Returning Home Ain T Easy But It Sure Is A Blessing

Author : Seestah Imahk S.,Seestah Imahküs
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781425147631

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Returning Home Ain't Easy But It Sure Is a Blessing by Seestah Imahk S.,Seestah Imahküs Pdf

"Returning Home Ain't Easy But it Sure Is A Blessing" is a very moving and penetrating work that every African whether he or she intends on repatriating to Africa or not, should read. It is an "invaluable guide" to all Africans who are desperately trying to make their way back home. To re-locate is not a simple matter. It requires a determination to succeed, a firm faith in God the Almighty and patience to learn and re-learn. The power of this book prepares a plan for those wanting to return home to re-acquaint themselves with the land of their Afrikan ancestors. This book shows wisdom, extreme sensibility, and sense of humor necessary to help one to re-settle and make their home in Ghana or anywhere in Africa for that matter. The discourse also includes Ghanaian law as it relates to the subject of Dual Citizenship and The Right of Abode for Afrikans born in the Diaspora. This book can help those who may choose to walk the path of "Return", but should also be read by those who do not intend to re-locate as it is a book, which imparts valuable information about a country in Africa, one of the countries that many African-Americans repatriate to...Ghana. Her straightforward choice of words makes for an admirable, enjoyable, serious and commendable read.

Author : Seestah Imahküs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 9988808909

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Returning Home Ain't Easy But it Sure is a Blessing! by Seestah Imahküs Pdf

The true story of the return of a woman and her husband to their ancestral homeland.

Author : Godfrey Mwakikagile
Publisher : New Africa Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789987930852

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Africans and African Americans by Godfrey Mwakikagile Pdf

The nature of complex relations between Africans and African Americans is the focus of this study. The author looks at the factors which are responsible for this complex nature and which collectively constitute a major obstacle to the improvement of relations between the two groups. He also looks at the prospects and challenges in the quest for solidarity between Africans and African Americans which has remained elusive despite concerted efforts by a number of individuals and a few organisations on both sides through the years to bring the two "peoples" closer. He also examines the nature of the relationship - not just of the relations - between Africans and African Americans. The nature of this relationship goes beyond a shared complexion and the author looks at the profound differences between the two groups across the spectrum which continue to complicate relations between them and even keep them apart.

Author : Kwasi Konadu,Clifford C. Campbell
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-29
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780822374961

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The Ghana Reader by Kwasi Konadu,Clifford C. Campbell Pdf

Covering 500 years of Ghana's history, The Ghana Reader provides a multitude of historical, political, and cultural perspectives on this iconic African nation. Whether discussing the Asante kingdom and the Gold Coast's importance to European commerce and transatlantic slaving, Ghana's brief period under British colonial rule, or the emergence of its modern democracy, the volume's eighty selections emphasize Ghana's enormous symbolic and pragmatic value to global relations. They also demonstrate that the path to fully understanding Ghana requires acknowledging its ethnic and cultural diversity and listening to its population's varied voices. Readers will encounter selections written by everyone from farmers, traders, and the clergy to intellectuals, politicians, musicians, and foreign travelers. With sources including historical documents, poems, treaties, articles, and fiction, The Ghana Reader conveys the multiple and intersecting histories of Ghana's development as a nation, its key contribution to the formation of the African diaspora, and its increasingly important role in the economy and politics of the twenty-first century.

Author : W. E. A. van Beek,Annette M. Schmidt
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781847010490

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African Hosts & Their Guests by W. E. A. van Beek,Annette M. Schmidt Pdf

Africa is a 'theme park' for Western tourists to experience untouched wilderness, untamed nature, and truly 'authentic' cultures, where the hosts, too, are part of a discourse about the 'other' and ourselves, about wildness, danger and roots. Tourism is important for Africa: international tourist arrivals to Africa continue to grow, income from tourism is crucial to national economies, and tourism investments are considered among the most profitable. This edited volumedeals with the interaction of local communities with tourists coming into their areas and villages. Based upon a common theoretical approach, fourteen cases of African tourism are discussed which involve direct contact between 'hosts' and 'guests'. The viewpoint throughout is from the side of the locals, establishing how the processes of interaction shape each small scale destination. Crucial in Africa is the fact that the large majority of tourism is game oriented and the interaction between locals and visitors is very much 'tainted' by this fact. Central is the notion of the tourist bubble - the infrastructure that is generated locally (and internationally) for hosting tourists, as it is this institutional interface that tends to impact on the local society and culture, not the tourists themselves directly. The examples come from all over Africa, from the Sahara to the Eastern Cape, and from Kenyato Ghana. All contributions are based upon original fieldwork. Walter van Beek is professor of anthropology at Tilburg University and Senior Researcher at the African Studies Centre, Leiden; Annette Schmidt is curatorof the African department at the National Museum of Ethnology in Leiden, and is an archaeologist with a long experience in cultural management projects.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Intercontinental Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Ghana and Its people by Anonim Pdf

Author : Benedetta Rossi
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781846315640

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Reconfiguring Slavery by Benedetta Rossi Pdf

A fascinating collection that advances a renewed conceptual framework for understanding slavery in West Africa today: instead of retracing the end of West African slavery, this work highlights the preliminary contours of its recent reconfigurations.

