Narrative of Africa Rising

Changing Perspectives

AvDarlingtina K. Esiaka,Jamaine Abidogun

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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Beskrivning

Throughout time, African civilizations have manoeuvred and negotiated successfully to maintain their societies and ensure cultural continuity despite encountering expanding trade, foreign invasion, and imposition of colonial and neocolonial states. The Narrative of Africa Rising: Changing Perspectives evaluates the discourse on “Africa Rising” through representative case studies to create a complex and layered account of Africa’s struggles to rise above challenges and conflict in the twenty-first century. Using empirical data and field observations, editors Darlingtina K. Esiaka and Jamaine Abidogun measure Africa’s complex and uneven development over time to provide insight into how Africans across the continent utilize indigenous socio-political economic processes in the face of neocolonial “nation state” systems that routinely fail them. Africa’s twenty-first century rise is erratic as it struggles to undo the damage of colonialism and to fight neocolonial exploitation, but what stands the test of time are African civilizations’ sophisticated societal institutions that continue to vie for the wellbeing of their citizens.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-06-13
Mått:160 x 236 x 21 mm
Vikt:485 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Africa: Past, Present & Prospects
Antal sidor:192
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781666958515

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Darlingtina K. Esiaka is assistant professor in the Center for Health Equity Transformation and Department of Behavioral Sciences at the University of Kentucky.Jamaine Abidogun is professor emeritus in the History Department at Missouri State University.

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Telling it as it deserves to be told: no embellishments, no diplomatic language, no half-truths, and no taking sides, The Narrative of Africa Rising: Changing Perspectives edited by Darlingtina K. Esiaka and Jamaine Abidogun has provided us with one of the best ways to tell the world about Africa, giving readers room to draw their conclusions without pulling them in any direction. This is a brilliant work.

Innehållsförteckning

List of FiguresIntroduction: Is Africa Rising: Competing Narratives – Darlingtina K EsiakaChapter 1: DR Congo Rising? A Case Study Exploring the Africa Rising Narrative – Ashley E LeinweberChapter 2: Parliamentary Power in a New East Africa – Ryan GibbChapter 3: Terrorism and Ethnic Violence in Northwest Africa: Recent Developments along the Mali-Libya Axis – Stephen HarmonChapter 4: The Evolution of the Political Influence of the Buganda Muslim Community, 1844?1900 – Brenda McCollumChapter 5: Enacting Feminine Respectability: Unpacking a Wardrobe of Malinké, Islamic and Western Styles in Guinea – Erin KennyChapter 6: Exploring Intergenerational Perceptions and Negotiations of Social Support in Nigeria – Kafayat MahmoudChapter 7: Abe J. B. Desmore at Teachers College, Columbia University, 1935?1936: Catalyst to Political Eclipse and Exile, Research in Progress – Richard S. Glotzer Conclusion: Reflections on Africa: Rising or Falling– Jamaine AbidogunAbout the Editors and Contributors