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Second Edition The jembe drum is one of the most popular percussion instruments in the world. This book will explore African drumming and dance before the jembe drum arrived in America. Drummers, dancers and enthusiasts who experienced the beginning of jembe music in America provided insight on how the jembe fueled a revolution. The energy of this book encouraged Jembefolas to reveal secret information they had never shared before. The author passionately aims for readers to recognize the African American pioneers who helped to spread the jembe revolution. JEMBE REVOLUTION is the first to congregate so many different voices in one publication to tell this story. This book will spark dialogue and open the way for more projects on the subject of the jembe drum.
Author : Nomi Dave Publisher : University of Chicago Press Page : 208 pages File Size : 51,7 Mb Release : 2019-10-02 Category : Social Science ISBN : 9780226654775
Music has long been an avenue for protest, seen as a way to promote freedom and equality, instill hope, and fight for change. Popular music, in particular, is considered to be an effective form of subversion and resistance under oppressive circumstances. But, as Nomi Dave shows us in The Revolution’s Echoes, the opposite is also true: music can often support, rather than challenge, the powers that be. Dave introduces readers to the music supporting the authoritarian regime of former Guinean president Sékou Touré, and the musicians who, even long after his death, have continued to praise dictators and avoid dissent. Dave shows that this isn’t just the result of state manipulation; even in the absence of coercion, musicians and their audiences take real pleasure in musical praise of leaders. Time and again, whether in traditional music or in newer genres such as rap, Guinean musicians have celebrated state power and authority. With The Revolution’s Echoes, Dave insists that we must grapple with the uncomfortable truth that some forms of music choose to support authoritarianism, generating new pleasures and new politics in the process.
The Green Revolution Revisited by Bernhard Glaeser Pdf
The Green Revolution – the apparently miraculous increase in cereal crop yields achieved in the 1960s – came under severe criticism in the 1970s because of its demands for optimal irrigation, intensive use of fertilisers and pesticides; its damaging impact on social structures; and its monoculture approach. The early 1980s saw a concerted approach to many of these criticisms under the auspices of Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). This book, first published in 1987, analyses the recent achievements of the CGIAR and examines the Green Revolution concept in South America, Asia and Africa, from an ‘ecodevelopment’ standpoint, with particular regard to the plight of the rural poor. The work is characterised by a concern for the ecological and social dimensions of agricultural development,which puts the emphasis on culturally compatible, labour absorbing and environmentally sustainable food production which will serve the long term needs of developing countries.
Author : James N. Karioki Publisher : Penn State University Press Page : 248 pages File Size : 46,9 Mb Release : 1979 Category : History ISBN : STANFORD:36105035548929
Tanzania's Human Revolution by James N. Karioki Pdf
In Tanzania, this book argues, the centrality of mankind is not a mere abstract ideal; it is embedded in the philosophy, policies, and programs of the nation. A major role of Tanzania's political leaders, especially Julius Nyerere, is to guarantee that the society and the state maintain a humane commitment. Tanzania's Human Revolution concludes that developments in this young African nation whether social, political, or economic--are understandable only in the context of its value system. The author thus takes issue with previous studies, particularly those focusing on mechanics and processes while overlooking a pervasive humanism. Tanzania's brand of democratic socialism emphasizes cooperative agricultural villages and mass education. Although foreign investments are permitted in Tanzania in a limited way, urbanization and heavy industry are discouraged until the achievement of Self-Reliance, the watchword of the country's one party, the Tanganyika African National Union. Schooling combines the practical with the liberal, and graduates of colleges or terminal secondary schools are required to work for two years in the rural areas. Political decisions often benefit from village and neighborhood deliberations before becoming regional and national policies. Tanzanian citizenship is open to all races, and both English and Kiswahili are official languages. About one-third of the population is Christian, the rest espousing either Islam or one of the indigenous religions. Nyerere epitomizes Tanzania's heterogeneity; the son of a tribal chief, he holds an Edinburgh MA, is a converted Roman Catholic, and takes pride in being a lifelong patriot. By its steadfast opposition to all forms of inhumanity including racism--together with its correct yet independent relations with all other countries including the United States and China--Tanzania has become a moral force in Africa and the world.
The Library Catalogs of the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, Stanford University by Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace Pdf
Revolution is a collection of eleven short stories that act as a vital bridge between the novels Exile and Liberty. But it is also so much more than that. Ejersbo had a remarkable and unaffected talent for getting inside the heads of his characters: Moses, a worker in a Tanzanite mine who lives in hope of striking it rich; Sofie, a Greenlander who joins a French conman on his trip around the world; Rachel, who tries to make a life for herself in a city where everyone sees her as a whore in waiting. You feel that Ejerbso could have written from the heart of every person living in Tanzania; and that you could go on reading them forever.
African Ethics by Jonathan O. Chimakonam,Luis Cordeiro-Rodrigues Pdf
This is the first comprehensive exploration of African ethics covering everything from normative ethics and applied ethics, to meta-ethics and methodology, as well as the history of its evolution. African Ethics provides an in-depth exploration of Ubuntu ethics which is defined as a set of values based on concepts such as reciprocity, mutual respect, and working towards the common good. Ubuntu ethics also strongly emphasize the place of human dignity. The book engages with both theory and practice and how these ethical ideas impact upon the actual lived experience of Africans. It also includes important political considerations such as the impact of imperialism, colonialism, and capitalism on African ethics as well as the negative impact of apartheid and the renaissance made possible by the 'The Truth and Reconciliation Commission' whose work was premised heavily on African ethical ideas. This book is not just a wide-ranging and incisive introduction but also a reformulation of key concepts and current debates in African ethics. Crucially, African Ethics is an inclusive text, one that speaks from an African perspective and contributes to the decolonizing of contemporary ethics.
Technology, Tradition and the State in Africa by Jack Goody Pdf
Originally published in 1971 this book argues that certain aspects of traditional African social systems have been misunderstood because of a failure to appreciate what is implied by important differences between the technologies of the major traditional African states and those of Europe and Asia. Differences in the modes of agricultural production were connected with differences in other aspects of the social system such as the relations between subjects and chiefs. This means that comparisons with the feudal systems of Western Europe or the monarchies of Asiatic states have definite limitations. Differences in technology not only affected not only the means of production but also of destruction. The importance of differential access to the means of domination is stressed as a critical factor in African political systems. This is an aspect which has been obscured in many studies that have relied largely on material gathered after the establishment of colonial rule.
Somono Bala of the Upper Niger by Daniel Harrington Pdf
The Somono are an ethnic group specialized in fishing on the river Niger. Somono Bala is an epic story. This is the first ever translation of this narritive from the Maninka language into English.