Author : Godfrey Mwakikagile
Publisher : New Africa Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789987160501

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The People of Ghana by Godfrey Mwakikagile Pdf

This is a general survey of Ghana and its people. Subjects covered include the country's regions and their people; Ghana's identity as a nation and how it faced challenges to national unity during the struggle for independence; the nature of the post-colonial state; the asymmetrical relationship between the north and the south rooted in the colonial era, a structural imbalance which continues to have a negative impact on the wellbeing of northerners and which could perpetuate inequalities between the two parts of the country; Ghana's place in the Pan-African world because of the leadership provided by the country's first prime minister – later president – Kwame Nkrumah; and its success in forging unity on the anvil of diversity. Among the people the author has covered include an African American community whose members were given some land in the Volta Region in the eastern part of the country for permanent settlement of the descendants of African slaves who want to return to the motherland. He describes it as a distinct ethnic group with the same attributes indigenous groups have and which they use to identify themselves as ethnic entities. The community has acquired an identity of its own and qualifies as an ethnic group because its members have a common history, language and culture as diasporans who lost their African identity under white domination in the United States and were forced to adopt a Euro-American culture and the English language. The author was closely associated with the founders of the African American community in Ghana, known as Fihankra, when he was a student in the United States and has written about them in some of his works including his autobiography, “My Life as an African.” Members of the general public and students may find this work to be useful if they want to learn some facts about Ghana, the first country in sub-Saharan Africa to win independence.

Author : Godfrey Mwakikagile
Publisher : New Africa Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Relations Between Africans and African Americans: Misconceptions, Myths and Realities by Godfrey Mwakikagile Pdf

The author looks at relations between Africans and African Americans and how they see each other. There are a lot of misconceptions which have an impact on how Africans and African Americans interact, with the media playing a major role in perpetuating myths about both.

Author : Toyin Falola,Kwame Essien
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135005191

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Pan-Africanism, and the Politics of African Citizenship and Identity by Toyin Falola,Kwame Essien Pdf

There is no recent literature that underscores the transition from Pan-Africanism to Diaspora discourse. This book examines the gradual shift and four major transformations in the study of Pan-Africanism. It offers an "academic post-mortem" that seeks to gauge the extent to which Pan-Africanism overlaps with the study of the African Diaspora and reverse migrations; how Diaspora studies has penetrated various disciplines while Pan-Africanism is located on the periphery of the field. The book argues that the gradual shift from Pan-African discourses has created a new pathway for engaging Pan-African ideology from academic and social perspectives. Also, the book raises questions about the recent political waves that have swept across North Africa and their implications to the study of twenty-first century Pan-African solidarity on the African continent. The ways in which African institutions are attracting and mobilizing returnees and Pan-Africanists with incentives as dual-citizenship for diasporans to support reforms in Africa offers a new alternative approach for exploring Pan-African ideology in the twenty-first century. Returnees are also using these incentives to gain economic and cultural advantage. The book will appeal to policy makers, government institutions, research libraries, undergraduate and graduate students, and scholars from many different disciplines.

Author : Michelle D. Commander
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822373308

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Afro-Atlantic Flight by Michelle D. Commander Pdf

In Afro-Atlantic Flight Michelle D. Commander traces how post-civil rights Black American artists, intellectuals, and travelers envision literal and figurative flight back to Africa as a means by which to heal the dispossession caused by the slave trade. Through ethnographic, historical, literary, and filmic analyses, Commander shows the ways that cultural producers such as Octavia Butler, Thomas Allen Harris, and Saidiya Hartman engage with speculative thought about slavery, the spiritual realm, and Africa, thereby structuring the imaginary that propels future return flights. She goes on to examine Black Americans’ cultural heritage tourism in and migration to Ghana; Bahia, Brazil; and various sites of slavery in the US South to interrogate the ways that a cadre of actors produces “Africa” and contests master narratives. Compellingly, these material flights do not always satisfy Black Americans’ individualistic desires for homecoming and liberation, leading Commander to focus on the revolutionary possibilities inherent in psychic speculative returns and to argue for the development of a Pan-Africanist stance that works to more effectively address the contemporary resonances of slavery that exist across the Afro-Atlantic.

