Sàngó In Africa And The African Diaspora

Author : Joel E. Tishken,Toyin Falola,Akintunde Akinyemi
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253220943

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Sàngó in Africa and the African Diaspora by Joel E. Tishken,Toyin Falola,Akintunde Akinyemi Pdf

Sàngó in Africa and the African Diaspora is a multidisciplinary, transregional exploration of Sàngó religious traditions in West Africa and beyond. Sàngó—the Yoruba god of thunder and lightning—is a powerful, fearful deity who controls the forces of nature, but has not received the same attention as other Yoruba orishas. This volume considers the spread of polytheistic religious traditions from West Africa, the mythic Sàngó, the historical Sàngó, and syncretic traditions of Sàngó worship. Readers with an interest in the Yoruba and their religious cultures will find a diverse, complex, and comprehensive portrait of Sàngó worship in Africa and the African world.

Author : Toyin Falola
Publisher : University Rochester Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9781580464529

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The African Diaspora by Toyin Falola Pdf

The African diaspora is arguably the most important event in modern African history. From the fifteenth century to the present, millions of Africans have been dispersed -- many of them forcibly, others driven by economic need or political persecution--to other continents, creating large communities with African origins living outside their native lands. The majority of these communities are in North America. This historic displacement has meant that Africans are irrevocably connected to economic and political developments in the West and globally. Among the known legacies of the diaspora are slavery, colonialism, racism, poverty, and underdevelopment, yet the ways in which these same factors worked to spur the scattering of Africans are not fully understood -- by those who were part of this migration or by scholars, historians, and policymakers. In this definitive study of the diaspora in North America, Toyin Falola offers a causal history of the western dispersion of Africans and its effects on the modern world. Reengaging old and familiar debates and framing new ones that enrich the discourse surrounding Africa, Falola isolates the thread, running nearly six centuries, that connects the history of slavery, the transatlantic slave trade, and current migrations. A boon to scholars and policymakers and accessible to the general reader, the book explores diverse narratives of migration and shows that the cultures that migrated from Africa to the Americas have the capacity to unite and create a new pan-Africanist movement within the globalized world. 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. He is the 2011 recipient of the Distinguished Africanist Award from the African Studies Association and serves as the vice president of the International Scientific Committee of the UNESCO Slave Route Project. His previous books published by the University of Rochester Press include The Power of African Cultures and Nationalism and African Intellectuals.

Author : Shihan de S. Jayasuriya,Richard Pankhurst
Publisher : Africa World Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 086543980X

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The African Diaspora in the Indian Ocean by Shihan de S. Jayasuriya,Richard Pankhurst Pdf

Although much has been written about the African Diaspora in the Atlantic Ocean, the Diaspora in the Indian Ocean is virtually unrecognised. Concerned with Africans who lived south of the Sahara and were dispersed by free will or forcefully to the non-African lands in the Indian Ocean region, this book deals with a topic that has been overlooked for too long. Eight scholars researching in distinct geographical areas and with interdisciplinary expertise offer a comprehensive and informative account of the Diaspora in the Indian Ocean.

Author : Edna G. Bay,Kristin Mann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135310738

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Rethinking the African Diaspora by Edna G. Bay,Kristin Mann Pdf

As a result of new research, we can now paint a more complex picture of peoples and cultures in the south Atlantic, from the earliest period of the slave trade up to the present. The nine papers in this volume indicate that a dynamic and continuous movement of peoples east as well as west across the Atlantic forged diverse and vibrant re-inventions and re-interpretations of the rich mix of cultures represented by Africans and peoples of African descent on both continents.

