In Light Of Africa

Author : Allan Charles Dawson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442619944

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In Light of Africa explores how the idea of Africa as a real place, an imagined homeland, and a metaphor for Black identity is used in the cultural politics of the Brazilian state of Bahia. In the book, Allan Charles Dawson argues that Africa, as both a symbol and a geographical and historical place, is vital to understanding the wide range of identities and ideas about racial consciousness that exist in Bahia’s Afro-Brazilian communities. In his ethnographic research Dawson follows the idea of “Africa” from the city of Salvador to the West African coast and back to the hinterlands of the Bahian interior. Along the way, he encounters West African entrepreneurs, Afrobeat musicians, devotees of the Afro-Brazilian religion Candomblé, professors of the Yoruba language, and hardscrabble farmers and ranchers, each of whom engages with the “idea of Africa” in their own personal way.

Author : James MacDonald
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Africa, Southern
ISBN : PSU:000018576665

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Light in Africa by James MacDonald Pdf

Missions - Southern Africa -Description and travel.On the author's missionary experiences in South Africa.

Author : Allan Charles Dawson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442626690

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In Light of Africa by Allan Charles Dawson Pdf

In Light of Africa explores how the idea of Africa as a real place, an imagined homeland, and a metaphor for Black identity is used in the cultural politics of the Brazilian state of Bahia. In the book, Allan Charles Dawson argues that Africa, as both a symbol and a geographical and historical place, is vital to understanding the wide range of identities and ideas about racial consciousness that exist in Bahia's Afro-Brazilian communities. In his ethnographic research Dawson follows the idea of “Africa” from the city of Salvador to the West African coast and back to the hinterlands of the Bahian interior. Along the way, he encounters West African entrepreneurs, Afrobeat musicians, devotees of the Afro-Brazilian religion Candomblé, professors of the Yoruba language, and hardscrabble farmers and ranchers, each of whom engages with the “idea of Africa” in their own personal way.

Author : Petina Gappah
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781982110345

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Out of Darkness, Shining Light by Petina Gappah Pdf

A powerful, moving, and revelatory novel set in nineteenth-century Africa--the captivating story of the loyal men and women who carried the body of explorer and missionary David Livingstone from Zambia to Zanzibar so that his remains could be returned home to England. Dawn, 1 May 1873, on the outskirts of Chitambo's village, near Lake Bangweulu in modern-day Zambia. The Scottish explorer and missionary David Livingstone has died. He had been heading south in the African interior on an increasingly maniacal mission to penetrate the greatest secret of Victorian exploration. He wanted to find the source of the world's longest river, the Nile. Instead, on an isolated and swampy floodplain, Dr. Livingstone found his death. How Livingstone is to be buried will be decided by his African companions, a group of sixty-nine men, women, and children. They decide that come what may, Livingstone, his papers and maps, must all be carried to England. They bury his heart and other organs under a tree and dry his flesh like jerky in the sun. Over nine months, battling severe illness and hunger, hostile chiefs and unknown terrain, all while taking a tortuous route of more than 1,000 miles to the coast to avoid marauding slave traders, they march with Livingstone's body and the evidence of his explorations. Their journey has been called "the most extraordinary story in African exploration." In this novel, their story is retold anew in the distinct, indelible voices of Livingstone's sharp-tongued female cook, Halima; a repressed, formerly enslaved African missionary named Jacob Wainwright; and the collective voice of the retainers. The result is a profound and tragic journey--an epic like no other--that encompasses all of the hypocrisy of slavery and colonization while celebrating resilience, loyalty, and love. In Out of Darkness, Shining Light, Petina Gappah has created an ambitious and artful masterpiece.

Author : Binyavanga Wainaina
Publisher : One World
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780812989663

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How to Write About Africa by Binyavanga Wainaina Pdf

From one of Africa’s most influential and eloquent essayists, a posthumous collection that highlights his biting satire and subversive wisdom on topics from travel to cultural identity to sexuality “A fierce literary talent . . . [Wainaina] shines a light on his continent without cliché.”—The Guardian “Africa is the only continent you can love—take advantage of this. . . . Africa is to be pitied, worshipped, or dominated. Whichever angle you take, be sure to leave the strong impression that without your intervention and your important book, Africa is doomed.” Binyavanga Wainaina was a pioneering voice in African literature, an award-winning memoirist and essayist remembered as one of the greatest chroniclers of contemporary African life. This groundbreaking collection brings together, for the first time, Wainaina’s pioneering writing on the African continent, including many of his most critically acclaimed pieces, such as the viral satirical sensation “How to Write About Africa.” Working fearlessly across a range of topics—from politics to international aid, cultural heritage, and redefined sexuality—he describes the modern world with sensual, emotional, and psychological detail, giving us a full-color view of his home country and continent. These works present the portrait of a giant in African literature who left a tremendous legacy.

