Living In Africa

Author : Jan Vansina
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0299143244

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Living with Africa by Jan Vansina Pdf

In 1952, a young Belgian scholar of European medieval history traveled to the Belgian Congo (now Zaire) to live in a remote Kuba village. Armed with a smattering of training in African cultures and language, Jan Vansina was sent to do fieldwork for a Belgian cultural agency. As it turned out, he would help found the field of African history, with a handful of other European and African scholars. "I'm not an ethnologist, I'm a historian!" Vansina was to repeat again and again to those who assumed that people without written texts have no history. His discovery that he could analyze Kuba oral tradition using the same methods he had learned for interpreting medieval dirges was a historiographical breakthrough, and his first book, Oral Tradition as History, is considered the seminal work that gave the study of precolonial African history both the scholarly justification and the self-confidence it had been lacking. Living with Africa is a compelling memoir of Vansina's life and career on three continents, interwoven with the story of African history as a scholarly specialty. In the background of his narrative are the collapse of colonialism in Africa and the emergence of newly independent nations; in the foreground are the first conferences on African history, the founding of journals and departments, and the efforts of Africans to establish a history curriculum for the schools in their new nations.

Author : Bloom Steve
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008-12-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0500514526

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Living Africa by Bloom Steve Pdf

This magnificent photographic survey is a personal tour through the length and breadth of Africa by one of the worlds leading nature and wildlife photographers. Steve Bloom achieves here a truly breathtaking intimacy not only with the continents extraordinary animal life and natural environment but also with its diverse peoples. His remit is staggeringly comprehensive: landscapes from desert to jungle, wildlife from insect to great game, and human life from remote tribal village to teeming metropolis. In a series of essays, Bloom combines vivid personal experience with a passionate articulation of the challenges faced by Africas people and environment in the 21st century. Everywhere is apparent his deep affection and affinity for the continent where he grew up, and to which he has felt compelled to return throughout his life. This luxury boxed gift edition of Living Africa features a limited edition Leopard print.

Author : Rashad McCrorey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798452136002

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Stuck in Africa by Rashad McCrorey Pdf

In the midst of a global pandemic, a Black American businessman in Africa face unexpected events. In March of 2020, Rashad McCrorey a native New Yorker, set off for a business trip to the West African country of Ghana. However; with a brand new pandemic quickly shutting down life as we knew it, McCrorey made the decision not to return home to United States and instead, self-quarantine in Ghana. A year and a half later, what started out as a temporary fix has turned into his "new normal."As seen on: CNN Forbes Magazine ABC World News TheGrio New York Daily News New York Post Black Enterprise Blavity Travel Noire & more Did You Know? Stuck in Africa takes place in the Central Region of Ghana specifically the towns of Elmina & Cape Coast; home of the infamous slave dungeons and doors of no returns. All locations mentioned in "Stuck in Africa" are real life locations; meaning as of August 2021 you can actually visit them. (Make sure to let them know you read Stuck in Africa). Stuck in Africa was originally written as a script for a movie to be filmed in Ghana. However, after some unfortunate circumstances, McCrorey re-wrote the script into the screenplay that you are about to purchase. All characters used in the are names of people McCrorey knows in real life. Though the characters are names of people McCrorey knows, the characters are not the actual people named except for McCrorey himself.

Author : Binyavanga Wainaina
Publisher : One World
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 46,5 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 : Wisdom Tettey,Korbla P. Puplampu
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9781552381755

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The African Diaspora in Canada by Wisdom Tettey,Korbla P. Puplampu Pdf

This book addresses the conceptual difficulties and political contestations surrounding the applicability of the term "African-Canadian". In the midst of this contested terrain, the volume focuses on first generation, Black Continental Africans who have immigrated to Canada in the last four decades, and have traceable genealogical links to the continent.

Author : Regina Gräff,Derryn Campbell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : South Africa
ISBN : 0620576561

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Living in South Africa by Regina Gräff,Derryn Campbell Pdf

Author : Klas Rönnbäck
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317222163

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Labour and Living Standards in Pre-Colonial West Africa by Klas Rönnbäck Pdf

Sub-Saharan Africa is the poorest region in the world. But its current status has skewed our understanding of the economy before colonization. Rönnbäck reconstructs the living standards of the population at a time when the Atlantic slave trade brought money and men into the area, enriching our understanding of West African economic development.

Author : Roger S. Levine
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300168594

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A Living Man from Africa by Roger S. Levine Pdf

Born into a Xhosa royal family around 1792 in South Africa, Jan Tzatzoe was destined to live in an era of profound change—one that witnessed the arrival and entrenchment of European colonialism. As a missionary, chief, and cultural intermediary on the eastern Cape frontier and in Cape Town and a traveler in Great Britain, Tzatzoe helped foster the merging of African and European worlds into a new South African reality. Yet, by the 1860s, despite his determined resistance, he was an oppressed subject of harsh British colonial rule. In this innovative, richly researched, and splendidly written biography, Roger S. Levine reclaims Tzatzoe's lost story and analyzes his contributions to, and experiences with, the turbulent colonial world to argue for the crucial role of Africans as agents of cultural and intellectual change.

