Indigenous Elites In Africa

Author : Serah Shani
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000482218

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Indigenous Elites in Africa by Serah Shani Pdf

This book investigates the formation, configuration and consolidation of elites amongst Kenya’s Maasai. The Maasai ethnic group is one of the world’s most anthropologized populations, but research tends to focus on what appears to be their dismal situation, analysing how their culture hinders or challenges modern ideas of economic and political development. This book instead focuses on the Maasai men and women who rise to the position of elites, overcoming the odds to take on positions as politicians, professors, CEOs, and high-end administrators. The twenty-first century has seen new opportunities for progression beyond the social reproduction of family wealth, with NGOs, missionaries, tourists and researchers providing new sources of global capital flows. The author, who is Maasai herself, demonstrates the diverse local, national, and global resources and opportunities which lead to social mobility and elite formation. The book also shows how female elites have been able to navigate a patriarchal society in their journey to attaining and maintaining elite status. This book will be of interest to researchers across the fields of anthropology, political science, international development, sociology, and African studies.

Author : George Ayittey
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2006-09-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789047440031

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Indigenous African Institutions by George Ayittey Pdf

George Ayittey’s Indigenous African Institutions presents a detailed and convincing picture of pre-colonial and post-colonial Africa - its cultures, traditions, and indigenous institutions, including participatory democracy.

Author : Laher, Ridwan,SingíOei, Korir
Publisher : Africa Institute of South Africa
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780798304641

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Indigenous People in Africa by Laher, Ridwan,SingíOei, Korir Pdf

This volume is an attempt to provide this intersectional and reflexive space. The thinking behind the book began in Lamu in mid-2010. It was a time when growing community resistance emerged towards the Kenyan government's plan to build a second seaport under a trans-frontier infrastructural project known as the Lamu Port- South Sudan-Ethiopia Transport Corridor (LAPSSET). The editors agreed that a book that draws community activists, academics, researchers and policy makers into a discussion of the predicament of indigenous rights and development against the backdrop of the Endorois case was timely and needed. Assembled here are the original contributions of some of the leading contemporary thinkers in the area of indigenous and human rights in Africa. The book is an interdisciplinary effort with the single purpose of thinking through indigenous rights after the Endorois case but it is not a singular laudatory remark on indigenous life in Africa. The discussion begins by framing indigenous rights and claims to indigeneity as found in the Endorois decision and its related socio-political history. Subsequent chapters provide deeper contextual analysis by evaluating the tense relationship between indigenous peoples and the post-colonial nation-state. Overall, the book makes a peering and provocative contribution to the relational interests between state policies and the developmental intersections of indigeneity, indigenous rights, gender advocacy, environmental conservation, chronic trauma and transitional justice.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047441120

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Grappling with the Beast by Anonim Pdf

This volume contributes rich, new material to provide insights into indigenous responses to the colonial empires of Great Britain and Germany (Namibia) and explore the complex intellectual, cultural, literary, and political borders and identities that emerged across these spaces.

Author : Mawere, Munyaradzi,Awuah-Nyamekye, Samuel
Publisher : Langaa RPCIG
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789956792696

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Between Rhetoric and Reality by Mawere, Munyaradzi,Awuah-Nyamekye, Samuel Pdf

Since time immemorial, indigenous peoples around the world have developed knowledge systems to ensure their continued survival in their respective territories. These knowledge systems have always been dynamic such that they could meet new challenges. Yet, since the so-called enlightenment period, these knowledges have been supplanted by the Western enlightenment science or colonial science hegemony and arrogance such that in many cases they were relegated to the periphery. Some Euro-centric scholars even viewed indigenous knowledge as superstitious, irrational and anti-development. This erroneous view has, since the colonial period, spread like veld fire to the extent of being internalised by some political elites and Euro-centric academics of Africa and elsewhere. However, for some time now, the potential role that indigenous peoples and their knowledge can play in addressing some of the global problems haunting humanity across the world is increasingly emerging as part of international discourse. This book presents an interesting and insightful discourse on the state and role that indigenous knowledge can play in addressing a tapestry of problems of the world and the challenges connected with the application of indigenous knowledge in enlightenment science-dominated contexts. The book is not only useful to academics and students in the fields of indigenous studies and anthropology, but also those in other fields such as environmental science, social and political ecology, development studies, policy studies, economic history, and African studies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Africa
ISBN : 3447195002

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Discourses of Indigenous-christian Elites in Colonial Societies in Asia and Africa Around 1900 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Peter B. Villella
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107129030

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Indigenous Elites and Creole Identity in Colonial Mexico, 1500–1800 by Peter B. Villella Pdf

This book explores colonial indigenous historical accounts to offer a new interpretation of the origins of Mexico's neo-Aztec patriotic identity.