Author : Naʼim Akbar
Publisher : Mind Productions & Associates
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Black people
ISBN : 0935257020

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Light from Ancient Africa by Naʼim Akbar Pdf

Light from Ancient Africa is a critical contribution to what might be called the Re-Africanization of Psychology Project. It was within this project that we came to realize that the notion of human psychology was and remains an African invention...In this book, Na'im Akbar provides the reader with a clear and concise understanding of the African (Kemetic) origins of psychology, and provides the insightful guidelines to modern-day implications and applications of the field. From foreword by Wade W. Nobles

Author : Hinh T. Dinh,Vincent Palmade,Vandana Chandra,Frances Cossar
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821389744

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Light Manufacturing in Africa by Hinh T. Dinh,Vincent Palmade,Vandana Chandra,Frances Cossar Pdf

This book argues that light manufacturing can offer a viable solution for Sub-Saharan Africa, given potential competitiveness based on low wage costs and an abundance of natural resources that supply raw materials needed for industries.

Author : T. Jack Thompson
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802865243

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Light on Darkness? by T. Jack Thompson Pdf

In its earliest days, photography was seen as depicting its subjects with such objectivity as to be inherently free of ideological bias. Today we are rightly more skeptical -- at least most of the time. When it comes to photography from the past, we tend to set some of our skepticism aside. But should we? In Light on Darkness? T. Jack Thompson, a leading historian of African Christianity, revisits the body of photography generated by British missionaries to sub-Saharan Africa in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and demonstrates that much more is going on in these images than meets the eye. This volume offers a careful reassessment of missionary photographers, their photographs, and their African and European audiences. Several dozen fascinating photographs from the period are included.

Author : Thomas Edward Besolow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : African Americans
ISBN : HARVARD:32044024611899

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From the Darkness of Africa to the Light of America by Thomas Edward Besolow Pdf

Author : Anthea Jeffrey
Publisher : Jonathan Ball Publishers
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781868429974

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People's War by Anthea Jeffrey Pdf

More than 25 years have passed since South Africans were being shot or hacked or burned to death in political violence, and the memory of the trauma has faded. Nevertheless, some 20 500 people were killed between 1984 and 1994. Conventional wisdom has it that most died as a result of the ANC's people's war. Many books have been written on South Africa's political transition, but none has dealt adequately with the people's war. This book does. It shows the extraordinary success of the people's war in giving the ANC a virtual monopoly on power, as well as the great cost at which this was done. The high price of it is still being paid. Apart from the terror and killings it sparked at the time, the people's war set in motion forces that cannot easily be tamed. Violence, once unleashed, is not easy to stamp out. 'Ungovernability', once generated, is not readily reversed. For this new edition, Anthea Jeffery has revised and abridged her seminal work. She has also included a brief overview of the ANC's National Democratic Revolution for which the people's war was intended to prepare the way. Since 1994, the NDR has been implemented in many different spheres. It is now being speeded up in its second and more radical phase.

Author : Thomas E. (Thomas Edward) Besolow
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1362115185

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FROM THE DARKNESS OF AFRICA TO by Thomas E. (Thomas Edward) Besolow Pdf

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Author : Thomas E. Besolow
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0483290629

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From the Darkness of Africa to the Light of America by Thomas E. Besolow Pdf

Excerpt from From the Darkness of Africa to the Light of America: The Story of an African Prince Considering that most of us have always lived amid the rush of our own hasty American life, and under the influence of our mighty, Christian civilization, have we not, in some measure, failed to behold the great and many needs of the millions who in Africa are enjoying the smallest volume of life, because the superstition and the heathenism of darker ages rule them with an iron sceptre, which bends them to the dust, and urges them to worship and to implore a cold, dead, barren moon to bless them, and to guide them? Away down through this brazen superstition, through the empty idolatry, and into the heart and mind of this humble African, there beamed a golden ray of the marvelous, life-giving light of the Saviour of the world. His whole soul became illuminated with the light of truth. Many have heard his humble testimony of how God redeemed him from the idolatry and human sacrifices of his people. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Julie Berebitsky
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780300118995

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Sex and the Office by Julie Berebitsky Pdf

In this engaging book—the first to historicize our understanding of sexual harassment in the workplace—Julie Berebitsky explores how Americans' attitudes toward sexuality and gender in the office have changed since the 1860s, when women first took jobs as clerks in the U.S. Treasury office. Berebitsky recounts the actual experiences of female and male office workers; draws on archival sources ranging from the records of investigators looking for waste in government offices during World War II to the personal papers of Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley Brown and Ms. magazine founder Gloria Steinem; and explores how popular sources—including cartoons, advertisements, advice guides, and a wide array of fictional accounts—have represented wanted and unwelcome romantic and sexual advances. This range of evidence and the study's long scope expose both notable transformations and startling continuities in the interplay of gender, power and desire at work.

Author : Corrie Decker,Elisabeth McMahon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107103696

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The Idea of Development in Africa by Corrie Decker,Elisabeth McMahon Pdf

An engaging history of how the idea of development has shaped Africa's past and present encounters with the West.

Author : Thomas Edward Besolow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Guinea
ISBN : YALE:39002044559525

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From the Darkness of Africa to the Light of America by Thomas Edward Besolow Pdf