The Spirit Of Resistance In Music And Spoken Word Of South Africa S Eastern Cape

Author : Lindsay Michie
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781498576215

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The Spirit of Resistance in Music and Spoken Word of South Africa's Eastern Cape by Lindsay Michie Pdf

From an array of prominent activists including Nelson Mandela and Steve Biko to renowned performers and oral poets such as Johnny Dyani and Samuel Mqhayi, the Eastern Cape region plays a unique role in the history of South African protest politics and creativity. The Spirit of Resistance in Music and Spoken Word of South Africa's Eastern Cape concentrates on the Eastern Cape's contribution to the larger narrative of the connection between creativity, mass movements, and the forging of a modern African identity and focuses largely on the amaXhosa population. Lindsay Michie explores Eastern Cape performance artists, activists, organizations, and movements that used inventive and historical means to raise awareness of their plight and brought pressure to bear on the authorities and systems that caused it, all the while exhibiting the depth, originality, and inspiration of their culture.

Author : John Campbell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442265905

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Morning in South Africa by John Campbell Pdf

This incisive, deeply informed book introduces post-apartheid South Africa to an international audience. South Africa has a history of racism and white supremacy. This crushing historical burden continues to resonate today. Under President Jacob Zuma, South Africa is treading water. Nevertheless, despite calls to undermine the 1994 political settlement characterized by human rights guarantees and the rule of law, distinguished diplomat John Campbell argues that the country’s future is bright and that its democratic institutions will weather its current lackluster governance. The book opens with an overview to orient readers to South Africa’s historical inheritance. A look back at the presidential inaugurations of Nelson Mandela and Jacob Zuma and Mandela’s funeral illustrates some of the ways South Africa has indeed changed since 1994. Reviewing current demographic trends, Campbell highlights the persistent consequences of apartheid. He goes on to consider education, health, and current political developments, including land reform, with an eye on how South Africa’s democracy is responding to associated thorny challenges. The book ends with an assessment of why prospects are currently poor for closer South African ties with the West. Campbell concludes, though, that South Africa’s democracy has been surprisingly adaptable, and that despite intractable problems, the black majority are no longer strangers in their own country.

Author : Christopher Saunders,Peter Limb
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 567 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781538130261

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Historical Dictionary of South Africa by Christopher Saunders,Peter Limb Pdf

As the most influential and powerful country on the entire continent of Africa, an understanding of South Africa’s past and its present trends is crucial in appreciating where South Africans are going to, and from where they have come. South Africa changed dramatically in 1994 when apartheid was dismantled, and it became a democratic state. Since 2000, when the previous edition appeared, further big changes occurred, with the rise of new political leaders and of a new black middle class. There were also serious problems in governance, in public health, and the economy, but with a remarkable popular resilience too. This third edition of Historical Dictionary of South Africa contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 600 cross-referenced entries on important personalities as well as aspects of the country’s politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about South Africa.

Author : Lindsay Michie Eades,Lindsay Michie
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1996-09-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015038132257

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Portrait of an Appeaser by Lindsay Michie Eades,Lindsay Michie Pdf

Studies an appeaser and his thinking in the 1930s.

Author : Lawrence Rupley,Lamissa Bangali,Boureima Diamitani
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780810880108

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Historical Dictionary of Burkina Faso by Lawrence Rupley,Lamissa Bangali,Boureima Diamitani Pdf

Burkina Faso, known as Upper Volta until its independence from France in 1960, and locally called the “land of the upright people,” is a medium-sized land-locked country with no less than six neighbors, some of which periodically get into trouble… which makes it reasonably strategic in some ways. While it has not done as poorly as some other African states, its economic has certainly not prospered and many Burkinabe go abroad to earn a living. As for politics, it is another case of stability without democracy, even if there are periodic elections. Still, this is better than not even having stability. This third edition of Historical Dictionary of Burkina Faso covers its history through a chronology, an introductory essay, maps, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1000 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Burkina Faso.

Author : Hazel Crampton
Publisher : Jacana Media
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 1919931929

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The Sunburnt Queen by Hazel Crampton Pdf

A seven-year-old English girl, washed up on the Wild Coast in about 1736, is adopted by the amaMpondo, grows up to become a woman of surpassing beauty, marries the chief of the clan and becomes an ancestor of many of the Xhosa royal families.

Author : Lindsay Michie Eades
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1999-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015047471241

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The End of Apartheid in South Africa by Lindsay Michie Eades Pdf

Essays exploring the history and politics of South Africa cover racial separation, domestic resistance, economic sanctions, and the challenges of democracy .

