who lived through settlement and adaptation, plantation life, economic transformations, revolution, forced migration, war, and ultimately, emancipation. Berlin's understanding of the processes that continually transformed the lives of slaves makes Generations of Captivity essential reading for anyone interested in the evolution of antebellum America. Connecting the Charter Generation to the development of Atlantic society in the seventeenth century, the Plantation Generation to the reconstruction of colonial society in the eighteenth century, the Revolutionary Generation to the Age of Revolutions, and the Migration Generation to American expansionism in the nineteenth century, Berlin integrates the history of slavery into the larger story of American life. He demonstrates how enslaved black people, by adapting to changing circumstances, prepared for the moment when they could seize liberty and declare themselves the Freedom Generation. This epic story, told by a master historian, provides a rich understanding of the experience of African-American slaves, an experience that continues to mobilize American thought and passions today.

Author : Eldred Durosimi Jones,Marjorie Jones
Publisher : James Currey Publishers
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Africa
ISBN : 0852555202

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New Trends & Generations in African Literature by Eldred Durosimi Jones,Marjorie Jones Pdf

This work features articles which examine the works of new African writers who have appeared (or who have developed significantly) in the last two decades in all of the genres. North America: Africa World Press

Author : B. Maduabuchi A. Igbani
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438934723

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Motherland Afrika by B. Maduabuchi A. Igbani Pdf

This book is primarily about the culture of the people of Africa. It is a presentation of the way of life of a people which has been handed down from generations, and which also symbolizes a unique identity to persons of color irrespective of place of residence. The book presents a compelling background information on the exploitation of Africa by her European Colonial players. The Author also included some interesting pictures of the various stages of human development in their efforts to maintaining that what it takes to build and sustain a community. From marriage to childbirth through the formative years, to the institution of age grade system which provided the cornerstone for a viable communal improvement and security. The book ended with the presentation of a variety of aesthetic values which put Africa back at the center of cultural emancipation which she holds as a footprint for generations.

Author : Joshua Schwisow,Kevin Swanson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1733230459

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Taking Africa for Jesus by Joshua Schwisow,Kevin Swanson Pdf

Author : Jonathan Chigozie Udoji
Publisher : Xlibris Us
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9798369419601

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Second Lost Generation of African People by Jonathan Chigozie Udoji Pdf

The book talk about encouraging Africans to unite, come back home and develop their land with their untapped abilities. Telling the leaders to change from clueless idea. Stop stealing public fund, tribalism and religious fanatism to focuses on development. AaAfricanland. land and its people or caring to develop

Author : Brenda Cooper
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781847010766

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A New Generation of African Writers by Brenda Cooper Pdf

Brenda Cooper examines the work of the new generation of African writers who have placed migration as central to their writing

Author : Tanure Ojaide
Publisher : Springer
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137560032

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Indigeneity, Globalization, and African Literature by Tanure Ojaide Pdf

Literature remains one of the few disciplines that reflect the experiences, sensibility, worldview, and living realities of its people. Contemporary African literature captures the African experience in history and politics in a multiplicity of ways. Politics itself has come to intersect and impact on most, if not all, aspects of the African reality. This relationship of literature with African people’s lives and condition forms the setting of this study. Tanure Ojaide’s Indigeneity, Globalization, and African Literature: Personally Speaking belongs with a well-established tradition of personal reflections on literature by African creative writer-critics. Ojaide’s contribution brings to the table the perspective of what is now recognized as a “second generation” writer, a poet, and a concerned citizen of Nigeria’s Niger Delta area.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : UNICEF
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2006-08
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9789280640342

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Africa's Orphaned and Vulnerable Generations by Anonim Pdf

Estimates the number of children orphaned in sub-Saharan Africa, as well as current research on the impact of AIDS and orphaning. Information about orphans in the region has increased significantly in recent years and research has become more rigorous. And, while information on other vulnerable children in the region lags far behind, the situation of some well-defined groups, such as children living with chronically ill parents, is now being studied more systematically. This report is meant to shed light on the circumstances of children affected by the AIDS epidemic and to encourage action.--Introduction.

Author : Catherine Beaudry,Johann Mouton
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781928331940

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The Next Generation of Scientists in Africa by Catherine Beaudry,Johann Mouton Pdf

Young scientists are a powerful resource for change and sustainable development, as they drive innovation and knowledge creation. However, comparable findings on young scientists in various countries, especially in Africa and developing regions, are generally sparse. Therefore, empirical knowledge on the state of early-career scientists is critical in order to address current challenges faced by those scientists in Africa. This book reports on the main findings of a three-and-a-half-year international project in order to assist its readers in better understanding the African research system in general, and more specifically its young scientists. The first part of the book provides background on the state of science in Africa, and bibliometric findings concerning Africas scientific production and networks, for the period 2005 to 2015. The second part of the book combines the findings of a large-scale, quantitative survey and more than 200 qualitative interviews to provide a detailed profile of young scientists and the barriers they face in terms of five aspects of their careers: research output; funding; mobility; collaboration; and mentoring. In each case, field and gender differences are also taken into account. The last part of the book comprises conclusions and recommendations to relevant policy- and decision-makers on desirable changes to current research systems in Africa.

Author : Vitor Sérgio Ferreira
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783039283262

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Youth Studies and Generations by Vitor Sérgio Ferreira Pdf

There is currently much discourse about generations in the public sphere. A sequence of letters conflates generations and age cohorts born in the last few decades (generation “X”, “Y” or “Z”) as well as multiple categories are used to describe today’s young people as a generation that is distinct from its predecessors. Despite the popularity of generational labels in media, politics, or even academia, the use of generation as a conceptual tool in youth studies has been controversial. This Special Issue allows readers to better understand the key issues regarding the use of generation as a theoretical concept and/or as a social category in the field of youth studies, shedding light on the controversies, trends, and cautions that go through it.