Author : E. Kofi Agorsah and G. Tucker Childs
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2005-12-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781452040141

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Africa and the African Diaspora by E. Kofi Agorsah and G. Tucker Childs Pdf

Africa and the African Diaspora is the outcome of a symposium held atPortland State University in Portland, Oregon (February 2002), entitled “Symposium on Freedom in Black History,” designed to celebrate Black History Month. The major themes of the conference were how Africans both at home on the continent and dispersed abroad, often by forces beyond their control, reacted to oppression and subjugation in seeking freedom from slavery, colonialism, and discrimination. The volume documents the many forms that oppression has taken, the many forms that resistance has taken, and the cultural developments that have allowed Africans to adapt to the new and changing economic, social and environmental conditions to win back their freedom. Oppressive strategies as divide-and-rule could be based on any one of a number of features, such as skin color, place of origin, culture, or social or economic status. People drawn into the vortex of the Atlantic trade and funneled into the sugar fields, the swampy rice lands or the cotton, coffee or tobacco plantations of the new world and elsewhere, had no alternative but to risk their lives for freedom. The plantation provided the context for the dehumanization of disadvantaged groups subjected to exhausting work, frequent punishment and personal injustice of every kind, This book demonstrates that the history and interpretation of these struggles of the oppressed peoples to free themselves have not received proportionate attention and analysis, as have other aspects of that history.

Author : Michael Kithinji,Ogechi Anyanwu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1792471572

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Africana World in Perspective by Michael Kithinji,Ogechi Anyanwu Pdf

Author : Toyin Falola,Cacee Hoyer
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134849475

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Human Rights, Race, and Resistance in Africa and the African Diaspora by Toyin Falola,Cacee Hoyer Pdf

Africans and their descendants have long been faced with abuse of their human rights, most frequently due to racism or racialized issues. Consequently, understanding shifting conceptualizations of race and identity is essential to understanding how people of color confronted these encounters. This book addresses these issues and their connections to social justice, discrimination, and equality movements. From colonial abuses or their legacies, black people around the world have historically encountered discrimination, and yet they do not experience injustice opaquely. The chapters in this book explore and clarify how Africans, and their descendants, struggled to achieve agency despite long histories of discrimination. Contributors draw upon a range of case studies related to resistance, and examine these in conjunction with human rights and the concept of race to provide a thorough exploration of the diasporic experience. Human Rights, Race, and Resistance in Africa and the African Diaspora will appeal to students and scholars of Ethnic and Racial Studies, African History, and Diaspora Studies.

Author : Judith Ann-Marie Byfield,LaRay Denzer,Anthea Morrison
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : African diaspora
ISBN : 9780253354167

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Gendering the African Diaspora by Judith Ann-Marie Byfield,LaRay Denzer,Anthea Morrison Pdf

"This volume builds on and extends current discussions of the construction of gendered identities and the networks through which men and women engage diaspora. It considers the movement of people and ideas between the Caribbean and the Nigerian hinterland. The contributions examine Africa in the Caribbean imaginary, the way in which gender ideologies inform Caribbean men's and women's theoretical or real-life engagement with the continent, and the interactions and experiences of Caribbean travelers in Africa and Europe. The contributions are linked as well through empire, discussing different parts of the British Empire and allowing for the comparative examination of colonial policies and practices."--Back cover.

Author : Isidore Okpewho,Carole Boyce Davies,Ali AlʼAmin Mazrui
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 025333425X

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The African Diaspora by Isidore Okpewho,Carole Boyce Davies,Ali AlʼAmin Mazrui Pdf

* How black people established their identities in the African diaspora.

Author : Kithinji
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1753
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1792435932

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African World in Perspective: An Introduction to Africa and the African Diaspora by Kithinji Pdf

Author : Linda M. Heywood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0521002788

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Central Africans and Cultural Transformations in the American Diaspora by Linda M. Heywood Pdf

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Author : Charles Quist-Adade,Wendy Royal
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443898324

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Re-engaging the African Diasporas by Charles Quist-Adade,Wendy Royal Pdf