Author : Serah Shani
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781498562102

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African Immigrant Families in the United States by Serah Shani Pdf

Serah Shani examines the socioeconomic and cultural forces behind the success of “model minority” immigrants from sub-Saharan Africa in the United States. In particular, Shani looks at the integral role of the Ghanaian Network Village, a transnational space that provides educational resources beyond local neighborhoods in the US.

Author : Robert K. Hitchcock,Diana Vinding
Publisher : IWGIA
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 8791563089

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Indigenous Peoples' Rights in Southern Africa by Robert K. Hitchcock,Diana Vinding Pdf

This book is concerned with the first peoples (those people who are considered indigenous by themselves and others) of southern Africa such as the San, the Nama, and the Khoi, and their rights. Although living in democratic countries like Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Botswana --and in principle sharing the same rights and responsibilities as the rest of the population--practice shows that these peoples more often than not are at the margins of the societies in which they live; they often face extreme poverty, and they frequently are subjected to discriminatory treatment and exposed to all kinds of human rights abuses. Robert K. Hitchcock is professor of anthropology and geography at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA. He has done extensive research and development work in southern Africa in general and among San peoples in particular. Diana Vinding is an anthropologist working with the International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA) in Copenhagen.

Author : Runette Kruger,Rudi de Lange,Ingrid Stevens
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781527523623

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The Arts and Indigenous Knowledge Systems in a Modernized Africa by Runette Kruger,Rudi de Lange,Ingrid Stevens Pdf

This collection derives from a conference held in Pretoria, South Africa, and discusses issues of indigenous knowledge systems (IKS) and the arts. It presents ideas about how to promote a deeper understanding of IKS within the arts, the development of IKS-arts research methodologies, and the protection and promotion of IKS in the arts. Knowledge, embedded in song, dance, folklore, design, architecture, theatre, and attire, and the visual arts can promote innovation and entrepreneurship, and it can improve communication. IKS, however, exists in a post-millennium, modernizing Africa. It is then the concept of post-Africanism that would induce one to think along the lines of a globalized, cosmopolitan and essentially modernized Africa. The book captures leading trends and ideas that could help to protect, promote, develop and affirm indigenous knowledge and systems, whilst also making room for ideas that do not necessarily oppose IKS, but encourage the modernization (not Westernization) of Africa.

Author : M. Muiu,G. Martin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230618312

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A New Paradigm of the African State by M. Muiu,G. Martin Pdf

Offers a historical, multidisciplinary perspective on African political systems and institutions, ranging from Antiquity (Egypt, Kush and Axum) to the present with particular focus on their destruction through successive exogenous processes including the Atlantic slave trade, imperialism, colonialism and neo-colonialism or globalization.

Author : Paul Clough
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782382713

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Morality and Economic Growth in Rural West Africa by Paul Clough Pdf

The land, labor, credit, and trading institutions of Marmara village, in Hausaland, northern Nigeria, are detailed in this study through fieldwork conducted in two national economic cycles - the petroleum-boom prosperity (in 1977-1979), and the macro-economic decline (in 1985, 1996 and 1998). The book unveils a new paradigm of economic change in the West African savannah, demonstrating how rural accumulation in a polygynous society actually limits the extent of inequality while at the same time promoting technical change. A uniquely African non-capitalist trajectory of accumulation subordinates the acquisition of capital to the expansion of polygynous families, clientage networks, and circles of trading friends. The whole trajectory is driven by an indigenous ethics of personal responsibility. This model disputes the validity of both Marxian theories of capitalist transformation in Africa and the New Institutional Economics.

Author : L. H. Gann,Peter Duignan
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 748 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : History
ISBN : 0521086418

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Colonialism in Africa 1870-1960: Volume 4 by L. H. Gann,Peter Duignan Pdf

A comprehensive study of recent African history, examining the political, social, and economic effects of colonialism.

Author : John Parker,Richard (Honorary Professor of History Rathbone, University of Aberystwyth),Richard Rathbone
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2007-03-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192802484

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African History: A Very Short Introduction by John Parker,Richard (Honorary Professor of History Rathbone, University of Aberystwyth),Richard Rathbone Pdf

Intended for those interested in the African continent and the diversity of human history, this work looks at Africa's past and reflects on the changing ways it has been imagined and represented. It illustrates key themes in modern thinking about Africa's history with a range of historical examples.

Author : Albert Kwokwo Barume,IWGIA,International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Indigenous peoples
ISBN : 8792786405

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Land Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Africa by Albert Kwokwo Barume,IWGIA,International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs Pdf