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Author : Vincent Khapoya
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317343585
This book examines the role that Africa has played on the world stage, the African Union, the African leaders' efforts to take care of their own problems and lessen their dependence on the United States and European countries.
Author : Roland Oliver
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Art
ISBN : UVA:X002214273
Covering the entire span of human history across the African continent, this book begins in the Garden of Eden in the highland interior of East Africa and ends with the disintegration of apartheid. In the first chapter the author introduces us to our earliest tool-making ancestor (known affectionately as "dear boy"), in the last the author ponders the changes we are likely to see as the political elites of Africa begin to review the operation of their single-party systems. The human colonization of the continent - the origins of food production, the formation and diffusion of African languages, the achievements of Ancient Egypt, the impact of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, slavery, the caravan trade, exploration and colonization, the economic, political and social developments which gave rise to the modern nation states - this book looks at all these aspects in an overview of the history of Africa.
Author : Roland Oliver
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429976506
This masterpiece of scholarship and compression, the second edition of The African Experience, covers the entire span of human history across the African continent, from the earliest emergence of hominids in eastern and southern Africa up to the present day. Drawing on more than forty years of teaching and research, Professor Oliver arranges the book thematically, beginning with the human colonization of the different regions of Africa, the origins of food production, and the formation of African languages.The achievements of Ancient Egypt are placed in context with the developments in the rest of the continent, and the spread of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - "peoples of the book." The tradition of urban settlement is traced, especially in western Africa, as well as the emergence of large and complex societies formed by the interaction of pastoralists and cultivators in eastern and southern Africa.The extent and nature of slavery in Africa is fully discussed, together with the external slave trade and the caravan trade in precolonial times. This leads to an analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of African political systems and why, from the early nineteenth century onwards, these systems were unable to withstand political pressure from abroad and the ensuing colonization. The colonial partition of Africa saw the rapid amalgamation of small units, through which considerable modernization was achieved at the expense of the indigenous structures and through the exploitation of the African peoples. Later chapters describe the birth of modern African nation-states, at a time of widespread belief in state planning - now being questioned as the political elites of black Africa begin to review their single-party systems. This new edition sees a number of revisions, including a new chapter on the 1990s, when the end of the Cold War left Africa free at last to try to solve its own problems.
Author : Vincent B. Khapoya
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:49015002815679
This book provides an introduction to Africa -- covering its physical attributes, history, social structure, and culture.It emphasizes norms, values, and historical experienceas the key variables that define who the people are, rather than labeling them as "tribes." Describes the main traditional cultural forms and institutionsfound in Africa. Explores the geographyand demographyof the African continent. Takes a critical look at how the Africans have done since they inherited or recovered political powerfrom the European colonial masters -- the problems they have encountered, the forces that have influenced leaders in their choice of strategies in nation-building or economic development, political and economic reforms.
Author : Colita Nichols Fairfax
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781476678085
The State of Virginia recognizes the 1619 landing of Africans at Point Comfort (present-day Hampton) as a complicated beginning. This collection of new essays reckons with this historical fact, with discussions of the impacts 400 years later. Chapters cover different perspectives about the "20 and odd" who landed, offering insights into how enslavement continues to affect the lives of their descendants. The often overlooked experiences of women in enslavement are discussed.
Author : Kwame Gyekye
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195112252
Gyekye offers a philosophical interpretation and critical analysis of the African cultural experience in modern times, and shows how Western philosophical concepts help in addressing a wide range of specifically African problems.
Author : John N. Paden,Edward W. Soja
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1130 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Africa
ISBN : PSU:000061420113
Author : Leslie B. Rout
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1976-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 052120805X
This text presents the broad historical contours of the African experience in Spanish America, from enslavement, resistance, and rebellion to the crucial participation of Afro-Latin Americans in the wars of independence, and a region-by-region account of their varied treatment in the newly-founded republics from the 19th century to the modern era.
Author : Abiola Irele
Publisher : London ; Exeter, N.H. : Heinemann
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : African literature
ISBN : 0435916319
Author : Wisdom Tettey,Korbla P. Puplampu
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9781552381755
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 : Caroline Sweetman
Publisher : Oxfam
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 085598421X
Contributors assert that women's contribution to global agricultural production for food and for profit continues to be largely unacknowledged and undervalued and that their ability to farm is constrained by lack of control over land, agricultural inputs, credit and other essential resources.
Author : Festus Ugboaja Ohaegbulam
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 0819179418
This introductory survey provides a rich understanding of the African experience which, until recently, either had been omitted from the curriculum of institutions of higher learning or was distorted in written and oral literature. The book identifies the post-World War II civil rights movement in America and the independence revolution in Africa as the most decisive forces that generated interest in the study of the African/black experience. Includes four theoretical models for interpreting the black experience. The author discusses the place and role of Africa in the development of human civilization, focusing on Africa's Nile Valley civilizations and Western Sudanic empires. It probes aspects of traditional African culture, including the family, traditional political institutions and religion, and analyzes the impact on Africa and its peoples of such historical traumas as slavery, colonialism, and decolonization.
Author : Neil A. Wynn
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442200173
Drawing on more than thirty years of teaching and research, Neil A. Wynn combines narrative history and primary sources as he locates the World War II years within the long-term struggle for African Americans' equal rights. It is now widely accepted that these years were crucial in the development of the emerging Civil Rights movement through the economic and social impact of the war, as well as the military service itself. Wynn examines the period within the broader context of the New Deal era of the 1930s and the Cold War of the 1950s, concluding that the war years were neither simply a continuation of earlier developments nor a prelude to later change. Rather, this period was characterized by an intense transformation of black hopes and expectations, encouraged by real socio-economic shifts and departures in federal policy. Black self consciousness at a national level found powerful expression in new movements, from the demand for equality in the military service to changes in the shop floor to the "Double V" campaign that linked the fight for democracy at home for the fight for democracy abroad. As the nation played a new world role in the developing Cold War, the tensions between America's stated beliefs and actual practices emphasized these issues and brought new forces into play. More than a half century later, this book presents a much-needed up-to-date, short and readable interpretation of existing scholarship. Accessible to general and student readers, it tells the story without jargon or theory while including the historiography and debate on particular issues.
Author : Christopher Changwe Nshimbi,Inocent Moyo,Jussi P. Laine
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000203394
This book examines the enduring significance of borders in Southern Africa, covering encounters between people, ideas and matter, and the new spatialities and transformations they generate in their historical, social, economic and cultural contexts. Situated within debates on borders, borderlands, sub- and regional integration, this volume examines local, grassroots and non-state actors and their cross-border economic and sociocultural encounters and contestations. Particular attention is also paid on the role they play in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region and its integration project in its multiplicity. The interdisciplinary chapters address the diverse human activities relating to cross-border economic and sociocultural encounters and contestations that are manifested through multiform and -scalar interactions between or among grassroots actors, involving engagements between grassroots actors and the state or its agencies, and/or to the broader arrangements that bear consequences of the first two upon regional integration. By bringing these different, at times contrasting, forms of interaction under a holistic analysis, this volume devises novel ways to understand the persistence and role of borders and their relation to new transnational and transcultural integrative phenomena at various levels, extending from the (nation-)state and the political to the cultural and social at the everyday level of border practices. Scholars and students of African studies, geography, economics, politics, sociology and border studies will find this book useful.
Author : Bruce Sinclair
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0262195046
The intersection of race and technology: blackcreativity and the economic and social functions of the myth ofdisengenuity.