Author : Marie Pierce Weber
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 146208446X

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Living in Africa by Marie Pierce Weber Pdf

Meet the unusual and interesting familes of Paula and Thomas Caulfield. Experience the melding of these diverse characters into a cohesive clan. Be an intimate part of their lives, sharing their bedroom conversations and personal feelings. The story spans the globe and takes the reader on a journey to uncommon places to hob-nob with distinctive people.

Author : Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-17
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780190628635

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CDC Yellow Book 2018: Health Information for International Travel by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC Pdf

THE ESSENTIAL WORK IN TRAVEL MEDICINE -- NOW COMPLETELY UPDATED FOR 2018 As unprecedented numbers of travelers cross international borders each day, the need for up-to-date, practical information about the health challenges posed by travel has never been greater. For both international travelers and the health professionals who care for them, the CDC Yellow Book 2018: Health Information for International Travel is the definitive guide to staying safe and healthy anywhere in the world. The fully revised and updated 2018 edition codifies the U.S. government's most current health guidelines and information for international travelers, including pretravel vaccine recommendations, destination-specific health advice, and easy-to-reference maps, tables, and charts. The 2018 Yellow Book also addresses the needs of specific types of travelers, with dedicated sections on: · Precautions for pregnant travelers, immunocompromised travelers, and travelers with disabilities · Special considerations for newly arrived adoptees, immigrants, and refugees · Practical tips for last-minute or resource-limited travelers · Advice for air crews, humanitarian workers, missionaries, and others who provide care and support overseas Authored by a team of the world's most esteemed travel medicine experts, the Yellow Book is an essential resource for travelers -- and the clinicians overseeing their care -- at home and abroad.

Author : Helen Tilley
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226803487

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Africa as a Living Laboratory by Helen Tilley Pdf

Tropical Africa was one of the last regions of the world to experience formal European colonialism, a process that coincided with the advent of a range of new scientific specialties and research methods. Africa as a Living Laboratory is a far-reaching study of the thorny relationship between imperialism and the role of scientific expertise—environmental, medical, racial, and anthropological—in the colonization of British Africa. A key source for Helen Tilley’s analysis is the African Research Survey, a project undertaken in the 1930s to explore how modern science was being applied to African problems. This project both embraced and recommended an interdisciplinary approach to research on Africa that, Tilley argues, underscored the heterogeneity of African environments and the interrelations among the problems being studied. While the aim of British colonialists was unquestionably to transform and modernize Africa, their efforts, Tilley contends, were often unexpectedly subverted by scientific concerns with the local and vernacular. Meticulously researched and gracefully argued, Africa as a Living Laboratory transforms our understanding of imperial history, colonial development, and the role science played in both.

Author : Chloe Perkins
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781481470940

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Living in . . . South Africa by Chloe Perkins Pdf

Discover what it’s like to grow up in South Africa with this fascinating, nonfiction Level 2 Ready-to-Read, part of a series all about kids just like you in countries around the world! Dumela! My name is David, and I’m a kid just like you living in South Africa. South Africa is a country filled with stunning cities, amazing animals, and many different cultures—that’s why they call South Africa the rainbow nation! Have you ever wondered what South Africa is like? Come along with me to find out! Each book in our Living in… series is narrated by a kid growing up in their home country and is filled with fresh, modern illustrations as well as loads of history, geography, and cultural goodies that fit perfectly into Common Core standards. Join kids from all over the world on a globe-trotting adventure with the Living in… series—sure to be a hit with children, parents, educators, and librarians alike!

Author : Barry Lovegrove
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1775847047

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The Living Deserts of Southern Africa by Barry Lovegrove Pdf

Divided into ten chapters, The Living Deserts of Southern Africa details the biology of desert plants (biggest desert biodiversity hotspot in the world) and animals and discusses their conservation and future threats.

Author : Ray Ofoegbu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Africa
ISBN : PSU:000005072712

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Living Together in Africa by Ray Ofoegbu Pdf

Author : Laurence Douny
Publisher : Left Coast Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-31
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781611328912

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Living in a Landscape of Scarcity by Laurence Douny Pdf

In her close ethnography of a Dogon village of Mali, Laurence Douny shows how a microcosmology develops from people's embodied daily and ritual practice in a landscape of scarcity. Viewed through the lens of containment practice, she describes how they cope with the shortage of material items central to their lives—water, earth, and millet. Douny’s study is an important addition to ecological anthropology, to the study of West African cultures, to the understanding of material culture, and to anthropological theory.