Author : Carolin Lusby
Publisher : Common Ground Research Networks
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781863352369

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Destination Unknown by Carolin Lusby Pdf

Tourism: the good, the bad and the ugly. As one of the biggest industries in the world, tourism contributed ten percent of the world’s GDP before the pandemic brought it to an historic standstill. Hailed as a smokeless industry, it was seen as a tool for development by serving as an income and job creator. The industry was expanding in oftentimes uncontrolled forms, reaching over one billion international travelers before the virus halted all travel. This edited volume highlights the issues the industry faces, including impacts on the environment, culture, and residents. As the industry rebounds post-pandemic, this book gives space to imagine a more equitable and ethical industry. Bringing together expert authors from around the world, contributions highlight possible ways the industry can be developed more beneficially for people and planet. From nature-based tourism in Africa which protects natural resources by involving local communities and offering cultural interpretation; to vernacular design of tourism buildings and ecolodges that honors and celebrates the local; to considering ways in which cruise ship tourism can offer meaningful encounters instead of contributing to overtourism; to taking a hard look at volunteer tourism and the ways in which it inadvertently prioritizes profit and traveler needs over the needs of local communities, and how it can be developed more ethically; to examining tourism as a tool to increase interculturalism and intercultural understanding; and to the sensitive issue of ethnic tourism to discover one’s roots and identify and aid in community development. This book celebrates the ways in which tourism brings us together and can add to our personal and planetary well-being by consciously choosing the ways we travel and how we develop travel opportunities.

Author : Alusine Jalloh,Toyin Falola
Publisher : University Rochester Press
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 1580463088

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The United States and West Africa by Alusine Jalloh,Toyin Falola Pdf

The first volume devoted to interrogating the complex relationship -- both historic and contemporary -- between the United States and West Africa. Over the last several decades, historians have conducted extensive research into contact between the United States and West Africa during the era of the transatlantic trade. Yet we still understand relatively little about more recent relations between the two areas. This multidisciplinary volume presents the most comprehensive analysis of the U.S.-West African relationship to date, filling a significant gap in the literature by examining the social, cultural, political, and economic bonds that have, in recent years, drawn these two world regions into increasingly closer contact. Beginning with examinations of factors that linked the nations during European colonial ruleof Africa, and spanning to discussions of U.S. foreign policy with regard to West Africa from the Cold War through the end of the twentieth century and beyond, these essays constitute the first volume devoted to interrogating thecomplex relationship -- both historic and contemporary -- between the United States and West Africa. Contributors: Abdul Karim Bangura, Karen B. Bell, Peter A. Dumbuya, Kwame Essien, Andrew I. E. Ewoh, Toyin Falola, Osman Gbla, John Wess Grant, Stephen A. Harmon, Harold R. Harris, Olawale Ismail, Alusine Jalloh, Fred L. Johnson III, Stephen Kandeh, Ibrahim Kargbo, Bayo Lawal, Ayodeji Olukoju, Adebayo Oyebade, Christopher Ruane, Anita Spring, Ibrahim Sundiata, Hakeem Ibikunle Tijani, Ken Vincent, and Amanda Warnock. Alusine Jalloh is associate professor of history and founding director of The Africa Program at the University of Texas at Arlington. Toyin Falola is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin.

Author : James Anquandah,Michel Doortmont,Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015077119447

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The Transatlantic Slave Trade by James Anquandah,Michel Doortmont,Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang Pdf

Unesco celebrated 2004 as the international year to commemorate the struggle against slavery and its abolition. The Ghanaian Government's National Slave Route Project Committee held an international conference on transatlantic slave as part of that initiative. These papers are largely the proceedings of that conference, with the inclusion of a few papers from the National Conference on the Slave Trade in 2003. Supported by the Netherlands Embassy, Unesco, and an individual benefactor, the conference brought together over 400 people: Government Ministers, Unesco and diplomatic representatives, and scholars from Africa, the Caribbean, Australia, Europe and the USA. Twenty-nine papers and statements are included. The book is divided into opening statements, followed by papers on three main themes: landmarks, legacies and expectations.

Author : Alice Fryling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0830816291

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Reshaping a Jealous Heart by Alice Fryling Pdf

Alice Fryling's practical, biblical advice for beating the green monster of the heart (illustrated by the candid stories of her own battle and followed up with study and discussion questions for readers) addresses anger, ambition, fear and covetousness, and much more. A Saltshaker(R) book. 144 pages, paper