Re-engaging the African Diasporas: Pan-Africanism in the Age of Globalization is the second volume in the Kwame Nkrumah International Conference series, and brings together twenty selected papers presented at the Third Kwame Nkrumah International Conference held at Kwantlen Polytechnic University on August 19-21, 2014. Two premises inform this volume: (1) If the history of slavery and its vestiges divided and continue to divide the continent and its Diasporas, modern technology should be harnessed to bridge that divide, and (2) the continent’s development is a boon to the development of what the African Union has dubbed Africa’s “Sixth Region”. The book threads together papers that seek to give academic and intellectual impetus to tie the continent’s development to that of the African Diaspora. The goal is to end the inertia and inward-looking on the part of scholars and academics in both Africa and “African International” or “Global Africa,” and re-engage one another in more productive ways. By harnessing the enormous resources available in our internet age and riding the cresting wave of globalization, the task of re-engagement will be vastly enhanced, and the debates and discussions in this volume will serve to facilitate this re-engagement. A main highlight of the conference was a special tribute to Nelson Mandela to honour his death in December, 2013 and celebrate 20 years of South African independence. In these papers, scholars examine Mandela’s role in the transition of South Africa from a racist state to a democratic nation. They critically examine how the ANC’s policies have impacted post-Apartheid South Africa and question what alternatives remain for the future.

Author : Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya,Jean-Pierre Angenot
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2008-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047431718

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Uncovering the History of Africans in Asia by Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya,Jean-Pierre Angenot Pdf

Study of the African diaspora is now a dynamic field in the development of new methods and approaches to African history. This book brings together the latest research on African diaspora in Asia with case studies about India and the Indian Ocean islands.

Author : Jay B Haviser,Kevin C MacDonald
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315435367

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African Re-Genesis by Jay B Haviser,Kevin C MacDonald Pdf

Ripped from motherland and family, ethnically mixed to quell the potential of uprisings, and brutalized by regimes of hard labor, the heart - the spirit - of Africa did not stop beating in the New World. Rather, it survived and has re-emerged; changed by contacts with new cultures and environments, but still part of the continuum of African tradition: an African Re-Genesis. This is the first volume in its field to emphasize the interdisciplinary temporal and geographic comparative research of Archaeology, Anthropology, History and Linguistics to allow us to form unique perspectives on broader trends in the transformation and (re-) emergence of African Diaspora cultures. African Re-Genesis confirms that regardless of discipline, from continental Africa to Europe, the Western Hemisphere and Indian Ocean, all Diaspora research requires a relevance to modern communities and sensitivity to the interplay with contemporary cultural identities. Matters concerning race and cultural diversity, though ostensibly de-fused by the vocabulary of political correctness, remain contentious. Indeed, the topic of racial relations has become to the twenty-first century what sex was to the nineteenth century - something best not discussed in public, and better talked around than confronted directly. African Re-Genesis strikes at the nerve of urgency that the past, present and future globalization of African cultures, is a cornerstone of the entire human experience, and it thus deserves recognition as such.

Author : Jamaine M. Abidogun,Sterling Recker
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030734152

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Africa and the Diaspora by Jamaine M. Abidogun,Sterling Recker Pdf

This edited volume presents intersectionality in its various configurations and interconnections across the African continent and around the world as a concept. These chapters identify and discuss intersectionalities of identity and their interplay within precolonial, colonial, and neo-colonial constructs that develop unique and often conflicting interconnections. Scholars in this book address issues in cultural, feminist, Pan African, and postcolonial studies from interdisciplinary and traditional disciplines, including the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences. While Intersectionality as a framework for race, gender, and class is often applied in African-American studies, there is a dearth of work in its application to Africa and the Diaspora. This book presents a diverse set of chapters that compare, contrast, and complicate identity constructions within Africa and the Diaspora utilizing the social sciences, the arts in film and fashion, and political economies to analyze and highlight often invisible distinctions of African identity and the resulting lived experiences. These chapters provide a discussion of intersectionality’s role in understanding Africa and the Diaspora and the intricate interconnections across its people, places, history, present, and future.