Author : Jane Davis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015040658802

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South Africa by Jane Davis Pdf

South Africa: A Botched Civilization? examines how South African novelists, both Black and white, portray the impact of racial conflict on the identities of both the oppressed and the oppressor. This book gives an in-depth analysis of several major authors and focuses on prejudice and its consequences. The discussion of racism and identity is of central importance to the history and the present of South Africa. While the book focuses on literature of the era of segregation and of apartheid, the analysis of the novels reveals barriers to past, present, and future racial progress in South Africa.

Author : Daniel Teferra
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114239846

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Economic Development and Nation Building in Ethiopia by Daniel Teferra Pdf

Ethiopia is an ancient country with rich potential, but it has not yet resolved the fundamental question of economic development and nation building. The Ethiopian population lives under the threat of recurring famine and war. The conflict that existed between Ethiopia and Eritrea for several decades was never resolved peacefully, and a new conflict has recently emerged on top of the old. Economic Development and Nation Building in Ethiopia gives valuable insight into these problems. The book first checks the major views of development with the Ethiopian experience and examines the impact of the IMF program and the Post-Cold War globalization on the Ethiopian development. Showing the historical disparities in development between Ethiopia and the now industrialized societies of the world, the book examines the possibilities for Ethiopian economic development and nation building. Author Daniel Teferra investigates the incentives for a shared market and broader democracy between Ethiopia and Eritrea by taking a closer, more focused look at the two societies.

Author : Aisha Karim,Lee Sustar
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1931859221

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Poetry & Protest by Aisha Karim,Lee Sustar Pdf

A vital original collection of the interviews, poetry, and essays of the much-loved anti-apartheid leader.

Author : Denis Martin
Publisher : African Minds
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781920489823

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Sounding the Cape by Denis Martin Pdf

For several centuries Cape Town has accommodated a great variety of musical genres which have usually been associated with specific population groups living in and around the city. Musical styles and genres produced in Cape Town have therefore been assigned an "identity" which is first and foremost social. This volume tries to question the relationship established between musical styles and genres, and social - in this case pseudo-racial - identities. In Sounding the Cape, Denis-Constant Martin recomposes and examines through the theoretical prism of creolisation the history of music in Cape Town, deploying analytical tools borrowed from the most recent studies of identity configurations. He demonstrates that musical creation in the Mother City, and in South Africa, has always been nurtured by contacts, exchanges and innovations whatever the efforts made by racist powers to separate and divide people according to their origin. Musicians interviewed at the dawn of the 21st century confirm that mixture and blending characterise all Cape Town's musics. They also emphasise the importance of a rhythmic pattern particular to Cape Town, the ghoema beat, whose origins are obviously mixed. The study of music demonstrates that the history of Cape Town, and of South Africa as a whole, undeniably fostered creole societies. Yet, twenty years after the collapse of apartheid, these societies are still divided along lines that combine economic factors and "racial" categorisations. Martin concludes that, were music given a greater importance in educational and cultural policies, it could contribute to fighting these divisions and promote the notion of a nation that, in spite of the violence of racism and apartheid, has managed to invent a unique common culture.

Author : Angus Stevenson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 2093 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-19
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780199571123

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Oxford Dictionary of English by Angus Stevenson Pdf

The Oxford Dictionary of English offers authoritative and in-depth coverage of over 350,000 words, phrases, and meanings. The foremost single-volume authority on the English language.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 682 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Middle East
ISBN : IND:30000081083713

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The Middle East, Abstracts and Index by Anonim Pdf

Author : Yvette Nolan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1770911324

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The Unplugging by Yvette Nolan Pdf

In this tale of survival, two women are exiled from their post-apocalyptic village because they have passed their child-bearing years.

Author : Mputhumi Ntabeni
Publisher : Blackbird Books
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781928337744

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Broken River Tent by Mputhumi Ntabeni Pdf

The Broken River Tent is a novel that marries imagination with history. It is about the life and times of Maqoma, the Xhosa chief who was at the forefront of fighting British colonialism in the Eastern Cape during the nineteenth century. The story is told through the eyes of a young South African, Phila, who suffers from what he calls triple 'N' condition--neurasthenia, narcolepsy and cultural ne plus ultra. This makes him feel far removed from events happening around him but gives him access to the analeptic memory of his people. After being under immense mental pressure, he crosses the mental divide between the living and the dead and is visited by Maqoma. They engage in different conversations about cultural history, literature, religion, the past and contemporary South African life.